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We are What we Eat: A Step We all Can take to Fight Climate Breakdown
Climate Crisis

We are What we Eat: A Step We all Can take to Fight Climate Breakdown

H. Patricia Hynes

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Nuclear physicist Edward Teller predicted in 1959 that the risks of burning fossil fuels, by increasing carbon […]

FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 2

FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 2

08/07/2025 By Juan Cole

The Verdict of History: How political Calculations betrayed Gaza

The Verdict of History: How political Calculations betrayed Gaza

08/07/2025 By Ramzy Baroud

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"Pigs! Crusaders!": US-Backed Fundamentalist Militias drive US Commandos out of al-Ray, Syria

“Pigs! Crusaders!”: US-Backed Fundamentalist Militias drive US Commandos out of al-Ray, Syria

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – As Raf Sanchez of The Telegraph writes, fundamentalist militiamen of the US-backed Free Syrian Army chased […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
Is the Native American pipeline resistance in N. Dakota about climate justice?

Is the Native American pipeline resistance in N. Dakota about climate justice?

By Kyle Powys Whyte | (The Conversation) | – – Over the past months, hundreds of indigenous persons and their allies have gathered near the […]

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Guns
Trump: Disarm Sec. Clinton's bodyguards: & "let's see what happens to her."

Trump: Disarm Sec. Clinton’s bodyguards: & “let’s see what happens to her.”

CNN | (Video News Report) | – – “During a Miami rally, Donald Trump wondered aloud what would happen to Hillary Clinton should her Secret […]

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Arms Sales
Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia Must End, Says UK Parliament Report

Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia Must End, Says UK Parliament Report

TeleSur | – – Two parliamentary committees said it was likely Saudi Arabia used U.K. weapons to target civilians, but Tory lawmakers blocked a vote […]

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Authoritarianism
"This Parrot is no More":  The 2016 Presidential Election did not Take Place

“This Parrot is no More”: The 2016 Presidential Election did not Take Place

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) The French sociologist and philosopher Jean Baudrillard wrote a book in 1991 entitled The Gulf War did not Take […]

Juan Cole

Islam-hatred
Muslim-Americans are *Americans* & can’t be Reduced to stage Props for the 2 Parties

Muslim-Americans are *Americans* & can’t be Reduced to stage Props for the 2 Parties

By Raed Jarrar | ( Otherwords.org) Both Democrats and Republicans are spreading the same Islamophobic message: you're either with us, or you're against us. On […]

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Authoritarianism
Endangering the Planet:  Populist New Right opposes Climate Action as much as Immigration

Endangering the Planet: Populist New Right opposes Climate Action as much as Immigration

By Michael T. Klare | ( Tomdispatch.com | – – In a year of record-setting heat on a blistered globe, with fast-warming oceans, fast-melting ice […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Israeli forces evict Palestinian family in East Jerusalem to make room for Israeli Squatters

Israeli forces evict Palestinian family in East Jerusalem to make room for Israeli Squatters

Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces Thursday evicted a Palestinian family from their home in the neighborhood of Saadiya in […]

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Trump-inspired felon allegedly torches Ft. Pierce FL Mosque, says “All Islam is radical”

Trump-inspired felon allegedly torches Ft. Pierce FL Mosque, says “All Islam is radical”

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Joseph Michael Schreiber stands accused of having carried out an arson attack against a mosque in […]

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