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Plagues in the Making: RFK Jr. guts CDC, comes for your Children’s Health
Donald Trump

Plagues in the Making: RFK Jr. guts CDC, comes for your Children’s Health

Dan Dinello

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment, Feature) – With a Cabinet full of fascists, fools, drunks, and sycophants, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stands out as a […]

“With me along some Strip of Herbage Strown:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:10

“With me along some Strip of Herbage Strown:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:10

09/08/2025 By Juan Cole

Trump threatens UN Visa Ban for Brazil over Pro-Palestine Stance

Trump threatens UN Visa Ban for Brazil over Pro-Palestine Stance

09/08/2025 By Middle East Monitor

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Deepening Inequality Driving US Middle Class into Oblivion

Deepening Inequality Driving US Middle Class into Oblivion

By Deirdre Fulton, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) | – – “The hollowing of the middle has proceeded steadily for four decades, and it may have […]

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Acidification of Oceans
Paris COP21 will only slow Climate Change: Here's What's going to happen to you and your children

Paris COP21 will only slow Climate Change: Here’s What’s going to happen to you and your children

By Katja Frieler | (The Conversation) | – – At the Paris climate summit, delegates are deciding on a global goal for temperature rise. At […]

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Climate Change
Top 10 Signs the US is the Most Corrupt Country in the World

Top 10 Signs the US is the Most Corrupt Country in the World

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Revised Those ratings that castigate Afghanistan and some other poor countries as hopelessly “corrupt” always imply […]

Juan Cole

Foreign Policy
How U.S. Interventions Dismembered the Middle East

How U.S. Interventions Dismembered the Middle East

By Adil E. Shamoo | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – Despite everything, hawks are still pushing President Obama to send ground troops to […]

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Russo-Turkish Conflict over Syria & Iraq Boils: "Manifestations of impotent Rage"

Russo-Turkish Conflict over Syria & Iraq Boils: “Manifestations of impotent Rage”

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Turkish and Russian government have continued their war of words that followed on the shooting […]

Juan Cole

Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
Obama: "Who will rid me of this Troublesome 'caliph'?  Someone? Anyone?

Obama: “Who will rid me of this Troublesome ‘caliph’? Someone? Anyone?

By Peter Van Buren | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – In the many strategies proposed to defeat the Islamic State (IS) by presidential candidates, policymakers, and […]

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Israel
Trump Cancels trip to Israel after Parliamentarians slam him as Neo-Nazi

Trump Cancels trip to Israel after Parliamentarians slam him as Neo-Nazi

By IMEMC | – – After criticism from both the left and the right, Donald Trump tweeted Thursday that he will delay his visit to […]

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American Jews
Mark Zuckerberg Stands With Muslims & Fox goes after Him

Mark Zuckerberg Stands With Muslims & Fox goes after Him

Cenk Uygur | (The Young Turks video report) | & Media Matters | – – 1. Media Matters Tweet: Fox co-hosts attack Mark Zuckerberg over […]

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Iraq
Iraqis wrangle over who should free Mosul: Kurds, Russia, US or Shiite Militias?

Iraqis wrangle over who should free Mosul: Kurds, Russia, US or Shiite Militias?

Iman Asaad | Sulaymaniyah | (Niqash.org) | – – Who would be the best to liberate Mosul from the Islamic State group? A survey of […]

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