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How the Heartbreaking Story of 5-Year-Old Hind Rajab begot an Effective Human Rights Foundation
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How the Heartbreaking Story of 5-Year-Old Hind Rajab begot an Effective Human Rights Foundation

Dan Steinbock

As The Voice of Hind Rajab is winning over Hollywood, the real-life story is fostering complicity allegations against the Israeli military and Western complicity. New […]

“A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse, and Thou:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:11

“A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse, and Thou:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:11

09/09/2025 By Juan Cole

Gaza Diary: How I risk Death to feed my Family

Gaza Diary: How I risk Death to feed my Family

09/09/2025 By Open Democracy

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Israel has moved 600,000 Squatters onto Palestinian Land in West Bank

Israel has moved 600,000 Squatters onto Palestinian Land in West Bank

By IMEMC News | – – About 600 thousand settlers live in the West Bank and half of them are in Jerusalem district, said the […]

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Immigration
How the GOP's decades of Angry Resentment Led to Frankentrump

How the GOP’s decades of Angry Resentment Led to Frankentrump

By Randall Stephens | (The Conversation) | – – The latest Republican presidential primary debate had it all: denunciations of President Obama, angry rants about […]

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censorship
Can Digital India flourish without Freedom of Speech?  PM Modi in Silicon Valley

Can Digital India flourish without Freedom of Speech? PM Modi in Silicon Valley

Priya Satia | (Huffington Post) | – – The Indian community of Silicon Valley is preparing to welcome Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi with open […]

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Trump Pledges to "Look into" Paranoid Charges of Muslim-American Terror camps

Trump Pledges to “Look into” Paranoid Charges of Muslim-American Terror camps

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Donald Trump has probably benefited so far from giving long stemwinders of a speech on the […]

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Iran
As Iran takes on ISIL/ Daesh, can it avoid the Sectarian Trap?

As Iran takes on ISIL/ Daesh, can it avoid the Sectarian Trap?

By Shahram Akbarzadeh | (Informed Comment) | – – In an obvious attempt to show initiative and good will, President Hassan Rouhani recently declared Iran’s […]

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Children
Rights group: Israelis have killed nearly 2000 Palestinian children since 2000

Rights group: Israelis have killed nearly 2000 Palestinian children since 2000

Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — More than 1,991 Palestinian children have been killed by Israeli forces and extremists since 2000, according […]

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Dissent
A Guru for Our Time:  Eqbal Ahmad and the life of Dissent from Empire

A Guru for Our Time: Eqbal Ahmad and the life of Dissent from Empire

By Stuart Schaar | (Informed Comment) | – – In the early 1960s I was living in Rabat while researching my doctoral dissertation for Princeton […]

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Displaced and Refugees
Refugees from the Phony Caliphate: Iraqis hire People Smugglers to escape Mosul

Refugees from the Phony Caliphate: Iraqis hire People Smugglers to escape Mosul

Special Correspondent | (Niqash.org) | – – Hassan Hafouzi* and his family paid people smugglers so they could leave Mosul, the city controlled by the […]

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How GOP Candidates would Deal with Syria, Short Version

How GOP Candidates would Deal with Syria, Short Version

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Political Satire In the course of the second GOP debate at CNN, anchor Jake Tapper asked […]

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