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There’s no Such thing as Someone Else’s Children*
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There’s no Such thing as Someone Else’s Children*

H. Patricia Hynes

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Medford, a city of 60,000 people in Massachusetts, voted to pass an historic ordinance to divest from […]

“Red Wine!” – the Nightingale cries to the Rose: FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:6

“Red Wine!” – the Nightingale cries to the Rose: FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:6

08/27/2025 By Juan Cole

Thugs R Us: How MAGA Uses Violence to Consolidate Power

Thugs R Us: How MAGA Uses Violence to Consolidate Power

08/27/2025 By Andrea Mazzarino

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Jerusalem: Israeli forces, extremist Jews, storm Aqsa mosque compound

Jerusalem: Israeli forces, extremist Jews, storm Aqsa mosque compound

JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces broke into Al-Aqsa mosque compound Sunday morning firing stun grenades and rubber-coated steel bullets at Muslim worshipers as they cleared […]

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Turkey's new "war on terror" mainly targeting Kurds

Turkey’s new “war on terror” mainly targeting Kurds

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – What was at first announced as a new Turkish turn toward attacks on Daesh (ISIS, ISIL) […]

Juan Cole

Democratic Party
Is this how the Establishment takes down Outsiders like Bernie Sanders?

Is this how the Establishment takes down Outsiders like Bernie Sanders?

Thom Hartmann | (Video report) | – – “Thom Hartmann shares about media coverage of a new Quinnipiac poll, but the coverage leaves out some […]

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Climate Change
Climate Change Dunnit:  The Case of the missing Woolly Mammoths

Climate Change Dunnit: The Case of the missing Woolly Mammoths

By Chris Turney and Alan Cooper | (The Conversation) | – – Imagine a world populated by woolly mammoths, giant sloths and car-sized armadillos – […]

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Iran
Iraqis Divided on Iran Deal: Sunnis say, “The US sold us to Iran”

Iraqis Divided on Iran Deal: Sunnis say, “The US sold us to Iran”

Mustafa Habib | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | – – While the rest of the world debates the merits of the Iranian nuclear deal, Iraqis are […]

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Africa
Obama Walks Fine Line in Kenya on LGBTI Rights

Obama Walks Fine Line in Kenya on LGBTI Rights

By Aruna Dutt | (Inter Press Service) | – – UNITED NATIONS, Jul 25 2015 (IPS) – U.S. President Barack Obama spoke in Nairobi at […]

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Barack Obama
Obama in Kenya:  Why the Horn of Africa Matters to Geopolitics

Obama in Kenya: Why the Horn of Africa Matters to Geopolitics

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – President Obama’s visit to Kenya is of course personal, though he has been there before both […]

Juan Cole

Arab Spring
Young Protesters Languish in Jail under Egypt's Military Counter-Revolution

Young Protesters Languish in Jail under Egypt’s Military Counter-Revolution

By Nelly Bassily | ( openDemocracy) | – – Yara Sallam is starting the second year of her sentence in Qanater Women’s prison outside Cairo. […]

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Far Right
White non-terrorist La. Cinema Shooter Loved Hitler, Hated Liberals

White non-terrorist La. Cinema Shooter Loved Hitler, Hated Liberals

John Iadarola, Jimmy Dore, Jayar Jackson, Michael Shure | (The Young Turks Video) | – – “A day after the shooting in Lafayette, Louisiana we […]

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