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What I saw in Vietnam, 50 Years after the War and Ecocide
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What I saw in Vietnam, 50 Years after the War and Ecocide

H. Patricia Hynes

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – This year 2025 is the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Vietnam from the “American War.”  The […]

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“Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:23

“Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:23

10/31/2025 By Juan Cole

Samhain, the Celtic New Year, and Halloween

Samhain, the Celtic New Year, and Halloween

10/31/2025 By Hugh J. Curran

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Pres. Erdogan sees Syrian Kurds' advance against ISIL as "danger" to Turkey

Pres. Erdogan sees Syrian Kurds’ advance against ISIL as “danger” to Turkey

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The leftist Kurdish Protection Forces (YPG) and their Arab allies, the Euphrates Volcano, continued their assault […]

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Iraq
Next year in Mosul:  Iraqi Kurds cut off ISIL/ Daesh Supply Lines

Next year in Mosul: Iraqi Kurds cut off ISIL/ Daesh Supply Lines

VICE News | (Video report) | – “A year after the Islamic State’s lightning conquest of Iraq’s second-largest city of Mosul, the poorly-trained and equipped […]

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Acidification of Oceans
The Immorality of harming the Earth:  Burning Fossil Fuels is Today's Golden Calf

The Immorality of harming the Earth: Burning Fossil Fuels is Today’s Golden Calf

By Tom Giesen | (Informed Comment) – – In the latter half of the nineteenth century, we began to burn fossil fuels rather casually, without […]

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art and photography
5,000 Hanging Skirts:  How Women Remember War Rape in Kosova

5,000 Hanging Skirts: How Women Remember War Rape in Kosova

By Frances Trix | (Informed Comment) | – – On 12 June, 5,000 skirts and dresses were hung on 45 clotheslines in the football stadium […]

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Colonialism
The Forgotten Costs of War in the Middle East

The Forgotten Costs of War in the Middle East

By David Vine | (Tomdispatch.com) | – First, they tried to shoot the dogs. Next, they tried to poison them with strychnine. When both failed […]

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Can Leftist Kurdish Militia cut ISIL/ Daesh off from Turkish Supply Routes and Kill the Caliphate?

Can Leftist Kurdish Militia cut ISIL/ Daesh off from Turkish Supply Routes and Kill the Caliphate?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The intrepid Liz Sly of the Washington Post gets the story of the attempt of the […]

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Arab Spring
Young Middle East Millennials' Digital Split From Fundamentalism  (Cole Interview)

Young Middle East Millennials’ Digital Split From Fundamentalism (Cole Interview)

Elliot Hill | (TheLipTV Video Interview) | – – “Millennials in the Middle East are forming a clear generational gap between themselves and their elders, […]

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Democratic Party
Bernie Sanders On How We Should Pay For War

Bernie Sanders On How We Should Pay For War

By John Iadarola | (The Young Turks Video Report) | – – “John Iadarola (Think Tank) discusses Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders’ recent policy announcement regarding […]

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Food Security
“The Gaza Kitchen: Cuisine, Resistance, and Remembrance in Palestine” with Laila El-Haddad

“The Gaza Kitchen: Cuisine, Resistance, and Remembrance in Palestine” with Laila El-Haddad

By JULIE POUCHER HARBIN, EDITOR, ISLAMiCommentary Cooking and conflict? It’s a different approach, but it works, and these blended themes still resonate five years after […]

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