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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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Sean Hannity Pwned by Patricia Bynes when he tries to "Educate" Her

Sean Hannity Pwned by Patricia Bynes when he tries to “Educate” Her

The Young Turks: “A Ferguson, Mo. official was having none of Fox News host Sean Hannity’s attempt to “educate” her on police brutality Wednesday night. […]

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African-Americans
It's not Fergustan:  Ferguson is what America Looks Like

It’s not Fergustan: Ferguson is what America Looks Like

AJ+ People around the world have watched Ferguson, Missouri in disbelief that what they’re seeing is taking place in the United States. But Ferguson is […]

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Israel
Gaza needs UN Peacekeepers, Now!  How to Break the Israel/Palestine Stalemate

Gaza needs UN Peacekeepers, Now! How to Break the Israel/Palestine Stalemate

By John V. Whitbeck After the breakdown in the six-day “pause” to permit negotiations on a long-term Israeli-Palestinian ceasefire and the resumption of Israel’s onslaught […]

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Barack Obama
Obama's budding Cambodia Policy in Syria

Obama’s budding Cambodia Policy in Syria

By Juan Cole Former British ambassador to the United States Sir Christoher Meyer is advocating that the US and Western Europe stop advocating the overthrow […]

Juan Cole

Islam
Failed US War on Terror resulted from bizarre search for Moderate Jihadis

Failed US War on Terror resulted from bizarre search for Moderate Jihadis

By Patrick Cockburn via Tomdispatch.com [This essay is excerpted from the first chapter of Patrick Cockburn’s new book, The Jihadis Return: ISIS and the New Sunni […]

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Iran
Can You pass the Iran Quiz?

Can You pass the Iran Quiz?

By Jeffrey Rudolph What can possibly justify the relentless U.S. political and economic aggression against Iran? It cannot be argued that Iran is an aggressive […]

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Democracy
Democracy, in India as elsewhere, is not a tyranny of the Majority

Democracy, in India as elsewhere, is not a tyranny of the Majority

It’s Not About The Numbers There is a broader—and deeper—meaning to democracy. Part of that ideal is the idea that every tessera in the mosaic […]

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Energy
Iraq:  If Terrorists hit Southern Iraq oil fields, $5-$7 a gallon Gas?

Iraq: If Terrorists hit Southern Iraq oil fields, $5-$7 a gallon Gas?

By Juan Cole Iraq’s former oil minister, Ibrahim Bahr al-Ulum, warned on Thursday that the so-called “Islamic State” terrorist organization could hit the Iraqi oil […]

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Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
How will Obama and the US respond to IS's murder of James Foley ?

How will Obama and the US respond to IS’s murder of James Foley ?

Channel 4 News: “Islamic State releases a video showing the murder of US journalist James Foley, apparently at the hands of a British jihadi fighter. […]

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