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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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Inequality
Total U.S. Billionaire Wealth is Up 88 Percent over Four Years

Total U.S. Billionaire Wealth is Up 88 Percent over Four Years

By Chuck Collins and Omar Ocampo | – ( Inequality.org ) – Four years ago, the United States entered the Covid-19 pandemic. Forbes published its […]

Inequality.org

Israel/ Palestine
Echos of our Lost Home in Gaza

Echos of our Lost Home in Gaza

By Haneen Abo Soad | – The author’s four-generation land and home were destroyed by Israeli F16 rockets in January, reducing it to rubble. Photo […]

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Chechnya
Is ISIL attack on Moscow Concert Blowback for Chechnya and Syria?

Is ISIL attack on Moscow Concert Blowback for Chechnya and Syria?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Friday an ISIL terrorist team killed dozens of people and wounded over 145 at the Crocus City Music Hall […]

Juan Cole

Africa
Climate Crisis could drive 200 million Africans to Extreme Hunger by 2050

Climate Crisis could drive 200 million Africans to Extreme Hunger by 2050

By Philip Kofi Adom, University of the Witwatersrand | – (The Conversation) – African countries will suffer significant economic loss after 2050 if global warming […]

The Conversation

Arab Americans
Invisible No More: The Gov’t could Soon include Americans of Middle East and N. African Origin in its Data

Invisible No More: The Gov’t could Soon include Americans of Middle East and N. African Origin in its Data

By Simon Marshall-Shah | ( Michigan Advance ) – Without equitable data systems, governmental policies will always come up short of fairly representing all of […]

Michigan Advance

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Purim at the Time of Genocide

Purim at the Time of Genocide

Montréal (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The Jewish holiday of Purim, related in the Book of Esther, celebrates deliverance from a genocide. How to […]

Yakov M. Rabkin

Donald Trump
Jared Kushner's Shameful Remarks on Gaza: "I would do my best to move the people out"

Jared Kushner’s Shameful Remarks on Gaza: “I would do my best to move the people out”

( Middle East Monitor ) – “It’s unfortunate that no one’s taking in the refugees,” lamented former White House advisor during the Trump administration Jared […]

Ramona Wadi

Donald Trump
If America were a Trumpian Autocracy: The Lies we'd be Told about War (and so much Else)

If America were a Trumpian Autocracy: The Lies we’d be Told about War (and so much Else)

( Tomdispatch.com ) – We should already be talking about what it would be like, if Donald Trump wins the 2024 election, to live under […]

Andrea Mazzarino

Displaced and Refugees
The Prospect of Mass Famine in Gaza is beginning to Change Minds in Washington

The Prospect of Mass Famine in Gaza is beginning to Change Minds in Washington

By Jonathan Este, The Conversation | – (The Conversation) – As the casualty count on the Gaza Strip approaches 32,000 people, in itself a terrible […]

Juan Cole

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