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Accelerating Climate Change and Global Inequality: Indigenous People were the Heroes of COP30
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Accelerating Climate Change and Global Inequality: Indigenous People were the Heroes of COP30

H. Patricia Hynes

Indigenous and tribal fishing communities on Brazil’s Amazon coast, their survival and livelihoods depends on fishing

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From T. S. Eliot to the Grateful Dead: echoes of FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:26

From T. S. Eliot to the Grateful Dead: echoes of FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:26

11/27/2025 By Juan Cole

Tariffs trickle into Cost of Thanksgiving Dinner, jilting Consumers and Farmers

Tariffs trickle into Cost of Thanksgiving Dinner, jilting Consumers and Farmers

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Kerry sees role for Iran in ISIS war, France joins air campaign

Kerry sees role for Iran in ISIS war, France joins air campaign

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday that Iran had a role to play in a global coalition to tackle ISIS militants, as France […]

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 'We're on edge of large war in MidEast' - Daniel Ellsberg

‘We’re on edge of large war in MidEast’ – Daniel Ellsberg

RT: “With Washington wading into another war in the Middle East, one iconic US whistleblower says Americans are being kept in the dark about the […]

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Changing US-Iran Relations:  Kerry:  Iran has a Role in Defeating ISIL Militants

Changing US-Iran Relations: Kerry: Iran has a Role in Defeating ISIL Militants

by Juan Cole Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday that Iran has a role to play in defeating ISIL. Addressing a meeting of […]

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 The Saddest Story In Mosul: Love In The Time Of The Caliphate

The Saddest Story In Mosul: Love In The Time Of The Caliphate

By Nawzat Shamdeen | Berlin | via Niqash.org All Mosul women must now wear either black or white niqab. A young Mosul man tells NIQASH […]

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Iraq
How does this End?  35 Military Interventions since 1980 and Terrorism Grows

How does this End? 35 Military Interventions since 1980 and Terrorism Grows

Brave New Films: “Since 1980, we have militarily intervened at least 35 times in more than 27 countries. We keep bombing, we continue spending trillions […]

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Iraq
Terrorism craves an audience and we are playing into Islamic State's hands by watching

Terrorism craves an audience and we are playing into Islamic State’s hands by watching

By Akil N Awan, Royal Holloway The well-known US security expert, Brian Jenkins, famously declared in 1974, that “terrorism is theatre”. And over the last […]

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Running out of Time to overrule the 1% on urgent Climate Action

Running out of Time to overrule the 1% on urgent Climate Action

By Rebecca Solnit via Tomdispatch.com There have undoubtedly been stable periods in human history, but you and your parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents never lived through […]

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Climate Change
Education, Health, and Global Warming:  Top 5 Reasons 45% of Scots Wanted to Leave the Right Wing UK

Education, Health, and Global Warming: Top 5 Reasons 45% of Scots Wanted to Leave the Right Wing UK

by Juan Cole The US media coverage of the Scottish referendum is oddly lacking in any reference to actual politics. As usual, the corporate media […]

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Will Independence Harm Scotland's Green Advantage?

Will Independence Harm Scotland’s Green Advantage?

(Bloomberg) –- Renewable energy is found in abundance in Scotland; nearly half of the country’s electricity comes from green sources. But will an independent Scotland […]

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