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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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New Wave of Christian Refugees as "Islamic State" Takes Iraq's Largest Christian Town

New Wave of Christian Refugees as “Islamic State” Takes Iraq’s Largest Christian Town

By Middle East Eye “Christians have fled from the largest Christian city in Iraq as the militants of the Islamic State took control. They were […]

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Why is Obama bombing Iraq, Really?

Why is Obama bombing Iraq, Really?

By Juan Cole Al-Zaman reports that a US drone hit mortar emplacements and F-18s struck artillery arrays and armored vehicles deployed by the so-called “Islamic […]

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Displaced and Refugees
Iraq: Yazidis Trapped By Extremists: ‘We Will Run Out Of Food, Water In Two Days’

Iraq: Yazidis Trapped By Extremists: ‘We Will Run Out Of Food, Water In Two Days’

By Khales Joumah | Mosul | via Niqash.org Over the weekend, the Sunni Muslim extremist group, Islamic State, entered the Sinjar area in northern Iraq. […]

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Iraq
The Capital of the Caliphate:  VICE on the so-called "Islamic State" in Syria & Iraq

The Capital of the Caliphate: VICE on the so-called “Islamic State” in Syria & Iraq

By VICE: “The Islamic State, a hardline Sunni jihadist group that formerly had ties to al Qaeda, has conquered large swathes of Iraq and Syria. […]

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Apartheid
Israelis Knocked out Gaza Power Plant, causing Hospital, Bakery and Water Crisis

Israelis Knocked out Gaza Power Plant, causing Hospital, Bakery and Water Crisis

Middle East Eye: “MEE report shows the effect of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza’s power plant, which has severe impact on hospitals, bakers and other vital […]

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Africa
The US helped Break up the Sudan, and now South Sudan Faces Famine

The US helped Break up the Sudan, and now South Sudan Faces Famine

By Nick Turse [This story was reported in partnership with the Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute. Additional funding was provided through the generosity of […]

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Obama & Airstrikes to Protect Iraqi Kurds:  1991 Deja Vu all Over Again

Obama & Airstrikes to Protect Iraqi Kurds: 1991 Deja Vu all Over Again

By Juan Cole During the Gulf War in early 1991, then-president George H. W. Bush called on Iraqis to rise up against Saddam Hussein and […]

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Climate Change
With Warming Lake Water, Toledo's Algae Problem will Get Worse

With Warming Lake Water, Toledo’s Algae Problem will Get Worse

PBS News Hour: “Conversation with Richard Stumpf of NOAA on the science behind the algal bloom.” Stumpf points out that the algae like war water […]

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Apartheid
A Discourse of sexualized violence rises among the Israel Firsters, including on Bill Maher

A Discourse of sexualized violence rises among the Israel Firsters, including on Bill Maher

By Alex Shams BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — As the bombs have been falling on Gaza over the past four weeks, another war has been ongoing for […]

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