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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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What is Congress Suing Obama about?  Drones?  Surveillance? Unauthorized War?  Guess!

What is Congress Suing Obama about? Drones? Surveillance? Unauthorized War? Guess!

RT Redacted Tonight: “House Speaker John Boehner is suing President Obama. Is it for drone bombing or NSA surveillance? Of course not!” RT America: “You […]

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Apartheid
 Gaza’s Schools on the Battlefield (HRW)

Gaza’s Schools on the Battlefield (HRW)

By Bede Sheppard via Human Rights Watch Follow @BedeOnKidRights On July 30 a school in the Jabaliya refugee camp in Gaza run by the United […]

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Washington Condemns Israeli Shelling of UN School w/out Mentioning Israel

Washington Condemns Israeli Shelling of UN School w/out Mentioning Israel

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — … [O]n Wednesday, another 16 people were killed when at least two Israeli tank shells slammed into a UN school in Jabaliya […]

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Internet
Turkish Women Have Last Laugh on Twitter, Reject Gov't Puritanism

Turkish Women Have Last Laugh on Twitter, Reject Gov’t Puritanism

Euronews: ‘ “A woman should not laugh in front of everyone. She should protect her honour.” These were the words which landed Turkey’s Deputy Prime […]

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Apartheid
Gaza and Soweto

Gaza and Soweto

By Juan Cole On June 16, 1976, some 20,000 students rose up to protest in the slum of Soweto on the outskirts of Johannesburg. Here […]

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Impeachment is a Cash Cow (Colbert Report)

Impeachment is a Cash Cow (Colbert Report)

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Israel Lobby
Veiled Mona Lisa, Missiles over Big Ben:  Israeli War Propaganda Hits New Lows

Veiled Mona Lisa, Missiles over Big Ben: Israeli War Propaganda Hits New Lows

By Lior Sternfeld It has been a month since the current war in Gaza started. The number of casualties is beyond our ability to comprehend. […]

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art and photography
Gaza and the Art of War:  Palestinians Illustrate their Suffering

Gaza and the Art of War: Palestinians Illustrate their Suffering

By Mariam Elba via Waging Nonviolence A breathtaking piece of art highlighting the struggles of Palestinians in Gaza (Bushra Shanan) It’s hard to find the […]

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Christianity
In Orgy of Destruction, IS Radicals reduce Ancient Iraqi Holy Sites To Rubble

In Orgy of Destruction, IS Radicals reduce Ancient Iraqi Holy Sites To Rubble

By RFE/RL The Islamic State initially exhibited some restraint after entering northwestern Iraq in June, focusing on establishing control of the territories it held and […]

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