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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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Israel/ Palestine
Gaza War:  Tunnels, Targets and Rockets: Hamas/ IJ Strategy & Tactics

Gaza War: Tunnels, Targets and Rockets: Hamas/ IJ Strategy & Tactics

Editor’s Note: Even Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas asked Hamas sarcastically what they expected to achieve with rocket attacks on Israel. As Human Rights Watch notes, […]

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American Jews
Quashing Jewish Dissent on Israel

Quashing Jewish Dissent on Israel

By Shalom Goldman A New Yorker cartoon of a few years back shows Moses and the Israelites crossing the Red Sea. Looking at Moses, one […]

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Economy
How its Iran Sanctions hurt US Economy: Cutting off your Nose to Spite Your Face

How its Iran Sanctions hurt US Economy: Cutting off your Nose to Spite Your Face

The National Iranian American Council There are very few studies measuring the cost of sanctions to the sanctioning countries. In the case of Iran, where […]

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Climate Change
Electric Auto Sales Skyrocket as Oil Price Rises on Iraq, Libya Woes

Electric Auto Sales Skyrocket as Oil Price Rises on Iraq, Libya Woes

By Christopher DeMorro It’s no secret that electric vehicle sales are on the rise, but it seems that EV sales may have hit a turning […]

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Rand Paul to Rick Perry: Why Send US Troops to an Iraq that Won't Defend Self?

Rand Paul to Rick Perry: Why Send US Troops to an Iraq that Won’t Defend Self?

By Juan Cole Texas Gov. Rick Perry, apparently considering another run for president (assuming he can remember to do it), attacked Rand Paul as an […]

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Climate Change
Brad Pitt Foundation to Build Solar Homes for Native Americans

Brad Pitt Foundation to Build Solar Homes for Native Americans

Native News Online reports that Brad Pitt’s Make it Right foundation will build solar-powered homes for Native Americans in Montana. —– Related video added by […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Israel and Palestine: An Animated Introduction

Israel and Palestine: An Animated Introduction

“Easy to understand, historically accurate Jewish Voice for Peace mini- primer about why Israelis and Palestinians are fighting, why the US-backed peace process has been […]

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Israel
Netanyahu's Bad Faith: From Gag orders to War as Bread and Circuses

Netanyahu’s Bad Faith: From Gag orders to War as Bread and Circuses

By Carlyn Meyer In a stunning revelation published by the Jewish daily news magazine, Forward, JJ Goldberg uncovers an almost pathological new low for PM […]

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Bill of Rights
Helpless Giant:  How Imperial US Elites Tied America Down All by Themselves

Helpless Giant: How Imperial US Elites Tied America Down All by Themselves

By Tom Engelhardt via Tomdispatch For America’s national security state, this is the age of impunity.  Nothing it does — torture, kidnapping, assassination, illegal surveillance, […]

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