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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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Christian Sharia Law: Iowa Governor’s Proclamation Destroys Separation Of Church And State

Christian Sharia Law: Iowa Governor’s Proclamation Destroys Separation Of Church And State

  The astroturfed pandemic of Christian self-righteousness continues to plumb new depths, proving that like their Bible, there isn’t a part of the Constitution they won’t ignore, twist, or warp, in an effort to shore up their abjectly amoral personal…

Juan Cole

Barack Obama
Uncle Sam's Eternal Gua-Gulag:  US Continues to Imprison Dozens of Yemenis Cleared or Never Charged

Uncle Sam’s Eternal Gua-Gulag: US Continues to Imprison Dozens of Yemenis Cleared or Never Charged

(Human Rights Watch) (Washington, DC) – The US should expedite the return of Yemeni detainees cleared for release from Guantanamo Bay, Human Rights Watch said […]

Juan Cole

Africa
25 Maps That Will Change The Way You See The World

25 Maps That Will Change The Way You See The World

25 Maps That Will Change The Way You See The World

Juan Cole

CIA
US sent CIA Director as Ambassador to Tehran after CIA overthrew Iran's Democratic gov't  (US now Complaining about Hostage-Taker Amb.)

US sent CIA Director as Ambassador to Tehran after CIA overthrew Iran’s Democratic gov’t (US now Complaining about Hostage-Taker Amb.)

The decision of the Obama administration and the resolution passed by Congress barring entry to Iran’s designated ambassador to the United Nations has angered Tehran […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
Using Ukraine as a Pretext for more Climate Disruption (Naomi Klein)

Using Ukraine as a Pretext for more Climate Disruption (Naomi Klein)

(By Naomi Klein) Published in The Guardian The way to beat Vladimir Putin is to flood the European market with fracked-in-the-USA natural gas, or so […]

Juan Cole

Constitution
Dropbox putting NSA Spying advocate Condi Rice on its board Shocks Privacy Advocates

Dropbox putting NSA Spying advocate Condi Rice on its board Shocks Privacy Advocates

YESTERDAY’S ANNOUNCEMENT that former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has joined the board of Dropbox has set tongues a-wagging in the IT sector. The company said Ms Rice be involved in securing a foothold in international territories, particularly…

Juan Cole

Internet
Standing on the Titanic:  Meaningless Iraq Campaign Posters Provoke Satire, Ridicule on Facebook

Standing on the Titanic: Meaningless Iraq Campaign Posters Provoke Satire, Ridicule on Facebook

(By Kholoud Ramzi, Baghdad, for Niqash) Election posters have become a joke to cynical Iraqi voters. Election campaign posters are telling cynical Iraqi voters nothing […]

Juan Cole

Christians
If Jesus had a wife, would it change the GOP War on Women?

If Jesus had a wife, would it change the GOP War on Women?

(By Juan Cole) A Coptic fragmentary manuscript page that dates back to a few hundred years after Jesus’ death (and the text of which may […]

Juan Cole

Turkish schools abroad victims of AKP-Gulen conflict

Turkish schools abroad victims of AKP-Gulen conflict

The struggle between the AKP and the Gulen movement threatens more than 2,000 Turkish schools abroad, which have been seen as the country’s most “valuable […]

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