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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 […]

Why Conflict Refugees are Particularly Vulnerable to Climate Risks

Why Conflict Refugees are Particularly Vulnerable to Climate Risks

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Is Trump Christian America’s Golden Calf?

Is Trump Christian America’s Golden Calf?

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Israel Guilty of Apartheid, Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians:  UN Rapporteur

Israel Guilty of Apartheid, Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians: UN Rapporteur

(By César Chelala) Richard Falk, United Nations rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories accused Israel last week of “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians. Speaking […]

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Internet
Twitter strikes Back at Turkish Gov't Ban in Courts

Twitter strikes Back at Turkish Gov’t Ban in Courts

TWITTER HAS LAUNCHED a legal challenge against the block placed on its services in Turkey. Turkey effectively put up a wall between it and Twitter last week. Initially travellers to its domain were sent to a government website before a Turkish court…

Juan Cole

Human Rights
Iraqi Women’s Rights Under Threat

Iraqi Women’s Rights Under Threat

(By Erin Evers) Few disagree that the Iraqi government’s increasingly Shia character has alienated its Sunni population—but what has mounting sectarian division meant for the […]

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Egypt
Egypt: Al-Sisi's run for President: Bonapartism and Gulf Oil Money

Egypt: Al-Sisi’s run for President: Bonapartism and Gulf Oil Money

(By Juan Cole) Egypt’s Brig. Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, 59, on Wednesday resigned his military commission and announced that he will run for president. He […]

Juan Cole

Barack Obama
Donald Rumsfeld: A "Trained Ape" would be better at U.S. diplomacy than Obama

Donald Rumsfeld: A “Trained Ape” would be better at U.S. diplomacy than Obama

Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on Monday blasted President Barack Obama’s diplomacy, saying a “trained ape” could do a better job. In an interview with Fox News host Greta Van Susteren, Rumsfeld complained that relations with…

Juan Cole

Domestic Surveillance
Invasion of the Corporate Data Snatchers:  The Internet of Things

Invasion of the Corporate Data Snatchers: The Internet of Things

(By Catherine Crump and Matthew Harwood) Estimates vary, but by 2020 there could be over 30 billion devices connected to the Internet. Once dumb, they […]

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Drones
The Rise of the Drones (Infographic)

The Rise of the Drones (Infographic)

Source: SecurityDegreeHub.com RT America: “New drone steals smartphone contents”

Juan Cole

Climate Change
Israeli Kibbutz uses Robots To Combat Desert Dust that obscures Solar Panels

Israeli Kibbutz uses Robots To Combat Desert Dust that obscures Solar Panels

The humble chore of cleaning solar panels plays a key role in solar cell efficiency, especially in desert regions where frequent dust storms and lack of rain combine to reduce panel output by up to 35 percent. That same lack of rain also presents a…

Juan Cole

Eastern Europe
Is Russia a "Regional Power" or "Geopolitical Threat"?  Obama argues with Romney from the Hague

Is Russia a “Regional Power” or “Geopolitical Threat”? Obama argues with Romney from the Hague

(By Juan Cole) The peculiar American two-party system followed President Obama to the Hague on Tuesday, where he gave a joint press conference with the […]

Juan Cole

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