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There’s no Such thing as Someone Else’s Children*
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There’s no Such thing as Someone Else’s Children*

H. Patricia Hynes

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Medford, a city of 60,000 people in Massachusetts, voted to pass an historic ordinance to divest from […]

“Red Wine!” – the Nightingale cries to the Rose: FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:6

“Red Wine!” – the Nightingale cries to the Rose: FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:6

08/27/2025 By Juan Cole

Thugs R Us: How MAGA Uses Violence to Consolidate Power

Thugs R Us: How MAGA Uses Violence to Consolidate Power

08/27/2025 By Andrea Mazzarino

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China
Trump never saw a Wind Farm in China, but Beijing has half of all Installed Wind Capacity and will Eat America’s Lunch in this Industry

Trump never saw a Wind Farm in China, but Beijing has half of all Installed Wind Capacity and will Eat America’s Lunch in this Industry

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The dufus-in-chief perorated on Friday once again on wind power, complaining that the components are made in China but that […]

Juan Cole

Genocide
The Gaza Genocide is still far from being condemned in the West’s Rhetoric

The Gaza Genocide is still far from being condemned in the West’s Rhetoric

( Middle East Monitor ) – While more rhetoric but barely any pressure is raised against the Gaza Humanitarian Fund (GHF) and Israel using the […]

Ramona Wadi

Displaced and Refugees
Comics and Graphic Novels can empower Refugees to tell their Stories on their own Terms

Comics and Graphic Novels can empower Refugees to tell their Stories on their own Terms

By Dominic Davies, City St George’s, University of London and Candida Rifkind, University of Winnipeg (The Conversation) – There are more refugees in the world […]

The Conversation

China
Why China’s Inaction on Palestine and Iran Weakens its Global Standing

Why China’s Inaction on Palestine and Iran Weakens its Global Standing

Karadeniz, Turkiye (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – If China wants to rival the United States, it must stop watching and start acting. Beijing wants […]

Hamdullah Baycar

Donald Trump
Between Two Enemies: Syria’s Silence in the Israel-Iran Conflicts

Between Two Enemies: Syria’s Silence in the Israel-Iran Conflicts

( Aljumhuriya ) – Even as a ceasefire has, for now, calmed tensions between Israel and Iran, Trump’s decision to officially join Israel’s war effort […]

Daanish Faruqi

Cold War
The Trump Team’s Purge of Pentagon Photos Raises Sinister Echoes from the Past

The Trump Team’s Purge of Pentagon Photos Raises Sinister Echoes from the Past

( Tomdispatch.com ) – In early June, the Washington Post published a follow-up to earlier stories on a Trump administration plan to remove thousands of […]

Arnold R. Isaacs

Authoritarianism
Trumpism holds all Men are Created Unequal and most should be Denied Life, Liberty or the Pursuit of Happiness

Trumpism holds all Men are Created Unequal and most should be Denied Life, Liberty or the Pursuit of Happiness

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Declaration of Independence has been made a dead letter by the Trump regime as we celebrate the 249th anniversary […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Paris: Legal Complaint filed against French-Israeli Snipers over Killings of Civilians in Gaza

Paris: Legal Complaint filed against French-Israeli Snipers over Killings of Civilians in Gaza

( Middle East Monitor ) – The International Federation for Human Rights (an international organization based in Paris with the French acronym of FIDH) and […]

Middle East Monitor

racism
Who’s the most American? Psychological Studies show a Bias toward White English-Speakers

Who’s the most American? Psychological Studies show a Bias toward White English-Speakers

By Katherine Kinzler, University of Chicago (The Conversation) – In the U.S. and elsewhere, nationality tends to be defined by a set of legal parameters. […]

The Conversation

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