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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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Domestic Surveillance
Correa on Smearing of Snowden:  “The World Order is not only unjust, it is immoral”

Correa on Smearing of Snowden: “The World Order is not only unjust, it is immoral”

The USG Open Source Center gives highlights from the Ecuadorean press on the issue of asylum for Edward Snowden. It includes a translation of President […]

Juan Cole

US politics
Did the Supreme Court strike down DOMA because it was Theocratic?

Did the Supreme Court strike down DOMA because it was Theocratic?

The Supreme Court decision authored by Justice Kennedy spends a lot of time arguing that marriage is a matter for the states to regulate, and […]

Juan Cole

al-Qaeda
Texas Near-Ban on Abortion foiled by People's 'Gallery Filibuster'

Texas Near-Ban on Abortion foiled by People’s ‘Gallery Filibuster’

This is the “gallery filibuster” — shouting by pro-choice advocates in the Senate halls after Democratic Sen. Wendy Davis’s filibuster was shut down– that so […]

Juan Cole

Russia
Snowden:  Top Ten Signs that Putin might not be on Washington’s Side

Snowden: Top Ten Signs that Putin might not be on Washington’s Side

The American political class and corporate press professed itself shocked, shocked, when Russian President Vladimir Putin declined to order the arrest Edward Snowden, marooned in […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Critics: Obama’s Climate Plan a Day Late and a Penny Short (Lazare)

Critics: Obama’s Climate Plan a Day Late and a Penny Short (Lazare)

President should renounce “all of the above” energy strategy and nation's reliance on dirty fossil fuels, say environmentalists – Sarah Lazare, staff writer, Commondreams Environmentalists […]

Juan Cole

Domestic Surveillance
NSA says they can’t reveal if they Spied on You because it would ‘Help Our Enemies’ (Larson)

NSA says they can’t reveal if they Spied on You because it would ‘Help Our Enemies’ (Larson)

Jeff Larson writes at ProPublica Shortly after the Guardian and Washington Post published their Verizon and PRISM stories, I filed a freedom of information request […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Egypt's 'Rebellion' Movement Plans Protests as Generals Warn they'll Intervene

Egypt’s ‘Rebellion’ Movement Plans Protests as Generals Warn they’ll Intervene

Egypt is facing its severest crisis since the January-February 2011 revolution against dictator Hosni Mubarak as the country moves toward nation-wide protests on June 30. […]

Juan Cole

Qatar
Millennials take over Qatar, but Real Change has Yet to be Accomplished

Millennials take over Qatar, but Real Change has Yet to be Accomplished

The quirky Emir of Qatar since the mid-1990s, Sheikh Hamad b. Issa al-Thani, stepped down in favor of his fourth son, Tamim, 33, this morning. […]

Juan Cole

al-Qaeda
The Syrian War comes to Lebanon as Sidon Explodes into Violence

The Syrian War comes to Lebanon as Sidon Explodes into Violence

The Syrian civil war spilled over onto Lebanon dramatically on Sunday and again on Monday morning when violent clashes broke out between the Salafi militia […]

Juan Cole

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