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Plagues in the Making: RFK Jr. guts CDC, comes for your Children’s Health
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Plagues in the Making: RFK Jr. guts CDC, comes for your Children’s Health

Dan Dinello

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment, Feature) – With a Cabinet full of fascists, fools, drunks, and sycophants, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stands out as a […]

“With me along some Strip of Herbage Strown:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:10

“With me along some Strip of Herbage Strown:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:10

09/08/2025 By Juan Cole

Trump threatens UN Visa Ban for Brazil over Pro-Palestine Stance

Trump threatens UN Visa Ban for Brazil over Pro-Palestine Stance

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How America Became a Third World Country (Kramer & Comerford)

How America Became a Third World Country (Kramer & Comerford)

Mattea Kramer and Jo Comerford write at Tomdispatch: The streets are so much darker now, since money for streetlights is rarely available to municipal governments. […]

Juan Cole

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America's 'Mission Accomplished' Legacy to Iraq:  Sectarian Violence Mounts with 95 Dead

America’s ‘Mission Accomplished’ Legacy to Iraq: Sectarian Violence Mounts with 95 Dead

Bombings killed at least 95 people on Monday in Iraq, with 10 car bombs going off in the capital of Baghdad alone. Two car bombs […]

Juan Cole

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Russia’s Lavrov on Solving Syria through Diplomacy (Text of Interview)

Russia’s Lavrov on Solving Syria through Diplomacy (Text of Interview)

The USG Open Source Center translates an interview by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov from Russian, treating Syria and Palestine. Russian Foreign Minister Discusses Syria, […]

Juan Cole

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Storms and Extreme Weather:  The Impact of Climate Change (Videos)

Storms and Extreme Weather: The Impact of Climate Change (Videos)

Any particular storm is weather, not climate. That is, it is a discrete event, whereas climate is a decades-long pattern of such events. But the […]

Juan Cole

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Pakistan, Islam and Democracy

Pakistan, Islam and Democracy

Pakistan, a country 97 percent Muslim, has just made its first successful transition from one elected, civilian government to another since its founding in 1947. […]

Juan Cole

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Renewable Energy in Marrakech: Solar Water Pumps & More (Video)

Renewable Energy in Marrakech: Solar Water Pumps & More (Video)

Morocco has enormous solar and wind energy potential and plans to get 40% of its electricity from green energy sources by 2020, only 7 years […]

Juan Cole

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Tunisia and Libya take on Ansar al-Sharia Militants

Tunisia and Libya take on Ansar al-Sharia Militants

Clashes broke out on Sunday in a western suburb of Tunis and in the city of Kairouan at the Mosque of the Martyrs between Tunisian […]

Juan Cole

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Massive Meteoroid Impact on Moon shines like Small Star (NASA Video)

Massive Meteoroid Impact on Moon shines like Small Star (NASA Video)

That boulder-sized meteoroid that hit the moon on the 17th, causing a star-bright conflagration? NASA reports that it likely was part of a whole pack […]

Juan Cole

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Climate Change Denial is Costing us Trillions, Threatening Farming, Fishing, Animals (Video)

Climate Change Denial is Costing us Trillions, Threatening Farming, Fishing, Animals (Video)

Michael Mann: Climate change is already costing us $1 trillion a year. Aljazeera asks Professor Mann why there is still confusion among Americans about the […]

Juan Cole

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