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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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Christianity
Pope and Pastor: "Prince of Peace rejected by the futile Logic of War;" "Christ in the Rubble"

Pope and Pastor: “Prince of Peace rejected by the futile Logic of War;” “Christ in the Rubble”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – My mother was a Lutheran and the Coles were Catholics, though my grandfather fell away when he married a woman […]

Juan Cole

Dissent
From BLM to Gaza:  Inside the Youth-led fight for a Demilitarized Future

From BLM to Gaza: Inside the Youth-led fight for a Demilitarized Future

By Alessandra Bergamin | – ( Waging Nonviolence ) – In January 2020, Dissenters — a grassroots, youth-led antiwar movement — began with the mission […]

Waging Nonviolence

Climate Crisis
In First, Britain Likely Generated more Electricity from Wind/Water/Hydro than Fossil Fuels in 2023

In First, Britain Likely Generated more Electricity from Wind/Water/Hydro than Fossil Fuels in 2023

By Grant Wilson, University of Birmingham; Joseph Day, University of Birmingham; and Katarina Pegg | – There are many milestones to pass in the transition […]

The Conversation

Christianity
A Merry Muslim Christmas from India’s Hyderabad, c. 1630: Jesus, the Dutch, and Diamonds

A Merry Muslim Christmas from India’s Hyderabad, c. 1630: Jesus, the Dutch, and Diamonds

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The nativity of the Christ child is not solely an occasion of Christian spirituality, but has been celebrated through the […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
No, Gaza's al-Shifa Hospital was not a Hamas Command Center; Biden endorsed an Israeli Lie

No, Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital was not a Hamas Command Center; Biden endorsed an Israeli Lie

By Jake Johnson | – ( Commondreams.org) – The Israeli military launched a deadly assault on Gaza’s largest hospital last month on the grounds that […]

Common Dreams

Israel/ Palestine
What are the Motivations behind Israel's Genocide in Gaza, and what is the Way Forward?

What are the Motivations behind Israel’s Genocide in Gaza, and what is the Way Forward?

Yoav Litvin is an Israeli-American doctor of psychology/neuroscience, a writer and photographer. ( AlJazeera ) – On October 7, Hamas fighters breached the Gaza prison […]

Yoav Litvin

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Israelis have killed the same Percentage of Gazans in 11 Weeks as Allies did Italians in all of WW II

Israelis have killed the same Percentage of Gazans in 11 Weeks as Allies did Italians in all of WW II

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The UN reports figures from the Gaza Ministry of Health as of Friday: “between 7 October and 7:00 on 22 […]

Juan Cole

censorship
Meta (Facebook and Instagram) is Systemically Censoring Palestine Content

Meta (Facebook and Instagram) is Systemically Censoring Palestine Content

Human Rights Watch – (New York) – Meta’s content moderation policies and systems have increasingly silenced voices in support of Palestine on Instagram and Facebook in […]

Human Rights Watch

Plutocracy
A “Delicate Matter”: Clarence Thomas’ Private Complaints About Money Sparked Fears among Rich that He Would Resign

A “Delicate Matter”: Clarence Thomas’ Private Complaints About Money Sparked Fears among Rich that He Would Resign

By Justin Elliott, Joshua Kaplan, Alex Mierjeski and Brett Murphy | – ( ProPublica ) – Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ decadeslong friendship with real […]

ProPublica

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