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We are What we Eat: A Step We all Can take to Fight Climate Breakdown
Climate Crisis

We are What we Eat: A Step We all Can take to Fight Climate Breakdown

H. Patricia Hynes

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Nuclear physicist Edward Teller predicted in 1959 that the risks of burning fossil fuels, by increasing carbon […]

FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 2

FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 2

08/07/2025 By Juan Cole

The Verdict of History: How political Calculations betrayed Gaza

The Verdict of History: How political Calculations betrayed Gaza

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Planned Israeli Detention Camps for Africans Draw Human Rights Protests

Planned Israeli Detention Camps for Africans Draw Human Rights Protests

An Israeli law allowing the arrest and detention of illegal immigrants for up to 3 years without trial has been denounced as contrary to basic […]

Juan Cole

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83 Dead in Syrian Military Repression

83 Dead in Syrian Military Repression

Some 83 Syrians, most of them non-combatants, were killed on Saturday by the Syrian military. In Deraa, the small town in the south of the […]

Juan Cole

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What Americans Sorely Need (Mark Twain Poster)

What Americans Sorely Need (Mark Twain Poster)

Juan Cole

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Faux News & Patriotism (Jamiol Cartoon)

Faux News & Patriotism (Jamiol Cartoon)

Courtesy Paul Jamiol

Juan Cole

Egypt
Thugs Attack Women Demonstrators in Cairo – Whodunit?

Thugs Attack Women Demonstrators in Cairo – Whodunit?

Juan Cole

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Discontent, disturbance and legal failures in Palestine, Tunisia and Turkey (Fitzgibbon)

Discontent, disturbance and legal failures in Palestine, Tunisia and Turkey (Fitzgibbon)

Will Fitzgibbon writes at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism It has been a big week for the NGO heavy-hitters. Three separate investigations in three different […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
The Panetta/ Pakistan War of Words

The Panetta/ Pakistan War of Words

Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has caused a stir by warning US ally Pakistan that Washington’s ‘patience is wearing thin’ with the support for the […]

Juan Cole

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The Great Wall of . . .  Arizona (Miller)

The Great Wall of . . . Arizona (Miller)

Todd Miller writes at Tomdispatch.com Bringing the Battlefield to the Border The Wild World of Border Security and Boundary Building in Arizona By Todd Miller […]

Juan Cole

Syria
Syria and the Rise of the Death Squad

Syria and the Rise of the Death Squad

The fresh Baath massacre of non-combatants, in Qubair on Wednesday, is being assiduously covered up by the government of dictator Bashar al-Assad, who is preventing […]

Juan Cole

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