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The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society (Review)
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The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society (Review)

H. Patricia Hynes

Health inequalities cannot be eliminated without addressing the injustice that contribute to weathering – the physical toll

Mamdani: “For too long in our city, freedom has belonged only to those who can afford to buy it.”

Mamdani: “For too long in our city, freedom has belonged only to those who can afford to buy it.”

01/02/2026 By Common Dreams

Gaza:  Child Killed, Fires, Flooding, and Cold Claim Lives, as Israel restricts Shelter Materials

Gaza: Child Killed, Fires, Flooding, and Cold Claim Lives, as Israel restricts Shelter Materials

01/02/2026 By International Middle East Media Center

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On the superiority of organized masses over desperate men with guns (Martin Luther King Jr Poster)

On the superiority of organized masses over desperate men with guns (Martin Luther King Jr Poster)

Juan Cole

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58 Murders a year by Firearms in Britain, 8,775 in US

58 Murders a year by Firearms in Britain, 8,775 in US

Updated Number of Murders, United States, 2010: 12,996 Number of Murders by Firearms, US, 2010: 8,775 Number of Murders, Britain, 2011*: 638 (Since Britain’s population […]

Juan Cole

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How Long will We let the National Rifle Association and Corrupt Politicians Kill our Children?

How Long will We let the National Rifle Association and Corrupt Politicians Kill our Children?

Police in Aurora, Colorado say that they do not think that James Holmes had an accomplice. Of course he had an accomplice. He had lots […]

Juan Cole

Syria
Free Syrian Army Controls Border Areas

Free Syrian Army Controls Border Areas

Free Syria exists along Syria’s borders with Turkey and Iraq. The Free Syrian Army, somewhat to my surprise, is beginning to take and hold territory, […]

Juan Cole

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“A View Toward Hamamet” Tunisia (Paul Klee Painting)

“A View Toward Hamamet” Tunisia (Paul Klee Painting)

Paul Klee, the Swiss-German modernist painter, experienced epiphanies during the ‘student trip’ he took with two other young artists to Tunisia in 1914. It was […]

Juan Cole

Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam (209) “those oceans of learning never…”

Omar Khayyam (209) “those oceans of learning never…”

Those oceans of learning and culture           who burned with the light  of science in their day,         […]

Juan Cole

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Your Government’s 92 Million Secrets are Safe . . . from You!  (Engelhardt)

Your Government’s 92 Million Secrets are Safe . . . from You! (Engelhardt)

Tom Engelhardt writes at Tomdispatch.com That Makes No Sense! Your Security’s a Joke (and You’re the Butt of It) By Tom Engelhardt When my daughter […]

Juan Cole

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Syria Crisis: Cole on BBC Newshour (Audio Link)

Syria Crisis: Cole on BBC Newshour (Audio Link)

My appearance on BBC’s Newshour re: Syrian developments on Wednesday afternoon. I come in about 8 minutes in, and make comments throughout the rest of […]

Juan Cole

Syria
Top Ten Implications of the Damascus Bombing

Top Ten Implications of the Damascus Bombing

The bombing of the Security Headquarters of the Baath government of Syria on Wednesday killed the Minister of Defense, the deputy Minister of Defense, and […]

Juan Cole

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