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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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Authoritarianism
How Turkey's Opposition Elite enabled Erdoğan and Misled Voters

How Turkey’s Opposition Elite enabled Erdoğan and Misled Voters

Written bySinan Ciddi     ( Globalvoices.org ) – The sources of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s power are vast. In his over twenty years of rule, […]

Global Voices

Anti-intellectualism
Defending Professor Satyel Larson’s Right to Teach her Field freely at Princeton despite Israel Lobbies’ Pressure

Defending Professor Satyel Larson’s Right to Teach her Field freely at Princeton despite Israel Lobbies’ Pressure

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association Christopher Eisgruber President, Princeton University fax: 609-258-1615   Professor Gene Jarrett  Dean of the Faculty, Princeton […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

Crime
Trump joins a long Line of Thuggish Racketeers who took a Defiant Mug Shot that did them no Good, including Al Capone

Trump joins a long Line of Thuggish Racketeers who took a Defiant Mug Shot that did them no Good, including Al Capone

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The tactic of staring sternly into the camera in defiance when having a mug shot taken after being charged and […]

Juan Cole

Propaganda
Saudi Arabia’s Pro League is taking Advantage of Football’s Greed and Inequality

Saudi Arabia’s Pro League is taking Advantage of Football’s Greed and Inequality

By Alan McDougall, University of Guelph | – (The Conversation) – For Liverpool supporters like me, Jordan Henderson was one of football’s good guys. He […]

The Conversation

Uncategorized
Kissinger at 100:  Did Realism really require War Crimes?

Kissinger at 100: Did Realism really require War Crimes?

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Henry Alfred Kissinger turned 100 on May 27th of this year. Once a teenage refugee from Nazi Germany, for many decades […]

Rebecca Gordon

Climate Crisis
As America faces Greatest Threat in Climate Crisis, Yellow-Bellied Republican Candidates Cower in Denial

As America faces Greatest Threat in Climate Crisis, Yellow-Bellied Republican Candidates Cower in Denial

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Neil Vigdor at the NYT focuses on the short moment in the Republican Debate last night when reality intervened in […]

Juan Cole

Far Right
Israeli Media Slams Netanyahu over his accusation that every Little Guerrilla Operation in West Bank is Directed by Iran

Israeli Media Slams Netanyahu over his accusation that every Little Guerrilla Operation in West Bank is Directed by Iran

( Middle East Monitor ) – Israeli media outlets have criticised Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after he accused Iran of directing resistance counterattacks in the […]

Middle East Monitor

Acidification of Oceans
Coral Reefs:  How Human-caused Climate Change poses a dire Threat to the hidden Diversity of aquatic Ecosystems

Coral Reefs: How Human-caused Climate Change poses a dire Threat to the hidden Diversity of aquatic Ecosystems

By Samuel Starko, The University of Western Australia and Julia K. Baum, University of Victoria | – Like the heat waves on land we have […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Climate Change is now throwing at us Every Weapon in its Arsenal, from Heat Domes to Massive Wildfires, to Mega-Hurricanes

Climate Change is now throwing at us Every Weapon in its Arsenal, from Heat Domes to Massive Wildfires, to Mega-Hurricanes

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – For the most part, the earth is heating up just in the way that climate change models from a decade […]

Juan Cole

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