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How the Heartbreaking Story of 5-Year-Old Hind Rajab begot an Effective Human Rights Foundation
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How the Heartbreaking Story of 5-Year-Old Hind Rajab begot an Effective Human Rights Foundation

Dan Steinbock

As The Voice of Hind Rajab is winning over Hollywood, the real-life story is fostering complicity allegations against the Israeli military and Western complicity. New […]

“A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse, and Thou:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:11

“A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse, and Thou:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:11

09/09/2025 By Juan Cole

Gaza Diary: How I risk Death to feed my Family

Gaza Diary: How I risk Death to feed my Family

09/09/2025 By Open Democracy

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Israeli Minister of National Security Ben-Gvir calls for Killing Thousands of Palestinians and Squatting on their Property

Israeli Minister of National Security Ben-Gvir calls for Killing Thousands of Palestinians and Squatting on their Property

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Jordan’s al-Ghad [Tomorrow] newspaper reports from occupied East Jerusalem that on Friday the extremist Israeli Minister of National Security, Itamar […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
World’s Condemnation of Israeli Squatter Attacks on Palestinians is a Cover for Doing Nothing

World’s Condemnation of Israeli Squatter Attacks on Palestinians is a Cover for Doing Nothing

  by Motasem A Dalloul abujomaaGaza ( Middle East Monitor) – Dangerous mobs of extremist Jewish settlers have been rampaging through towns and villages in […]

Middle East Monitor

Antarctica
Fractured Foundations: how Antarctica’s ‘landfast’ Ice is Dwindling and why that’s bad News

Fractured Foundations: how Antarctica’s ‘landfast’ Ice is Dwindling and why that’s bad News

By Alexander Fraser, University of Tasmania; Christine Weldrick, University of Tasmania; Laura Dalman, University of Tasmania; Matthew Corkill, University of Tasmania and Pat Wongpan, University […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Europe’s largest Heat Pump to heat Cologne Homes using Rhine River Water

Europe’s largest Heat Pump to heat Cologne Homes using Rhine River Water

By Sören Amelang | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – Cologne energy supplier RheinEnergie is planning Europe’s largest heat pump that will use energy […]

Clean Energy Wire

Batteries
The Real Project for a New American Century: Ford Receives $9.2 Billion Loan for EV Battery Plants to Counter China

The Real Project for a New American Century: Ford Receives $9.2 Billion Loan for EV Battery Plants to Counter China

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – David Shepardson at Reuters reports that Ford Motor Co. and its partner SK of South Korea have received a $9.2 […]

Juan Cole

Russia
P.O.V:  Negotiate for Peace in Ukraine

P.O.V: Negotiate for Peace in Ukraine

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment) – A sign hung in a Greenfield, Massachusetts storefront window: “Negotiate for Peace in Ukraine” – the most direct […]

H. Patricia Hynes

Biodiversity
Ecological Failure-Loops: Why Ecosystem Collapses may occur much sooner than Expected – New Research

Ecological Failure-Loops: Why Ecosystem Collapses may occur much sooner than Expected – New Research

By John Dearing, University of Southampton; Gregory Cooper, University of Sheffield; and Simon Willcock, Bangor University | – Across the world, rainforests are becoming savanna […]

The Conversation

Sports
Life on the Run: The Angry Sports Star Who Was a Milestone Between Jack Johnson and Brittney Griner

Life on the Run: The Angry Sports Star Who Was a Milestone Between Jack Johnson and Brittney Griner

By Robert Lipsyte ( Tomdispatch.com) – Jim Brown was a monster, not only as a wrecking-ball running back on the football field but also as […]

Tomdispatch

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Another Day, another Israeli Pogrom Against Occupied Palestinians; or, Echoes of the Sudetenland

Another Day, another Israeli Pogrom Against Occupied Palestinians; or, Echoes of the Sudetenland

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A civil war is raging in Israel-Palestine, and the outcome won’t be pretty for anyone, including Americans. Fascist Israeli squatters […]

Juan Cole

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