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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
United Nations calls for Protection of Climate Activists' Civil Disobedience after German Crackdown on 'Last Generation' as 'Criminal'

United Nations calls for Protection of Climate Activists’ Civil Disobedience after German Crackdown on ‘Last Generation’ as ‘Criminal’

By Sören Amelang | – dpa / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The UN has highlighted the importance of climate activists and their right to hold demonstrations […]

Clean Energy Wire

Climate Crisis
“Politicizing the Weather:” Florida’s DeSantis doesn’t Understand that Carbon Emissions make Hurricanes more Intense, not More Frequent

“Politicizing the Weather:” Florida’s DeSantis doesn’t Understand that Carbon Emissions make Hurricanes more Intense, not More Frequent

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – After his historic meltdown of a presidential campaign announcement with notorious internet troll Elon Musk on a glitchy “Twitter Spaces,” […]

Juan Cole

Death Penalty
"Don't Let them Kill Us:" How the Ayatollahs' Iran became the Execution Capital of the World

“Don’t Let them Kill Us:” How the Ayatollahs’ Iran became the Execution Capital of the World

Newark, Delaware (Special to Informed Comment) – Under the previous Iranian Penal Code or IPC, which was in force until 2013, the charge of mohareb, “Waging […]

Fariba Amini

Sudan
Sudan Conflict: Why a Humanitarian Truce is Proving so hard to Secure – and What that means for People on the Ground

Sudan Conflict: Why a Humanitarian Truce is Proving so hard to Secure – and What that means for People on the Ground

By Nonhlanhla Dube, Lancaster University | – Reports out of Sudan of continuing violence suggest that the seven-day ceasefire organised during talks in Jeddah – […]

The Conversation

Human Rights
Torture, American Style;  and the Cover-UP

Torture, American Style; and the Cover-UP

( Tomdispatch.com ) – In the Blindman’s Buff variation of tag, a child designated as “It” is tasked with tapping another child while wearing a blindfold. […]

Karen J. Greenberg

Climate Crisis
Global Heating could make it too Hot for a Third of Humanity by 2080 – 2100

Global Heating could make it too Hot for a Third of Humanity by 2080 – 2100

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A lot of studies have focused on the economic cost of global heating, caused by humans burning fossil fuels. A […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Confronting Energy Poverty among Palestinians in Israeli-Besieged Gaza

Confronting Energy Poverty among Palestinians in Israeli-Besieged Gaza

by Asmaa Abu Mezied  ( Al-Shabaka ) – Palestinians in Gaza are suffering from a worsening energy crisis due to the Israeli regime’s ongoing siege. As […]

Al-Shabaka

Elections
The 3.6 mn. Syrian Refugees in Turkiye now a Political Football between the Two Leading Candidates

The 3.6 mn. Syrian Refugees in Turkiye now a Political Football between the Two Leading Candidates

Gilbert Achkar ( Middle East Monitor ) – The Turkish election scene is truly disgusting, a scene in which the Syrian refugees have become a […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
The Market Won't Save Us:  How to Rapidly Reduce Deadly Fossil Fuel Use

The Market Won’t Save Us: How to Rapidly Reduce Deadly Fossil Fuel Use

( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – The burning of fossil fuels—oil, coal, natural gas—is responsible for nearly 90 percent of global carbon emissions. Despite […]

John Feffer

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