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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 […]

Why Conflict Refugees are Particularly Vulnerable to Climate Risks

Why Conflict Refugees are Particularly Vulnerable to Climate Risks

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Is Trump Christian America’s Golden Calf?

Is Trump Christian America’s Golden Calf?

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On its 75th birthday, Israel still can’t Agree on What it means to be a Jewish State and a Democracy

On its 75th birthday, Israel still can’t Agree on What it means to be a Jewish State and a Democracy

By Eran Kaplan, San Francisco State University | – As Israel celebrates the 75th anniversary of its founding, and nearly a century and a half […]

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The Supreme Court is Corrupt and We don’t Have to Put up with It

The Supreme Court is Corrupt and We don’t Have to Put up with It

By Jim Hightower | — ( Afterwords.org ) – When public officials get themselves mired in the muck of corruption, they can always count on […]

Jim Hightower

China
China and the Axis of the Sanctioned:   How America’s Divide-and-Rule Strategy in the Middle East Backfired

China and the Axis of the Sanctioned: How America’s Divide-and-Rule Strategy in the Middle East Backfired

( Tomdispatch.com) – A photo Beijing released on March 6th of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s foreign minister Wang Yi* delivered a seismic shock in Washington. […]

Juan Cole

Arms Sales
The U.S. Still Spends More on Its Military Than Over 144 Nations Combined

The U.S. Still Spends More on Its Military Than Over 144 Nations Combined

By Ashik Siddique | Originally published in National Priorities Project. ( Foreign Policy in Focus) – World military spending has reached a new record high […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

European Union
The European Union is Struggling to Respond to Biden’s Subsidies for Green Energy

The European Union is Struggling to Respond to Biden’s Subsidies for Green Energy

By Anna Gumbau ( China Dialogue ) – After the economic crisis caused by Covid-19 and the energy crisis caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, […]

China Dialogue

Climate Crisis
Pakistan's Trans Community battles Climate Catastrophe and Exclusion

Pakistan’s Trans Community battles Climate Catastrophe and Exclusion

  Trans people affected by floods in Pakistan’s Balochistan province gather to receive aid from the non-profit Al-Khidmat Foundation, in partnership with Unilever Pakistan (Photo […]

The Third Pole

Donald Trump
DeSantis' Florida as the Epicenter of the New Culture Wars: The Coming Battle for America's Political Soul

DeSantis’ Florida as the Epicenter of the New Culture Wars: The Coming Battle for America’s Political Soul

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The concept of “woke” culture is an existential threat to Republican office holders and party officials. Led […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Authoritarianism
Turkey’s presidential Election – how Erdoğan defied the Polls to head into Runoff as Favorite

Turkey’s presidential Election – how Erdoğan defied the Polls to head into Runoff as Favorite

By Salih Yasun, Indiana University | – Turkey is heading toward a presidential runoff election on May 28, 2023, after no candidate won more than […]

The Conversation

Children
After the Worst April-May Heatwave in History, Indians and Pakistanis must Demand these Urgent Climate Actions

After the Worst April-May Heatwave in History, Indians and Pakistanis must Demand these Urgent Climate Actions

Aditi Mukherji ( The Third Pole ) – When heatwaves disrupt our children’s education, it is time to demand climate action. I am writing this […]

The Third Pole

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