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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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Iran
Israel’s Attacks have Exposed Iran’s Weaknesses, but it is in Little Danger of Collapsing

Israel’s Attacks have Exposed Iran’s Weaknesses, but it is in Little Danger of Collapsing

By Farhang Morady, University of Westminster The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has said that his country’s campaign in Iran “could certainly” lead to regime […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
Trump can’t Stop the Green Energy Revolution any More than Horses could Stop the Automobile

Trump can’t Stop the Green Energy Revolution any More than Horses could Stop the Automobile

( Tomdispatch.com ) – He lived over 1,000 years ago, but King Canute’s life still has some important lessons for our own time. After conquering […]

Alfred W. McCoy

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Iran’s Grand Strategy –  Vali Nasr

Iran’s Grand Strategy – Vali Nasr

Book Review: Vali Nasr, “Iran’s Grand Strategy: A Political History”, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2025). Munich (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The Islamic Republic […]

Marc Martorell Junyent

Israel/ Palestine
64 Palestinians in Gaza Killed trying to Reach Aid Centers in 24 Hours

64 Palestinians in Gaza Killed trying to Reach Aid Centers in 24 Hours

( IMEMC ) – Updated: On Wednesday, Day 93 since the resumption of the genocide, Israeli missiles and shells killed and injured dozens of Palestinians […]

International Middle East Media Center

Colonialism
Resistance Works: How Small Groups Took on Great Powers and Won a Victory for Decolonization, Africa, Indigenous Peoples, and More

Resistance Works: How Small Groups Took on Great Powers and Won a Victory for Decolonization, Africa, Indigenous Peoples, and More

David Vine ( Tomdispatch.com ) – At a time when many may feel that good news has gone the way of the dodo, look no […]

David Vine

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Air Campaigns don’t Win Wars on their Own: Why Israel will largely Fail in Iran

Air Campaigns don’t Win Wars on their Own: Why Israel will largely Fail in Iran

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israel’s militarily useless, entirely unprovoked and wholly illegal air war on Iran differs significantly from its previous wars in the […]

Juan Cole

Middle East
America’s Vacillating Mideast Policy: Is anyone in Charge?

America’s Vacillating Mideast Policy: Is anyone in Charge?

( Middle East Monitor ) – US foreign policy in the Middle East appears to be adrift, no longer guided by fixed strategies or clear […]

Ramzy Baroud

Iran
Israel-Iran War: History shows you cannot assassinate your way to Peace

Israel-Iran War: History shows you cannot assassinate your way to Peace

By Matt Fitzpatrick, Flinders University (The Conversation) – In the late 1960s, the prevailing opinion among Israeli Shin Bet intelligence officers was that the key […]

The Conversation

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An Iranian-American View: Tehran will Never Surrender

An Iranian-American View: Tehran will Never Surrender

Out beyond the ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.        –Rumi Like the rest of the world, I […]

Fariba Amini

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