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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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Authoritarianism
President Erdogan has Wrecked Turkey's Economy - So What Next?

President Erdogan has Wrecked Turkey’s Economy – So What Next?

By Gulcin Ozkan, King’s College London | – (The Conversation) – Turkey’s 2023 election is one of the most significant in its hundred-year history. After […]

The Conversation

Authoritarianism
Tunisia: Move to Dismantle Country's Largest Opposition Party

Tunisia: Move to Dismantle Country’s Largest Opposition Party

( Human Rights Watch ) – (Tunis) – Tunisian authorities have intensified their attack on opponents of President Kais Saied’s 2021 power grab, moving to […]

Human Rights Watch

Climate Crisis
Good Climate News: New EPA Rule would make Fossil Fuel Plants cut Emissions 90% by 2040

Good Climate News: New EPA Rule would make Fossil Fuel Plants cut Emissions 90% by 2040

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Michael S. Regan, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, announced on Thursday the most ambitious limits on how much […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
The Nakba at 75 – Palestinians’ Struggle to get Recognition for their Catastrophe

The Nakba at 75 – Palestinians’ Struggle to get Recognition for their Catastrophe

By Maha Nassar, University of Arizona | – On May 15, 2023, the United Nations will stage a high-level special meeting to commemorate the 75th […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Gaza and the Illegal Israeli use of Sanctions as a Tool for Collective Punishment

Gaza and the Illegal Israeli use of Sanctions as a Tool for Collective Punishment

Dr Mustafa Fetouri MFetouri     International humanitarian law derived from the Geneva Convention of 1949 and the 1977 Protocols, states clearly that no person […]

Middle East Monitor

Artificial Intelligence
Who will Inherit the Earth?  The Rise of AI and the Human Future (?)

Who will Inherit the Earth? The Rise of AI and the Human Future (?)

( Tomdispatch.com ) – After almost 79 years on this beleaguered planet, let me say one thing: this can’t end well. Really, it can’t. And […]

Tom Engelhardt

Climate Crisis
Long Beach Plans a 400-Acre Facility for Floating Offshore Wind Turbines, Largest in World

Long Beach Plans a 400-Acre Facility for Floating Offshore Wind Turbines, Largest in World

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – City News Service reports that Long Beach is planning a 400-acre facility to manufacture and install offshore floating wind turbines […]

Juan Cole

Democracy
Turkey's Opposition Chief is Leading in the Polls, but Sunday's Election is a Cliffhanger

Turkey’s Opposition Chief is Leading in the Polls, but Sunday’s Election is a Cliffhanger

By Balki Begumhan Bayhan, Coventry University | – (The Conversation) – Turkey’s general election on Sunday, May 14 will see voters cast their ballots for […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Our Climate Crisis: The Ultra-Wealthy have a Private Jet Problem, Therefore so do We

Our Climate Crisis: The Ultra-Wealthy have a Private Jet Problem, Therefore so do We

Blogging Our Great Divide by Omar Ocampo       ( Inequality.org ) – The past two years have been a bonanza for private aviation. […]

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