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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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Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Occupation seizes 70 Palestinian Homes in Hebron, will Turn them over to Israeli Squatters

Israeli Occupation seizes 70 Palestinian Homes in Hebron, will Turn them over to Israeli Squatters

( Middle East Monitor ) – Israeli occupation authorities have started plans to confiscate 70 Palestinian homes in the Old City of the southern occupied […]

Middle East Monitor

Conspiracy Theories
DeSantis ramping up his campaign against Disney, accusing it of “Sexualizing Children,” closeness to “Chinese Communism”

DeSantis ramping up his campaign against Disney, accusing it of “Sexualizing Children,” closeness to “Chinese Communism”

  By Michael Moline –   ( Florida Phoenix) – The legal fight between Gov. Ron DeSantis and The Walt Disney Co. broadened Monday when […]

Florida Phoenix

Brazil
Lula is Right that the UN Security Council Can't Resolve Major Conflicts, whether Ukraine or Palestine

Lula is Right that the UN Security Council Can’t Resolve Major Conflicts, whether Ukraine or Palestine

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva made a state visit to Portugal and Spain last week. He was primarily […]

Juan Cole

Arctic
Climate Emergency:  Once Lush Oregon Faces a future of Wildfires, Drought and Vanishing Mountain Glaciers

Climate Emergency: Once Lush Oregon Faces a future of Wildfires, Drought and Vanishing Mountain Glaciers

By: Lynne Terry –   Coastal erosion in Gleneden Beach in March 2021 caused houses to sit on the edge of the cliff. (Courtesy of […]

Oregon Capital Chronicle

Arab Spring
The ‘I am Sudan’ Motto and the elusive Transition to Democracy

The ‘I am Sudan’ Motto and the elusive Transition to Democracy

Dr Mustafa Fetouri MFetouri ( Middle East Monitor ) – On a banner displayed on one of the Sudanese Armed Forces’ Khartoum buildings, a phrase […]

Middle East Monitor

Displaced and Refugees
Singing, trauma and the resilience of the Yazidis  of northern Iraq: The power of cultural identity on psychological well-being

Singing, trauma and the resilience of the Yazidis of northern Iraq: The power of cultural identity on psychological well-being

By Mylène Ratelle, University of Waterloo | – (The Conversation) – Behind each door and gate in Sinuni, Iraq, there is a different story of […]

The Conversation

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Yes, Mr. DeSantis, there is a Palestinian People that has exercised Power in Historical Palestine

Yes, Mr. DeSantis, there is a Palestinian People that has exercised Power in Historical Palestine

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – What does it mean to say that there “has never been a Palestinian state” in the Holy Land? This is […]

Juan Cole

military
Sudan's War of Two Generals: Latest Updates

Sudan’s War of Two Generals: Latest Updates

Written byEgyptian Chronicles The Sudanese capital Khortoum is witnessing intense fighting. Screenshot from a video by AlHadath. Fair use. This story, was originally by Egyptian […]

Global Voices

Anti-intellectualism
“A war on higher education in our state” NC faculty group pens open letter opposing slate of higher ed-related bills

“A war on higher education in our state” NC faculty group pens open letter opposing slate of higher ed-related bills

By: Joe Killian –   ( NC Newsline ) – The North Carolina chapter of the American Association of University Professors released an open letter […]

NC Newsline

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