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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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90 Seconds to Midnight:  The Doomsday Clock and Me

90 Seconds to Midnight: The Doomsday Clock and Me

(Tomdispatch.com ) – I’m not a TikTok person. I’m too old. But when I finally ventured onto that popular but much-maligned app, which traffics in […]

Frida Berrigan

Authoritarianism
Leaked Pentagon Report: Israeli Intel Agency Mossad Agitated against Netanyahu's weakening of Courts

Leaked Pentagon Report: Israeli Intel Agency Mossad Agitated against Netanyahu’s weakening of Courts

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – John Hudson and Louisa Loveluck at the Washington Post report that a leak of Pentagon documents reveals that the U.S. […]

Juan Cole

Far Right
Physicians:  Ruling banning Abortion Pill could harm Women experiencing Life-threatening  Miscarriages

Physicians: Ruling banning Abortion Pill could harm Women experiencing Life-threatening Miscarriages

By Kelcie Moseley-Morris and Sofia Resnick   A Texas federal judge with a history of anti-abortion beliefs has thrown into jeopardy the most common form […]

Minnesota Reformer

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Opposition Leader Lapid Blames PM Netanyahu for Putting Extremist over al-Aqsa Mosque as 140,000 Palestinians Defiantly Worship

Israeli Opposition Leader Lapid Blames PM Netanyahu for Putting Extremist over al-Aqsa Mosque as 140,000 Palestinians Defiantly Worship

( Middle East Monitor ) – Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid on Friday accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of causing a disaster by assigning […]

Middle East Monitor

Antarctica
New Research shows how rapidly Ice Sheets can Retreat: Antarctica’s Melt alone could raise Sea Level 171 Feet

New Research shows how rapidly Ice Sheets can Retreat: Antarctica’s Melt alone could raise Sea Level 171 Feet

By Christine Batchelor, Newcastle University and Frazer Christie, University of Cambridge | – The Antarctic Ice Sheet, which covers an area greater than the US […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
The last Time there was this much CO2, there were Sabertooth Tigers, California Monsoons and an Undersea Florida

The last Time there was this much CO2, there were Sabertooth Tigers, California Monsoons and an Undersea Florida

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – – The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports that for the 11th consecutive year, human-caused emissions of carbon dioxide and […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Netanyahu Brought Israeli Extremists to Power and Seeks more Arab Recognition;  He can’t have Both

Netanyahu Brought Israeli Extremists to Power and Seeks more Arab Recognition; He can’t have Both

Dr Adnan Abu Amer AdnanAbuAmer2   There are concerns in Israel that the path towards normalisation with more Arab countries is no longer smooth in […]

Middle East Monitor

Corruption
Clarence Thomas and the Billionaire

Clarence Thomas and the Billionaire

By Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott and Alex Mierjeski ( ProPublica) – In late June 2019, right after the U.S. Supreme Court released its final opinion […]

ProPublica

Climate Crisis
Environmental NGO wins greenwashing lawsuit against French Oil Co.  TotalEnergies SE

Environmental NGO wins greenwashing lawsuit against French Oil Co. TotalEnergies SE

By Carolina Kyllmann | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – Climate Action Germany (DUH) has won a lawsuit against TotalEnergies over “climate-neutral” and “CO2-compensated” […]

Clean Energy Wire

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