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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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Will it Never Stop?  From Forever War to Eternal War

Will it Never Stop? From Forever War to Eternal War

( Tomdispatch.com ) – “It is time,” President Biden announced in April 2021, “to end the forever war” that started with the invasion of Afghanistan […]

Karen J. Greenberg

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Thousands of Fascist Israeli Militiamen, led by Cabinet members, march in Palestinian West Bank for Illegal Squatter-Settlement, as 27 Palestinians are Wounded and 100 are Tear-gassed

Thousands of Fascist Israeli Militiamen, led by Cabinet members, march in Palestinian West Bank for Illegal Squatter-Settlement, as 27 Palestinians are Wounded and 100 are Tear-gassed

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that on Monday about 17,000 Israeli squatters marched through the Palestinian West Bank to […]

Juan Cole

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20 Years After Deadly US Attack, Free Press Still Threatened in Iraq

20 Years After Deadly US Attack, Free Press Still Threatened in Iraq

Sarah Sanbar Iraq Researcher, Middle East and North Africa Division   @SarahSanbar ( Human Rights Watch ) – April 8 is a day that lives […]

Human Rights Watch

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Climate Emergency: As Heat-Related Deaths Soar in Arizona, Groups Launch Tree-Planting Intitiatives

Climate Emergency: As Heat-Related Deaths Soar in Arizona, Groups Launch Tree-Planting Intitiatives

The blue palo verde is Arizona’s state tree. Several are shown in a neighborhood in North Phoenix. (Photo by Emily Mai/Cronkite News) By Jeremy Yurow/Cronkite […]

Cronkite News Arizona PBS

Climate Crisis
The untapped Power of Ocean Winds – why New Zealand is looking Offshore for future renewable Energy

The untapped Power of Ocean Winds – why New Zealand is looking Offshore for future renewable Energy

By Craig Stevens, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research | – The latest synthesis report released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) […]

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Donald Trump
Trumpism Triumphant: Tennessee GOP Expulsion of Black Reps. shows Rot of Racism

Trumpism Triumphant: Tennessee GOP Expulsion of Black Reps. shows Rot of Racism

Oakland, Ca. (Feature; Special to Informed Comment) – The demonstration on the floor of the Tennessee Legislature on March 30 was not an insurrection, such […]

H. Scott Prosterman

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Adam Lenhart:  "Two Scenes from the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám" (Concert)

Adam Lenhart: “Two Scenes from the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám” (Concert)

Adam Lenhart Music: “Two Scenes from The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám – University of Michigan 2023 CoLab Concert Performance” Two Scenes from The Rubáiyát of […]

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In Turkey, will one man continue to rule them all? The May 14th elections hold the answer

In Turkey, will one man continue to rule them all? The May 14th elections hold the answer

Written byArzu Geybullayeva     ( Globalvoices.org) – May 14 will go down in the history of Turkish Republic as one of the most important […]

Arzu Geybullayeva

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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

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