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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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Beneath the Trump Circus, American Democracy faces up to a vital Challenge

Beneath the Trump Circus, American Democracy faces up to a vital Challenge

By Emma Shortis, RMIT University | – Former US President Donald J Trump has been charged with 34 felony counts in New York. In the […]

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Climate Crisis
The Shift from Pink to Green in Latin America:  Can the United States Become a Green Good Neighbor?

The Shift from Pink to Green in Latin America: Can the United States Become a Green Good Neighbor?

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Gustavo Petro doesn’t just want to transform his own country; he wants to change the world. The new leader of Colombia, […]

John Feffer

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How to Create Positive Change: Danielle Moodie and Wajahat Ali at Progress Network (Video)

How to Create Positive Change: Danielle Moodie and Wajahat Ali at Progress Network (Video)

The Progress Network | How does change actually occur? And what are the best tactics for bringing large coalitions together? Hosts of Democracy-ish, Danielle Moodie […]

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Corruption
US Joins Civilized World:  Trump’s Arraignment for Electoral Corruption is just like former French President Sarkozy’s

US Joins Civilized World: Trump’s Arraignment for Electoral Corruption is just like former French President Sarkozy’s

Revised. Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump’s arraignment today has been widely denounced by the US Right as politically motivated and unprecedented. But high officers […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
As Tax Day Approaches:  Is the Federal Budget Moral or Immoral?

As Tax Day Approaches: Is the Federal Budget Moral or Immoral?

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment) – April, the month tax filings are due, prompts us to ponder what our income taxes pay for.  Are […]

H. Patricia Hynes

Nonviolence
The Tragic U.S. Choice to Prioritize War Over Peacemaking

The Tragic U.S. Choice to Prioritize War Over Peacemaking

( Code Pink ) – In a brilliant Op-Ed published in the New York Times, the Quincy Institute’s Trita Parsi explained how China, with help […]

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

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How Russian and Iranian Drone Strikes further dehumanize Warfare

How Russian and Iranian Drone Strikes further dehumanize Warfare

By Jordan Richard Schoenherr, Concordia University | – Along with the recent reciprocal drone strikes by Iran and the United States in Syria, Russia continues […]

The Conversation

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Many Civil Wars:  The Extremist Israeli Gov't has Roiled Relations with Biden and US Jews and Highlighted the Occupation of Palestine

Many Civil Wars: The Extremist Israeli Gov’t has Roiled Relations with Biden and US Jews and Highlighted the Occupation of Palestine

Oakland, Ca. (Feature: Special to Informed Comment) | – Some 450,000 Israeli protesters massed again this weekend against Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu’s efforts to […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Iraq War
Lying about Lying: Why we must revisit the Definition of ‘Fake News’ from Iraq to Palestine

Lying about Lying: Why we must revisit the Definition of ‘Fake News’ from Iraq to Palestine

Dr Ramzy Baroud RamzyBaroud     The phrase “fake news” continues to be deployed routinely in US politics. In a polarised political atmosphere, both Republicans […]

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