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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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“Some say the World will End in Fire, some say in Ice”: Life in a Climate-Destabilized California

“Some say the World will End in Fire, some say in Ice”: Life in a Climate-Destabilized California

( Tomdispatch.com ) – It was January 1983 and raining in San Francisco. The summer before, I’d moved here from Portland, Oregon, a city known […]

Rebecca Gordon

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Why is the Biden Administration So Worried about Israel's New Government? (Juan Cole Video Interview)

Why is the Biden Administration So Worried about Israel’s New Government? (Juan Cole Video Interview)

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – I am interviewed by prominent journalist Steve Clemons, editor at large of the global news site Semafor, for his Al […]

Juan Cole

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How Russians, Indigenous People and Belarusians are uniting to resist the War in Ukraine

How Russians, Indigenous People and Belarusians are uniting to resist the War in Ukraine

By Eleftheria Kousta | – ( Waging Nonviolence ) – Anastasia Witts, a U.K.-based arts producer, wasn’t yet out of bed on the morning of […]

Waging Nonviolence

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Western Wildfires destroyed 246% more Homes and Buildings over the past Decade –  Scientists explain Why

Western Wildfires destroyed 246% more Homes and Buildings over the past Decade – Scientists explain Why

By Philip Higuera, University of Montana; Jennifer Balch, University of Colorado Boulder, Maxwell Cook, University of Colorado Boulder; and Natasha Stavros, University of Colorado Boulder […]

The Conversation

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Rooftop Solar Soared 40% (3 Gigawatts) in Germany Last Year, as Families Flee Unstable Russian Fossil Fuels

Rooftop Solar Soared 40% (3 Gigawatts) in Germany Last Year, as Families Flee Unstable Russian Fossil Fuels

By Benjamin Wehrmann | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – Solar PV expansion in Germany jumped 28 percent in 2022, with 7.2 gigawatts (GW) […]

Clean Energy Wire

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Edwards Air Force Base Near LA to host Largest Solar-plus-storage Project in the World

Edwards Air Force Base Near LA to host Largest Solar-plus-storage Project in the World

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Edwards Air Force Base in Kern County, California, near Los Angeles and San Bernardino, is now home to the largest […]

Juan Cole

African-Americans
Faustian Bargain: On pretext of Israel, Republicans oust Ilhan Omar from Committee to please White Nationalist Base

Faustian Bargain: On pretext of Israel, Republicans oust Ilhan Omar from Committee to please White Nationalist Base

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment) – Congressional Republicans are more interested in grandstanding than governance, and political persecution rather than functional democracy. The banishment […]

H. Scott Prosterman

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How local Peace Work changes Culture, Town by Town, Generation by Generation

How local Peace Work changes Culture, Town by Town, Generation by Generation

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment) – Signs abound in Greenfield, Massachusetts’ downtown shop windows, among them PEACE, ART NOT WAR, FOOD FOR ALL NOT […]

H. Patricia Hynes

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Why the Violence between Israel and the Palestinians may be entering a devastating new Phase

Why the Violence between Israel and the Palestinians may be entering a devastating new Phase

By Susan de Groot Heupner, Griffith University | – (The Conversation) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken rushed to the Middle East last week […]

The Conversation

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