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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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Saudi Arabia must release Two of its Citizens Jailed for editing Wikipedia

Saudi Arabia must release Two of its Citizens Jailed for editing Wikipedia

By Advox | – ( Globalvoices.org) – Osama Khaled (L) and Ziyad Sufyani (R), two wikipedians who have been sentenced to 32 and 8 years […]

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Climate Crisis
EU, IEA:  Next 10 Years will See Greatest Industrial Transformation of our Times

EU, IEA: Next 10 Years will See Greatest Industrial Transformation of our Times

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Six million workers are employed globally in the $217 billion green energy industry today. But in only 8 years, they […]

Juan Cole

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Is Israel's Netanyahu even worse than Trump?

Is Israel’s Netanyahu even worse than Trump?

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment) – The parallel trajectories of far-far right politicians accruing more power in the US and Israel is striking. Elements […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Authoritarianism
Iranians In Kurdish Sanandaj Renew Call For Regime Change At Gathering To Mark Protester’s Death

Iranians In Kurdish Sanandaj Renew Call For Regime Change At Gathering To Mark Protester’s Death

By Ardeshir Tayebi – ( RFE/RL ) – Iranians in the western city of Sanandaj have marked the end of a 40-day mourning period for […]

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Is America’s bottomless Corporate Welfare for Arms Industry actually Making us Less Safe?

Is America’s bottomless Corporate Welfare for Arms Industry actually Making us Less Safe?

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Late last month, President Biden signed a bill that clears the way for $858 billion in Pentagon spending and nuclear weapons […]

William D. Hartung

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Billionaires Gobbled up 2/3s of New Wealth at $2.7 bn/ day, as 800 million go to bed Hungry: Oxfam

Billionaires Gobbled up 2/3s of New Wealth at $2.7 bn/ day, as 800 million go to bed Hungry: Oxfam

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Oxfam , the British charity, has released a new report finding that the global problem of wealth inequality is growing […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Iran: Brute Force Used in Crackdown on Dissent

Iran: Brute Force Used in Crackdown on Dissent

( Human Rights Watch – (Beirut) – Iranian authorities used excessive and lethal force in their clampdown on nationwide protests that broke out in September […]

Human Rights Watch

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On MLK Day, Let’s Learn the Right Lessons from History

On MLK Day, Let’s Learn the Right Lessons from History

By Svante Myrick | – ( Otherwords.org) Every year, the arrival of the Martin Luther King holiday calls us to pause and reflect on Dr. […]

OtherWords

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Why do so many Turkish people believe ‘Secret Clauses’ in the 1923 Great Power Lausanne Treaty will be unveiled this Year?

Why do so many Turkish people believe ‘Secret Clauses’ in the 1923 Great Power Lausanne Treaty will be unveiled this Year?

By Ozan Ozavci, Utrecht University | – (The Conversation) – Commonly regarded as the “birth certificate” of modern Turkey, the 1923 treaty of Lausanne was […]

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