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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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Why gas stoves matter to the climate – and the gas industry: Keeping them means homes will use gas for heating too

Why gas stoves matter to the climate – and the gas industry: Keeping them means homes will use gas for heating too

By Daniel Cohan, Rice University | Gas stoves are a leading source of hazardous indoor air pollution, but they emit only a tiny share of […]

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China
Climate Change will Supersede Everything: The Pentagon’s Massive Intelligence Failure on China

Climate Change will Supersede Everything: The Pentagon’s Massive Intelligence Failure on China

( Tomdispatch.com) – Given the secrecy typically accorded to the military and the inclination of government officials to skew data to satisfy the preferences of […]

Michael T. Klare

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Is Israel becoming a Middle East Dictatorship under Netanyahu?  110,000 Rally against Gov't

Is Israel becoming a Middle East Dictatorship under Netanyahu? 110,000 Rally against Gov’t

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Some 110,000 Israelis protested Saturday night at two big rallies in Tel Aviv. So reports Al Jazeera. The larger of […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Economic Growth is killing the Planet. How do we Engineer an Alternative?

Economic Growth is killing the Planet. How do we Engineer an Alternative?

( Foreign Policy in Focus) – In 1972, the Club of Rome released a report called The Limits to Growth that laid out the damage […]

John Feffer

Climate Crisis
Desalination could give the Middle East Water without damaging marine Life – but it must be managed carefully

Desalination could give the Middle East Water without damaging marine Life – but it must be managed carefully

By Jonathan Chenoweth, University of Surrey and Raya A. Al-Masr, University of Surrey | – (The Conversation) – More than 2 billion people live in […]

The Conversation

Solar Energy
Solar Plant northwest of Flagstaff expected to Avoid 1 billion pounds of CO2 Emissions each Year

Solar Plant northwest of Flagstaff expected to Avoid 1 billion pounds of CO2 Emissions each Year

By Sydnee Wilson ( Cronkite News ) – FLAGSTAFF – Salt River Project has partnered with Clenera, a private renewable energy company, to bring Arizona […]

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Climate Crisis
Nearly 20% of New Vehicles in California Last Year were Zero-Emission, as Peak Oil nears

Nearly 20% of New Vehicles in California Last Year were Zero-Emission, as Peak Oil nears

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) The office of California Governor Gavin Newsom has announced that nearly 1 in 5 of new vehicles purchased in that state […]

Juan Cole

Haredim
Israel’s new hard-line Government has made Headlines – the bigger demographic Changes that caused it, not so much

Israel’s new hard-line Government has made Headlines – the bigger demographic Changes that caused it, not so much

By Michael Brenner, American University | – Israel’s new goverment is the most right-wing and religious leadership the country has had in the 75 years […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Security Minister Ben-Gvir's Efforts in the Erasure of Palestinian Identity

Israeli Security Minister Ben-Gvir’s Efforts in the Erasure of Palestinian Identity

( Middle East Monitor ) – Tying in to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s statement that “the Jewish people have an exclusive and unquestionable right […]

Ramona Wadi

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