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Plagues in the Making: RFK Jr. guts CDC, comes for your Children’s Health
Donald Trump

Plagues in the Making: RFK Jr. guts CDC, comes for your Children’s Health

Dan Dinello

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment, Feature) – With a Cabinet full of fascists, fools, drunks, and sycophants, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stands out as a […]

“With me along some Strip of Herbage Strown:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:10

“With me along some Strip of Herbage Strown:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:10

09/08/2025 By Juan Cole

Trump threatens UN Visa Ban for Brazil over Pro-Palestine Stance

Trump threatens UN Visa Ban for Brazil over Pro-Palestine Stance

09/08/2025 By Middle East Monitor

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COP27 flinched on phasing out ‘All Fossil Fuels’. What’s next for the Fight to keep them in the Ground?

COP27 flinched on phasing out ‘All Fossil Fuels’. What’s next for the Fight to keep them in the Ground?

By Fergus Green, UCL and Harro van Asselt, Stockholm Environment Institute | – (The Conversation) – The latest UN climate change summit (COP27) concluded, once […]

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Thanksgiving:  The Pilgrims were saved by Native Advice; We should listen to Deb Haaland and other Native Leaders on the Climate Crisis

Thanksgiving: The Pilgrims were saved by Native Advice; We should listen to Deb Haaland and other Native Leaders on the Climate Crisis

Revised. Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The popular story about Thanksgiving is an environmental parable that we would do well to remember today. It was […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Iran’s Creative Resistance: From Hugs and Kisses to Tossing Turbans

Iran’s Creative Resistance: From Hugs and Kisses to Tossing Turbans

By Fred Petrossian | – ( Globalvoices.org ) – It has been eight weeks since protests erupted across Iran on September 16 in response to […]

Global Voices

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How young Climate Activists built a Mass Movement to be Reckoned With

How young Climate Activists built a Mass Movement to be Reckoned With

By Nick Engelfried | – ( Waging Nonviolence ) – When I became a climate organizer in college in the early 2000s, the words “youth […]

Waging Nonviolence

Climate Crisis
From Sponge Cities to Early Wildfire Detection Systems:  Top 4 Ways Climate-fuelled Disasters can be Thwarted

From Sponge Cities to Early Wildfire Detection Systems: Top 4 Ways Climate-fuelled Disasters can be Thwarted

By Roslyn Prinsley, Australian National University | – Climate change is driving a worldwide increase in extreme events. The latest State of the Climate report […]

The Conversation

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Israel has Jailed 50,000 Palestinian Children since 1967, and the Number of Detentions is Growing Rapidly: Report

Israel has Jailed 50,000 Palestinian Children since 1967, and the Number of Detentions is Growing Rapidly: Report

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Palestinian Commission on Detainees and Ex-Detainees released a report for World Children’s Day on the routine Israeli arrest and […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Iran's Athletes, Including Soccer Players at World Cup, are Boycotting National Anthem to Support Protests

Iran’s Athletes, Including Soccer Players at World Cup, are Boycotting National Anthem to Support Protests

I’m RFE/RL correspondent Golnaz Esfandiari. Here’s what I’ve been following during the past week and what I’m watching for in the days ahead. ( RFE/ […]

Golnaz Esfandiari

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After Failures of COP27, only a Radical Effort to Slash CO2 can keep Climate from Going Chaotic

After Failures of COP27, only a Radical Effort to Slash CO2 can keep Climate from Going Chaotic

By Peter Schlosser, Arizona State University | – The world could still, theoretically, meet its goal of keeping global warming under 1.5 degrees Celsius, a […]

The Conversation

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How the Bush "War on Terror" Fed US White Nationalism and brought the Terror Home

How the Bush “War on Terror” Fed US White Nationalism and brought the Terror Home

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Recently, an agent of the Department of Homeland Security called me and started asking questions about a childhood acquaintance being investigated […]

Andrea Mazzarino

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