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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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Corporations
More than half of all daily Papers in America are owned by just 10 Syndicates, most of which don’t care about Journalism.

More than half of all daily Papers in America are owned by just 10 Syndicates, most of which don’t care about Journalism.

By Jim Hightower | – ( Otherwords.org) – My newspaper died. Well, technically it still appears. But it has no life, no news, and barely […]

OtherWords

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Germany to Give Electricity Rebates, financed with Windfall Profit Tax on Energy Corporations

Germany to Give Electricity Rebates, financed with Windfall Profit Tax on Energy Corporations

( Clean Energy Wire ) – The German government plans to introduce a power price brake that will grant electricity consumers a lower price for […]

Benjamin Wehrmann

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Israeli Squatters in Palestinian West Bank launch 100 attacks in 10 Days, Pepper-Spray own Troops like Jan. 6 Insurrectionists

Israeli Squatters in Palestinian West Bank launch 100 attacks in 10 Days, Pepper-Spray own Troops like Jan. 6 Insurrectionists

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Palestinian West Bank, which is militarily occupied by Israel and which is being steadily colonized by Israeli squatters on […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
The World's Last Colony, Palestinian Gaza, has no Say as Israel May Usurp Natural Gas Resources off its Coast

The World’s Last Colony, Palestinian Gaza, has no Say as Israel May Usurp Natural Gas Resources off its Coast

By Motasem A Dalloul | – ( Middle East Monitor) – Since the beginning of October, news reports have mentioned a tripartite agreement between Egypt, […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
'Just Stop Oil's' Tomato Juice on van Gogh: Do Radical Protests actually Backfire or do they Raise Consciousness?

‘Just Stop Oil’s’ Tomato Juice on van Gogh: Do Radical Protests actually Backfire or do they Raise Consciousness?

By Colin Davis, University of Bristol | – Members of the protest group Just Stop Oil recently threw soup at Van Gogh’s Sunflowers in the […]

The Conversation

Inequality
The U.S. Never Banned Asbestos. These Workers Are Paying the Price

The U.S. Never Banned Asbestos. These Workers Are Paying the Price

By Kathleen McGrory and Neil Bedi, photography by Rich-Joseph Facun, graphics by Haisam Hussein | – Co-published with NPR News ( ProPublica ) – Henry […]

ProPublica

Authoritarianism
Top Iran Prosecutor Threatens Death Penalty for Leading Protests, as Government arrests over 7,000

Top Iran Prosecutor Threatens Death Penalty for Leading Protests, as Government arrests over 7,000

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – BBC Monitoring reports that the protests in Iran are continuing, both in small towns and big cities, though the situation […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Tax Cuts for the Rich, Fracking and Harsh Discipline undid UK's Liz Truss, in Warning to Conservative Parties Everywhere

Tax Cuts for the Rich, Fracking and Harsh Discipline undid UK’s Liz Truss, in Warning to Conservative Parties Everywhere

Oxford (Special to Informed Comment) – The British Prime Minister Liz Truss was forced to step down on Thursday 20th October only after 44 days […]

Farhang Jahanpour

Arms Sales
Ukraine war: Iranian ‘kamikaze’ drones can inflict serious damage but will not be a gamechanger

Ukraine war: Iranian ‘kamikaze’ drones can inflict serious damage but will not be a gamechanger

By Dominika Kunertova, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich | – Many Ukrainians are facing the prospect of a winter of power outages after about […]

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