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Accelerating Climate Change and Global Inequality: Indigenous People were the Heroes of COP30
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Accelerating Climate Change and Global Inequality: Indigenous People were the Heroes of COP30

H. Patricia Hynes

Indigenous and tribal fishing communities on Brazil’s Amazon coast, their survival and livelihoods depends on fishing

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From T. S. Eliot to the Grateful Dead: echoes of FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:26

From T. S. Eliot to the Grateful Dead: echoes of FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:26

11/27/2025 By Juan Cole

Tariffs trickle into Cost of Thanksgiving Dinner, jilting Consumers and Farmers

Tariffs trickle into Cost of Thanksgiving Dinner, jilting Consumers and Farmers

11/27/2025 By Michigan Advance

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Apartheid
The Genesis of Israeli Ultra-Apartheid

The Genesis of Israeli Ultra-Apartheid

Such a shift would be consistent with the Israeli far-right’s redemptionist dreams of Jewish supremacy and Greater Israel

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Iran
The Dawn that Never Broke: The Unresolved Israel-Iran War

The Dawn that Never Broke: The Unresolved Israel-Iran War

The twelve-day war between Iran and Israel did not culminate in an Israeli triumph or an Iranian eclipse.

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Climate Crisis
What Policies Can Help Solve Iran’s Climate-Driven Water Shortage?

What Policies Can Help Solve Iran’s Climate-Driven Water Shortage?

In Tehran, and in Mashhad some reservoirs are at less than 5% and 3% capacity, respectively

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Academic Freedom
Assaults on US Academic Freedom:  Acquiescence and Resistance

Assaults on US Academic Freedom: Acquiescence and Resistance

Academic freedom siege in the US is under siege as never in our nation’s history

H. Scott Prosterman

Israel/ Palestine
Are Secretive Israeli Front Organizations Trying to Empty out Gaza? Palestinians sent to South Africa

Are Secretive Israeli Front Organizations Trying to Empty out Gaza? Palestinians sent to South Africa

When a chartered flight carrying more than 150 Palestinians from Gaza landed in Johannesburg last week, confusion filled South African airwaves

Middle East Monitor

Arms Sales
The Ultimate Con: Arms Contractors are Making out Like Bandits

The Ultimate Con: Arms Contractors are Making out Like Bandits

U.S. interceptors have failed almost half their tests, and the secretary of defense responds by bellowing: “That’s what $50 billion buys us?”

Tomdispatch

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Practicing Social Ecology: From Bookchin to Kurdish Rojava and Beyond

Practicing Social Ecology: From Bookchin to Kurdish Rojava and Beyond

Murray Bookchin was one of the most significant thinkers – and activists – in the 20th century

Peter G. Prontzos

Israel/ Palestine
Gaza: As Cold and Rain Assault Homeless, Israel Blocks Entry of Tents

Gaza: As Cold and Rain Assault Homeless, Israel Blocks Entry of Tents

the health situation in the Gaza Strip is catastrophic as the population drinks contaminated water with high salinity

International Middle East Media Center

Green Energy
Pacific Nations aim to go 100% Renewables, saving 25% of GDP

Pacific Nations aim to go 100% Renewables, saving 25% of GDP

In Papua New Guinea’s highlands, solar kits bring electric light to homes for the first time

The Conversation

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