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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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America’s Two Pandemics:  And How They Mixed and Matched

America’s Two Pandemics: And How They Mixed and Matched

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Imagine that you were experiencing all of this (and by this, I mean our lives right now) as if it were […]

Tom Engelhardt

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How the Ukraine Crisis is Changing Biden's Mideast Policy:  The Rise and Rise of Qatar

How the Ukraine Crisis is Changing Biden’s Mideast Policy: The Rise and Rise of Qatar

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Russia’s massing of over 100,000 troops around Ukraine has provoked a diplomatic and military crisis, but also a potential energy […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Jerusalem Christians: ‘We shrunk from 20% to 2% of population due to Israeli violence’

Jerusalem Christians: ‘We shrunk from 20% to 2% of population due to Israeli violence’

By by Raseef22 | – ( Globalvoices.org) – As tensions escalate in Jerusalem in the wake of Israel’s latest wave of evicting Palestinians from the […]

Global Voices

Afghanistan
“Even If You Go to the Skies, We’ll Find You”:  LGBT People in Afghanistan After the Taliban Takeover

“Even If You Go to the Skies, We’ll Find You”: LGBT People in Afghanistan After the Taliban Takeover

(Human Rights Watch ) – Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in Afghanistan, and others who do not conform to rigid gender norms, have […]

Human Rights Watch

Climate Crisis
New flood maps show US damage rising 26% in next 30 years due to climate change alone, and the inequity is stark

New flood maps show US damage rising 26% in next 30 years due to climate change alone, and the inequity is stark

By Oliver Wing, Carolyn Kousky, Jeremy Porter, and Paul Bates | – Climate change is raising flood risks in neighborhoods across the U.S. much faster […]

The Conversation

Arab Americans
Islamophobia and the Capitol Insurrection: How the FBI Ignored White Radicals While Spying 24/7 on Muslim Americans

Islamophobia and the Capitol Insurrection: How the FBI Ignored White Radicals While Spying 24/7 on Muslim Americans

This is my new column at Tomdispatch.com . After you give it a read, do visit the link for the original to see Tom Engelhardt’s […]

Juan Cole

censorship
The Real Obscenity is that anti-Nazi Books like "Maus" are banned by McMinn County, TN

The Real Obscenity is that anti-Nazi Books like “Maus” are banned by McMinn County, TN

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment) – Objection to teaching Critical Race Theory (which is anyway not taught at the K-12 level) and school boards […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Israel/ Palestine
Israel to demolish, move the Palestinian Hamlet of Khan al-Ahmar for Squatter-Settlers

Israel to demolish, move the Palestinian Hamlet of Khan al-Ahmar for Squatter-Settlers

By Ramona Wadi | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Israel has announced new plans for the village of Khan Al-Ahmar in the occupied […]

Ramona Wadi

Health
Is the Government Stealthily Privatizing Medicare without Telling You?

Is the Government Stealthily Privatizing Medicare without Telling You?

Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment) – ALERT TO ALL ENROLLEES IN THE TRADITIONAL MEDICARE PROGRAM : The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) […]

F. Douglas Stephenson

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