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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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Militarization
No, Modern Warfare is not "Accurate" or "Accountable" and dead Innocents are not "Collateral Damage"

No, Modern Warfare is not “Accurate” or “Accountable” and dead Innocents are not “Collateral Damage”

By Lauren Gould, Jolle Demmers, and Nora Stel | – The US military is facing allegations it covered up civilian casualty cases in the US-led […]

The Conversation

Archaeology
Pandemic History: The Great Plague of Justinian in the 500s AD was a Black Death that Shaped the Century before Islam

Pandemic History: The Great Plague of Justinian in the 500s AD was a Black Death that Shaped the Century before Islam

Research News of the University of Cambridge | – ‘Plague sceptics’ are wrong to underestimate the devastating impact that bubonic plague had in the 6th– […]

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censorship
Apple Sues Israeli gov't-backed NSO Spyware Company: "Notorious Hackers - Amoral 21st C. Mercenaries"

Apple Sues Israeli gov’t-backed NSO Spyware Company: “Notorious Hackers – Amoral 21st C. Mercenaries”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Apple is suing the NSO group, which produced the spyware that Israel uses to keep under surveillance the 5 million […]

Juan Cole

Iran
'It's My Decision': Iran's New Population Law Blasted For Restricting Access To Contraceptives, Abortions

‘It’s My Decision’: Iran’s New Population Law Blasted For Restricting Access To Contraceptives, Abortions

By Golnaz Esfandiari and Elahe Ravanshad | – ( RFL/RE ) – Authorities have approved new legislation that imposes further restrictions on abortions, bans the […]

Golnaz Esfandiari

CO2
Climate Emergency: Big Oil wants to go on drilling while greenwashing with imaginary "Carbon Capture"

Climate Emergency: Big Oil wants to go on drilling while greenwashing with imaginary “Carbon Capture”

By June Sekera and Neva Goodwin | – After decades of sowing doubt about climate change and its causes, the fossil fuel industry is now […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Mars Attacks Earth!   And we’re the Martians in this Picture

Mars Attacks Earth! And we’re the Martians in this Picture

( Tomdispatch.com) – Who knew that Martians, inside monstrous tripodal machines taller than many buildings, actually ululated, that they made eerily haunting “ulla, ulla, ulla, […]

Tom Engelhardt

Authoritarianism
For First Time, US joins Brazil and India as "Backsliding Democracy": GOP is making US a Third World Country

For First Time, US joins Brazil and India as “Backsliding Democracy”: GOP is making US a Third World Country

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Sweden’s International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance finds this year that the United States of America has joined the […]

Juan Cole

Islam
On Writing the Biography of the Prophet Muhammad:  Juan Cole Video

On Writing the Biography of the Prophet Muhammad: Juan Cole Video

I was honored to be asked to address a seminar of the AIME organization on the biography of the Prophet Muhammad on November 6, 2021. […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Despite 5.1 bn Tons of deadly annual CO2 Emissions, 39% of Americans Think US is Doing a Good Job on Climate

Despite 5.1 bn Tons of deadly annual CO2 Emissions, 39% of Americans Think US is Doing a Good Job on Climate

( Foreign Policy in Focus) – We all think that climate change is somebody else’s problem. We have to be persuaded otherwise. There is an […]

John Feffer

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