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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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What does the future hold for Middle Eastern states?

What does the future hold for Middle Eastern states?

By Mohamad Moustafa Alabsi | – From independence until the advent of the Arab Spring, Middle Eastern states have suffered due to their constituting principle, […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
UN: Earth heading to 16% Increase in Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 2030, Risking Climate Instability

UN: Earth heading to 16% Increase in Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 2030, Risking Climate Instability

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A United Nations study of the greenhouse gas reduction targets announced by the 191 signatories to the Paris Convention has […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Tunisia: President’s Repressive Policies Abrogate Rights: Dozens Placed Under Arbitrary House Arrest (HRW)

Tunisia: President’s Repressive Policies Abrogate Rights: Dozens Placed Under Arbitrary House Arrest (HRW)

Human Rights Watch (Tunis) – Arbitrary and politically motivated acts of repression have proliferated in Tunisia since July 25, 2021, when President Kais Saied suspended […]

Human Rights Watch

Israel/ Palestine
Was Sabra and Shatila a genocide?

Was Sabra and Shatila a genocide?

By Donald Wagner | – ( Electronic Intifada) – The US withdrawal from Afghanistan marks the end of the latest in a long list of […]

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Afghanistan
The Trump Albatross around Joe Biden's Neck

The Trump Albatross around Joe Biden’s Neck

( Foreign Policy in Focus) – The far right would like to impeach Joe Biden, kick him out of the White House, perhaps even throw […]

John Feffer

Arab Americans
Habib Satire and Marvel Superheroes: Using Comedy to Combat Stereotyping of Arabs

Habib Satire and Marvel Superheroes: Using Comedy to Combat Stereotyping of Arabs

By Safiyya Hosein | – As a researcher of Muslim superheroes, I’ve learned about the many ways Islamophobia manifests. Because Islam is racialized in the […]

The Conversation

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In Turning Point for US Media, Time Recognizes Palestinians Mohammed and Muna El-Kurd as among 100 "Most Influential"

In Turning Point for US Media, Time Recognizes Palestinians Mohammed and Muna El-Kurd as among 100 “Most Influential”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In what may be a turning point for American media, Time magazine has chosen twin Palestinian activists from the endangered […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israel's future is apartheid in a 'solution of the three classes'

Israel’s future is apartheid in a ‘solution of the three classes’

By Nasim Ahmed | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Reading the reflections of one of Israel’s most celebrated contemporary public intellectuals on the […]

Middle East Monitor

Homelessness
The Land of the Free, Where So Many of the Brave Are Homeless:  Resisting Evictions Amid a Pandemic

The Land of the Free, Where So Many of the Brave Are Homeless: Resisting Evictions Amid a Pandemic

( Tomdispatch.com) – Over the past weeks, multiple crises have merged: a crisis of democracy with the most significant attack on voting rights since Reconstruction; […]

Liz Theoharis

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