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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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Avoiding water bankruptcy in the Southwest: What the US and Iran can learn from each other

Avoiding water bankruptcy in the Southwest: What the US and Iran can learn from each other

By Mojtaba Sadegh, Ali Mirchi, Amir AghaKouchak and Kaveh Madani | – The 2021 water year ends on Sept. 30, and it was another hot, […]

The Conversation

Afghanistan
Generals on Afghanistan: Yes, Trump is Largely Responsible for Chaos

Generals on Afghanistan: Yes, Trump is Largely Responsible for Chaos

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Senate Hearing on the collapse of Afghanistan, at which the top US generals testified, underlined that actions taken by […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
End of Democracy in Tunisia: Unprecedented Confiscation of Power by the Presidency

End of Democracy in Tunisia: Unprecedented Confiscation of Power by the Presidency

( Joint Statement of Human Rights Watch et al.) – The promulgation on September 22, of Presidential Decree No. 117 implicitly abrogating the constitutional order […]

Human Rights Watch

Natural Gas
How Sen. Joe Manchin’s support for natural gas could derail Biden’s US climate plan

How Sen. Joe Manchin’s support for natural gas could derail Biden’s US climate plan

By Michael Oppenheimer | – ( The Conversation) – President Joe Biden has a goal for all U.S. electricity to come from zero-carbon sources by […]

The Conversation

Afghanistan
Droning On: Assassins-in-Chief and Their Brood

Droning On: Assassins-in-Chief and Their Brood

( Tomdispatch.com ) – What a way to end a war! Apologies all around! We’re so damn sorry — or actually, maybe not! I’m thinking, […]

Tom Engelhardt

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In Height of Hypocrisy, Nuclear-Armed Israeli PM Bennett slams Iran, which has no weapons or program, for "crossing all red Lines"

In Height of Hypocrisy, Nuclear-Armed Israeli PM Bennett slams Iran, which has no weapons or program, for “crossing all red Lines”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that far-right Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, in his address to the U.N. General […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Are the Taliban Russia's Problem now?  Moscow Rushes to Arm Tajikistan

Are the Taliban Russia’s Problem now? Moscow Rushes to Arm Tajikistan

Belgrade (Special to Informed Comment) – Tensions rise between the Taliban – the de facto rulers of Afghanistan – and neighboring Russia-backed Tajikistan. The radical […]

Nikola Mikovic

Israel/ Palestine
Gaza’s children choose between working and starving

Gaza’s children choose between working and starving

By Aseel Kabariti | – Gaza ( We Are Not Numbers) – Child labor takes many forms. Many people picture a child in a factory, […]

We are not Numbers

Crime
More guns, pandemic stress and a police legitimacy crisis created perfect conditions for homicide spike in 2020

More guns, pandemic stress and a police legitimacy crisis created perfect conditions for homicide spike in 2020

By Justin Nix | – Homicides in the U.S. spiked by almost 30% in 2020. That was the main takeaway from figures released on Sept. […]

The Conversation

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