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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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Israeli Youth Protest Israel-UAE Oil Pipeline that Endangers Climate, Key Coral Reefs: The Dark Side of "Abraham Accords"

Israeli Youth Protest Israel-UAE Oil Pipeline that Endangers Climate, Key Coral Reefs: The Dark Side of “Abraham Accords”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The so-called Abraham Accords, which take the patriarch’s name in vain, were about many things, but genuine peace was not […]

Juan Cole

Inequality
If even the Democratic Party can't raise Taxes on the Super-Rich, is the US even a Democracy Any More?

If even the Democratic Party can’t raise Taxes on the Super-Rich, is the US even a Democracy Any More?

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – The struggle over efforts to revise and reform the tax code offers left and labor activists as […]

John Buell

African-Americans
Haitian migrants at the border: An asylum law scholar explains how US skirts its legal and moral duties

Haitian migrants at the border: An asylum law scholar explains how US skirts its legal and moral duties

By Karen Musalo | – The U.S.’s top envoy to Haiti resigned abruptly on Sept. 22, 2021, over the Biden administration’s “inhumane” treatment of Haitian […]

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Drones
The Names You’ll Never Know:  A Blue Kia and a Wall of Carnage on the Washington Mall

The Names You’ll Never Know: A Blue Kia and a Wall of Carnage on the Washington Mall

( Tomdispatch.com) – As a parting shot, on its way out of Afghanistan, the United States military launched a drone attack that the Pentagon called […]

Nick Turse

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Palestinian Parties, Organizations Greet Abbas's Pledge to take Israel to Int'l  Court as "Historic" and Roadmap

Palestinian Parties, Organizations Greet Abbas’s Pledge to take Israel to Int’l Court as “Historic” and Roadmap

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – al-Quds [Jerusalem] reports that Palestinians in the West Bank greeted President Mahmoud Abbas’s UN speech, in which he pledged to […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
The End of Coal?   In Huge News for Climate, China to Stop Building new Coal Power Projects Overseas

The End of Coal? In Huge News for Climate, China to Stop Building new Coal Power Projects Overseas

By Shi Yi | – ( China Dialogue ) – The mounting calls for China to stop supporting coal power projects overseas have received an […]

China Dialogue

Inequality
Fund the Jobs bill by taxing the Billionaires who have made the $1.8 trillion during the Pandemic

Fund the Jobs bill by taxing the Billionaires who have made the $1.8 trillion during the Pandemic

By Chuck Collins | – ( Otherwords.org) – As lawmakers scramble to finalize a historic jobs and infrastructure package, huge fights are underway to figure […]

OtherWords

Climate Crisis
The Relentless Decline of Arctic Sea Ice is a Dangerous signal of the Climate Emergency

The Relentless Decline of Arctic Sea Ice is a Dangerous signal of the Climate Emergency

By Alek Petty and Linette Boisvert | – September marks the end of the summer sea ice melt season and the Arctic sea ice minimum, […]

The Conversation

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Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas gives Israel a Year to Withdraw from Palestinian Territories or he will go to the Int'l Court

Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas gives Israel a Year to Withdraw from Palestinian Territories or he will go to the Int’l Court

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – According to Al Jazeera, Mahmoud Abbas, the president of Palestine, gave an uncharacteristically vehement speech at the UN General Assembly […]

Juan Cole

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