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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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Top 7 Ways al-Qaeda’s Terrorism Violated the Precepts of the Holy Qur’an

Top 7 Ways al-Qaeda’s Terrorism Violated the Precepts of the Holy Qur’an

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – One of the great tragedies of the early twenty-first century is that the great civilization of Islam, over 1400 years […]

Juan Cole

Germany
With a Million Electric Cars on the Road, a Quarter of Germans have plans to Buy an EV

With a Million Electric Cars on the Road, a Quarter of Germans have plans to Buy an EV

By Benjamin Wehrmann | – ( Clean Energy Wire) – Interest in electric cars is growing rapidly in Germany, according to a survey by the […]

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Islamophobia
How social media – aided by bots – amplifies Islamophobia online

How social media – aided by bots – amplifies Islamophobia online

By Saif Shahin | – ( The Conversation ) – In August 2021, a Facebook ad campaign criticizing Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, the United […]

The Conversation

Children
The Palestinian scramble to earn a living in Israeli-Occupied Gaza starts at school age

The Palestinian scramble to earn a living in Israeli-Occupied Gaza starts at school age

By Motasem A Dalloul | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – The start of the new school year in the besieged Gaza Strip saw […]

Juan Cole

Bush
The Accumulated Evil of the Whole: That time Bush and Co. made the September 11 Attacks a Pretext for War on Iraq

The Accumulated Evil of the Whole: That time Bush and Co. made the September 11 Attacks a Pretext for War on Iraq

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Kyle Swenson at the Washington Post reported in 2018 that Floridian Ishnar Lopez-Ramos was in love, but her intended only […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
September 11 and the Debacle of ‘Nation-Building’ in Iraq and Afghanistan

September 11 and the Debacle of ‘Nation-Building’ in Iraq and Afghanistan

By Walden Bello | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – In one of his interviews before the Taliban retook Afghanistan, John Bolton, Trump’s […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

al-Qaeda
9/11 survivors’ exposure to toxic dust and the chronic health conditions that followed offer lessons that are still too often unheeded

9/11 survivors’ exposure to toxic dust and the chronic health conditions that followed offer lessons that are still too often unheeded

By Roberto Lucchini | – ( The Conversation) – The 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York resulted in the loss […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Palestinian Prisoners take hope from emptying of South African Apartheid Jails

Palestinian Prisoners take hope from emptying of South African Apartheid Jails

By Alie Komape | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – When you do an online search for South Africa’s Robben Island, one of the […]

Middle East Monitor

al-Qaeda
Think Again: 9/11

Think Again: 9/11

“Think Again: 9/11,” by Juan Cole. Published in Foreign Policy No. 156 (Sep. – Oct., 2006), pp. 26-28, 30, 32. Copyright Foreign Policy, all rights […]

Juan Cole

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