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The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society (Review)
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The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society (Review)

H. Patricia Hynes

Health inequalities cannot be eliminated without addressing the injustice that contribute to weathering – the physical toll

Mamdani: “For too long in our city, freedom has belonged only to those who can afford to buy it.”

Mamdani: “For too long in our city, freedom has belonged only to those who can afford to buy it.”

01/02/2026 By Common Dreams

Gaza:  Child Killed, Fires, Flooding, and Cold Claim Lives, as Israel restricts Shelter Materials

Gaza: Child Killed, Fires, Flooding, and Cold Claim Lives, as Israel restricts Shelter Materials

01/02/2026 By International Middle East Media Center

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Israel: Polling suggests Extreme-Right Netanyahu Coalition in Trouble, as Tens of Thousands Protest

Israel: Polling suggests Extreme-Right Netanyahu Coalition in Trouble, as Tens of Thousands Protest

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A new opinion poll in Israel, published in Ma’ariv, is summarized in al-Balad. It shows that if Israel has early […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Palestine solidarity in Ukraine is all about shared experiences

Palestine solidarity in Ukraine is all about shared experiences

No strangers to the perils of war, Ukrainian activists and journalists are connecting their struggle to Gaza. Eleftheria Kousta ( Waging Nonviolence ) – As […]

Waging Nonviolence

Biodiversity
“I don’t see Palestine as an isolated story”

“I don’t see Palestine as an isolated story”

An Interview with Vivien Sansour, Founder of the Palestine Heirloom Seed Library By Thin Ink This is an excerpt of a longer interview on Thin […]

Global Voices

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UN’s IPC: Gaza out of Famine for Now, but Severe Malnutrition Continues, as Newborn dies of Hypthermia

UN’s IPC: Gaza out of Famine for Now, but Severe Malnutrition Continues, as Newborn dies of Hypthermia

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification or IPC, on which the United Nations depends to determine the level of nutritional […]

Juan Cole

Displaced and Refugees
1/4 of Syrian Expat Refugees Have Returned, but many to Destroyed Homes, Land Disputes

1/4 of Syrian Expat Refugees Have Returned, but many to Destroyed Homes, Land Disputes

By Sandra Joireman, University of Richmond (The Conversation) – Close to 1.5 million Syrian refugees have voluntarily returned to their home country over the past […]

The Conversation

Israel
Israel’s Airstrikes on Lebanese Reconstruction Equipment, Factories are War Crimes

Israel’s Airstrikes on Lebanese Reconstruction Equipment, Factories are War Crimes

Human Rights Watch – (Beirut)  – The Israeli military’s repeated attacks on reconstruction-related equipment and other civilian facilities in southern Lebanon throughout 2025 violate the […]

Human Rights Watch

Batteries
California: Fossil Gas use Declining, replaced by Solar Plus Megabatteries

California: Fossil Gas use Declining, replaced by Solar Plus Megabatteries

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The US Energy Information Agency reports that California’s fossil gas use is steadily declining. In the first half of 2025, […]

Juan Cole

Artificial Intelligence
From Sykes-Picot to Silicon Valley: Why Middle East Fault Lines now run through American Tech

From Sykes-Picot to Silicon Valley: Why Middle East Fault Lines now run through American Tech

( Middle East Monitor ) – In 1916, the Middle East was partitioned by its rulers with ink between Britain and France. A hundred years […]

Jasim Al-Azzawi

Antarctica
“We cannot Negotiate with the Melting Point of Ice:” World’s Ice Sheets shed 640 bn. Tons in 12 Months

“We cannot Negotiate with the Melting Point of Ice:” World’s Ice Sheets shed 640 bn. Tons in 12 Months

Chris Stokes, Durham University; Florence Colleoni, National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics (OGS), and James Kirkham, British Antarctic Survey “We cannot negotiate with the […]

The Conversation

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