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Iran: A Visionary Life to Remember
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Iran: A Visionary Life to Remember

Fariba Amini

then he got involved in the student movement. It was the height of the Vietnam war.

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Israel’s Desperate Quest to Erase the History of the Gaza Genocide

Israel’s Desperate Quest to Erase the History of the Gaza Genocide

11/13/2025 By Ramzy Baroud

Protesting Cancellation of Conference on “Palestine and Europe” at the Collège de France

Protesting Cancellation of Conference on “Palestine and Europe” at the Collège de France

11/13/2025 By Middle East Studies Association

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Authoritarianism
Tunisia’s presidential power-grab is a test for its democracy

Tunisia’s presidential power-grab is a test for its democracy

By Larbi Sadiki and Layla Saleh | – ( OpenDemocracy.net ) – In a shocking move, Tunisia’s President Kais Saied invoked Article 80 of the […]

Open Democracy

Displaced and Refugees
Refugees and Asylum-Seekers are at high risk of COVID-19 infection, but low priority for vaccines

Refugees and Asylum-Seekers are at high risk of COVID-19 infection, but low priority for vaccines

By Yvonne Su | – ( The Conversation ) – In June, the G7 pledged 870 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access, […]

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Coal
Renewables for first time on Record generated more Electricity than either Coal or Nuclear in US in 2020: EIA

Renewables for first time on Record generated more Electricity than either Coal or Nuclear in US in 2020: EIA

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Energy Information Administration, the primary authority in the federal government on energy numbers, concludes that renewables, primarily hydro, wind […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Palestinian Activist: The Problem is not Ignorance of Israeli Occupation's Brutality, it is Inaction

Palestinian Activist: The Problem is not Ignorance of Israeli Occupation’s Brutality, it is Inaction

“I am tired of reporting the same brutality every day, of thinking of new ways to describe the obvious.” Those are the words of Mohammed […]

Asa Winstanley

Dissent
Iran: Deadly Repression of Khuzestan Protests: Hundreds Arrested; At Least 9 Deaths, Including a Child (HRW)

Iran: Deadly Repression of Khuzestan Protests: Hundreds Arrested; At Least 9 Deaths, Including a Child (HRW)

( Human Rights Watch) – (Beirut) – The rising death toll and mass arrests raise grave concerns about the Iranian authorities’ response to recent protests […]

Human Rights Watch

Russia
Is Russia Helping Syria or Stripping it of its Few Remaining Resources?

Is Russia Helping Syria or Stripping it of its Few Remaining Resources?

By Scott Lucas | – All the standard public relations ploys were in evidence for the recent meeting between Syria’s leader Bashar al-Assad and Russian […]

The Conversation

Archaeology
The U.S. Committed Cliocide (Destruction of History) in Iraq, and even Returning Gilgamesh Can't Fix it

The U.S. Committed Cliocide (Destruction of History) in Iraq, and even Returning Gilgamesh Can’t Fix it

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The US government has returned 17,000 archeological artifacts to Iraq, many of them over 4,000 years old. This, according to […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Top 5 Ways Coal and Gasoline-Driven Ocean Change can Threaten Human Health

Top 5 Ways Coal and Gasoline-Driven Ocean Change can Threaten Human Health

By Tiff-Annie Kenny, Malaya Bishop and Mélanie Lemire | – Humans have a deep and complex relationship with the sea. It provides food and essential […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Open Letter to Chancellor Merkel: Germany's Mega-Floods are a Wake-Up Call that We need Radical Climate Action, Now

Open Letter to Chancellor Merkel: Germany’s Mega-Floods are a Wake-Up Call that We need Radical Climate Action, Now

Prof. Dr. Eicke R. Weber 10625 Berlin An Bundeskanzlerin Dr. Angela Merkel Bundeskanzleramt Willi-Brandt-Straße 1 10557 Berlin July 25, 2021 Dear Chancellor Dr. Merkel, We […]

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