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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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Education
Covid-19, our Public Schools and the Real-Time Lessons of Civic Democracy

Covid-19, our Public Schools and the Real-Time Lessons of Civic Democracy

By Belle Chesler | ( Tomdispatch.com) – It seems appropriate that the 2020-2021 school year in Portland, Oregon, began amid toxic smoke from the catastrophic […]

Belle Chesler

Authoritarianism
Flynn calls for Myanmar-Style Military Junta in U.S. - If he were Black, Brown or Muslim he'd be in Guantánamo

Flynn calls for Myanmar-Style Military Junta in U.S. – If he were Black, Brown or Muslim he’d be in Guantánamo

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Donie O’Sullivan at CNN reports that disgraced former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn called for a military coup, like the […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
This time, Palestine Solidarity Swept the U.S.

This time, Palestine Solidarity Swept the U.S.

By Shane Burley | – ( Waging Nonviolence) – In mid-May, hundreds gathered in Terry Schrunk Plaza in downtown Portland, Oregon with signs denouncing the […]

Waging Nonviolence

Inequality
Biden’s modest corporate tax increases to fund public infrastructure projects are wildly popular — except among CEOs

Biden’s modest corporate tax increases to fund public infrastructure projects are wildly popular — except among CEOs

By Jim Hightower ( Otherwords.org) – “Outrageous,” screeched the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. “It doesn’t feel fair,” whimpered a top corporate executive. The wailing by […]

Jim Hightower

Climate Crisis
Climate change will cost a teenager up to $245,000 over their lifetime, court case reveals

Climate change will cost a teenager up to $245,000 over their lifetime, court case reveals

By Liam Phelan and Jacquie Svenson | – The Federal Court today dismissed a bid by a group of Australian teenagers seeking to prevent federal […]

The Conversation

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Why proposed new Israeli PM, extreme-right Naftali "I've Killed a Lot of Arabs" Bennett, is even worse for Palestinians than far right Netanyahu

Why proposed new Israeli PM, extreme-right Naftali “I’ve Killed a Lot of Arabs” Bennett, is even worse for Palestinians than far right Netanyahu

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a prime time address on Sunday evening, right wing extremist Israeli politician Naftali Bennett announced that he intended to […]

Juan Cole

Congress
Mitch McConnell, Shepherd of Shame: Taking Names for a New, Deeper Circle of Hades

Mitch McConnell, Shepherd of Shame: Taking Names for a New, Deeper Circle of Hades

Mitch McConnell will go down in history as one of the most destructive men in American History. If obstructing all the positive legislation and court […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Israel/ Palestine
Dear UN Human Rights Council: Commission of Inquiry needed on Israel/Palestine to advance accountability, address root causes

Dear UN Human Rights Council: Commission of Inquiry needed on Israel/Palestine to advance accountability, address root causes

HRW statement to Human Rights Council Special Session Human Rights Watch – (Geneva, May 27, 2021) Once again, this Council gathers to address the latest […]

Human Rights Watch

Asian-Americans
Japanese American soldiers in World War II fought the Axis for the U.S. abroad and racial prejudice back at home

Japanese American soldiers in World War II fought the Axis for the U.S. abroad and racial prejudice back at home

By Susan H. Kamei | – Imagine being forced from your home by the government, being imprisoned in a detention camp under armed guards and […]

The Conversation

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