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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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Afghanistan
No, Biden ending the Afghanistan War isn't a Disaster: The disaster was Dropping 7,400 Bombs on the Country Annually

No, Biden ending the Afghanistan War isn’t a Disaster: The disaster was Dropping 7,400 Bombs on the Country Annually

President Biden announced Tuesday that he will completely withdraw US troops from Afghanistan around September 1. This move will bring to an end America’s longest […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Palestinians of Gaza, under Israeli Blockade, face Devastating Second wave of Covid-19

Palestinians of Gaza, under Israeli Blockade, face Devastating Second wave of Covid-19

By Eman Abusidu | – The humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip is worsening as health officials report more than 1,000 new coronavirus cases daily. […]

Middle East Monitor

Environmentalism
Young Indigenous organizers are taking the fight against oil pipelines to Biden

Young Indigenous organizers are taking the fight against oil pipelines to Biden

( Waging Nonviolence)- Hundreds of people rallied in front of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers headquarters in Washington, D.C. on April 1 to deliver […]

Waging Nonviolence

Arms Sales
Empire of Killing Machines: America's Arsenal for Sale

Empire of Killing Machines: America’s Arsenal for Sale

( Tomdispatch.com) – By the time you read this piece, it will already be out of date. The reason’s simple enough. No matter what mayhem […]

Tom Engelhardt

Climate Crisis
"Unimaginable Amounts of Water": Human-Made Global Heating in Danger of "Uncorking" Massive Antarctic Glaciers, causing Sea Level Rise

“Unimaginable Amounts of Water”: Human-Made Global Heating in Danger of “Uncorking” Massive Antarctic Glaciers, causing Sea Level Rise

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A new article in Geophysical Research Letters found that four times as much of the Antarctic ices shelves would melt […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israelis to Evict Dozens of Native Palestinian families in Occupied East Jerusalem, plan Confiscation of 40% of Sheikh Jarrah

Israelis to Evict Dozens of Native Palestinian families in Occupied East Jerusalem, plan Confiscation of 40% of Sheikh Jarrah

By Belal Yasin | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – In February and March, courts in Israel approved the eviction of seven Palestinian families […]

Middle East Monitor

Human Rights
President Biden Needs a Middle East-Wide Human Rights Policy

President Biden Needs a Middle East-Wide Human Rights Policy

Published in: Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) By Iran Researcher Tara Sepehri Far | @sepehrifar @sepehrifar On the campaign trail and during his […]

Human Rights Watch

Climate Crisis
Technology innovation gives government leverage to drive down CO2 emissions fast – here's how

Technology innovation gives government leverage to drive down CO2 emissions fast – here’s how

By Jessika E. Trancik | – To avert the worst effects of climate change, global greenhouse gas emissions should fall at faster rates than they […]

The Conversation

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With Cyber-Attack on Iran's Natanz Nuclear Enrichment Facility, is Israel's Netanyahu trying to derail Biden talks and Escape Jail?

With Cyber-Attack on Iran’s Natanz Nuclear Enrichment Facility, is Israel’s Netanyahu trying to derail Biden talks and Escape Jail?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The BBC reports that a power outage and consequent explosion at the Natanz nuclear enrichment site in Iran on Sunday […]

Juan Cole

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