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Accelerating Climate Change and Global Inequality: Indigenous People were the Heroes of COP30
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Accelerating Climate Change and Global Inequality: Indigenous People were the Heroes of COP30

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Indigenous and tribal fishing communities on Brazil’s Amazon coast, their survival and livelihoods depends on fishing

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From T. S. Eliot to the Grateful Dead: echoes of FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:26

From T. S. Eliot to the Grateful Dead: echoes of FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:26

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Tariffs trickle into Cost of Thanksgiving Dinner, jilting Consumers and Farmers

Tariffs trickle into Cost of Thanksgiving Dinner, jilting Consumers and Farmers

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Protesting Punishing a Commencement Address on Palestine at George Washington U.

Protesting Punishing a Commencement Address on Palestine at George Washington U.

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Letter to George Washington University protesting the administration’s actions against graduating senior Cecilia Culver […]

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The End of Human Rights?  Donald Trump Has Ripped Off the Human Rights Veneer That Once Graced U.S. Foreign Policy

The End of Human Rights? Donald Trump Has Ripped Off the Human Rights Veneer That Once Graced U.S. Foreign Policy

By Ashley Gate and William D. Hartung ( Tomdispatch.com ) – The Trump administration seems intent on undermining America’s ability to make human rights a […]

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Morocco Plans Floating Solar PV over Reservoirs to Stop Evaporation

Morocco Plans Floating Solar PV over Reservoirs to Stop Evaporation

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Morocco is on a green energy roll, as the government’s far-sighted plan to move the North African country to renewables […]

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Human Rights
Syria: Türkiye-backed Armed Groups Detain, Extort Civilians

Syria: Türkiye-backed Armed Groups Detain, Extort Civilians

New Syrian Government Should Ensure Accountability Human Rights Watch – (Beirut) – Syrian National Army (SNA) factions that fought the Assad government with backing from Türkiye […]

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Children
What Malnutrition is doing to Gaza’s Starving Babies in their 1st 1000 Days of Life

What Malnutrition is doing to Gaza’s Starving Babies in their 1st 1000 Days of Life

By Nina Sivertsen, Flinders University; Annette Briley, Flinders University, and Tahlia Johnson, Flinders University (The Conversation) – Last week, the United Nations warned more than […]

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Gaza “a Gaping Wound on Humanity:” Spain Convenes Int’l Conference to call for Arms Embargo on Israel

Gaza “a Gaping Wound on Humanity:” Spain Convenes Int’l Conference to call for Arms Embargo on Israel

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Spanish wire service EFE reports that delegations from 20 countries met Sunday in Madrid in a push to pressure […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Siege Politics: Netanyahu’s Crisis-Driven Grip on Power

Siege Politics: Netanyahu’s Crisis-Driven Grip on Power

Even mild criticism produces splenetic reactions from the Israeli leader. By Imran Khalid | ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – By now, it should […]

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Starving Babies:  The Self-Liquidation of U.S. Global Soft Power

Starving Babies: The Self-Liquidation of U.S. Global Soft Power

( Tomdispatch.com ) – With the Oval Office looking more like a middle school classroom every day, let’s recall the way, once upon a time, […]

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Archaeology
Genetic Study finds Echoes of the Early Modern Ethnic Cleansing of Spain’s Muslims

Genetic Study finds Echoes of the Early Modern Ethnic Cleansing of Spain’s Muslims

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A genetic history study of Spain by Gonzalo Oteo-Garcia et al. in Genome Biology eloquently confirms the story of the […]

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