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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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Maskless in the Red Death: The Pathology of Trump's Racism is turning our Pandemic into Negligent Genocide

Maskless in the Red Death: The Pathology of Trump’s Racism is turning our Pandemic into Negligent Genocide

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – As Donald Trump sits idly by, the nation is experiencing both a catastrophic public health collapse that has brought […]

Dan Dinello

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Amid the Covid-19 Recession, you can't Afford the Bloated Pentagon Budget but Corporations Can

Amid the Covid-19 Recession, you can’t Afford the Bloated Pentagon Budget but Corporations Can

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – Imagine that as a member of Congress you are a strong advocate of urban public transit facilities. […]

John Buell

Islam
Islam's anti-racist message from the 7th century still resonates today

Islam’s anti-racist message from the 7th century still resonates today

By Asma Afsaruddin | – One day, in Mecca, the Prophet Muhammad dropped a bombshell on his followers: He told them that all people are […]

The Conversation

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Was February '20 Peak Oil Demand?  Petroleum might never Recover From Covid-19 and EVs

Was February ’20 Peak Oil Demand? Petroleum might never Recover From Covid-19 and EVs

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Julien Mieville at AFP asks the big question: Has global demand for petroleum peaked? The meme of “peak oil” once […]

Juan Cole

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As ‘annexation’ looms, let’s expand our compassion to include Palestinians

As ‘annexation’ looms, let’s expand our compassion to include Palestinians

By David Hart | – ( Waging Nonviolence ) – For decades, Israel has used talk of peace as a cover for expansion of an […]

Waging Nonviolence

Germany
Over Half of Germany’s Power Use in 1st Half of 2020 was from Wind and Solar, as Coal Sank

Over Half of Germany’s Power Use in 1st Half of 2020 was from Wind and Solar, as Coal Sank

By Julian Wettengel | – Renewables covered more than half of Germany’s power consumption in the first six months of 2020, according to a first […]

Clean Energy Wire

African-Americans
How racism in US health system hinders care and costs lives of African Americans

How racism in US health system hinders care and costs lives of African Americans

By Tamika C.B. Zapolski | – As the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the U.S., the virus hit African Americans disproportionately hard. African Americans are still […]

The Conversation

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When will Palestine have its Declaration of Independence?

When will Palestine have its Declaration of Independence?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Americans’ commemoration of the Fourth of July in 2020 was often a bit subdued, depending on where in the country […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Is More Conflict What the Mideast Needs?  Israel's Dangerous Plan to Annex 1/3 of Palestinian West Bank

Is More Conflict What the Mideast Needs? Israel’s Dangerous Plan to Annex 1/3 of Palestinian West Bank

By Hazem Ayyad | – ( Middle East Monitor.) – As expected, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu postponed Israel’s annexation plan… on the pretext of finishing […]

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