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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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Libya:  Is the Russia-Turkey Conflict Heightening over Oil-Rich Sirte?

Libya: Is the Russia-Turkey Conflict Heightening over Oil-Rich Sirte?

Belgrade (Special to Informed Comment) – The Libya’s civil war intensifies as Russia and Turkey are expected to negotiate the fate of strategically important coastal […]

Nikola Mikovic

Bill of Rights
How Trump brought US Racist Policing and Racist Foreign Policy Together on D.C. Streets

How Trump brought US Racist Policing and Racist Foreign Policy Together on D.C. Streets

(Code Pink) – On June 1, President Trump threatened to deploy active-duty U.S. military forces against peaceful Black Lives Matter protesters in cities across America. […]

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

Donald Trump
Eyeing Iran as Weapons Market, Russia shoots down as “Ridiculous” Trump’s demand for Arms Embargo on Tehran

Eyeing Iran as Weapons Market, Russia shoots down as “Ridiculous” Trump’s demand for Arms Embargo on Tehran

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Neoconservative wing of the Trump administration, which is dying to drag the United States into a war with Iran, […]

Juan Cole

Democracy
The Other Looting:  We've Just witnessed a Nationwide Police Riot, Fueled by Trump's talk of "Terrorists"

The Other Looting: We’ve Just witnessed a Nationwide Police Riot, Fueled by Trump’s talk of “Terrorists”

Reacting to Protests Against Brutality and Racism, the Police Try to Crush Dissent by Brutally Beating, Gassing, and Shooting Protesters

Dan Dinello

Democracy
The 2020 uprisings, unprecedented in scope, join a long river of struggle in America

The 2020 uprisings, unprecedented in scope, join a long river of struggle in America

By Matthew Countryman | – The river was the metaphor that best captured “the long, continuous movement” of the black freedom struggle for theologian, historian […]

The Conversation

African-Americans
‘I am here with my Palestinian flag to show that Black Lives Matter’

‘I am here with my Palestinian flag to show that Black Lives Matter’

By Lauren Lewis | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – “[Palestinians] go through the same struggle, so I understand the pain, and there’s nothing […]

Middle East Monitor

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What we can Learn from the Qur’an about valuing People of all Races and Colors

What we can Learn from the Qur’an about valuing People of all Races and Colors

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Qur’an (sometimes spelled Koran), is one of great books in world history. Only a handful of works have been […]

Juan Cole

African-Americans
We are George Floyd: How his Killing and COVID 19 made for an American Spring

We are George Floyd: How his Killing and COVID 19 made for an American Spring

Hamilton, Ont. (Special to Informed Comment) – George Floyd has ignited an “Arab Spring” in the United States. Like the now-fallen dictators of Egypt and […]

Ellen Amster

African-Americans
Trump wants to send Federal Troops to the States to Stop Dissent, but SCOTUS lets the South Suppress the Black Vote

Trump wants to send Federal Troops to the States to Stop Dissent, but SCOTUS lets the South Suppress the Black Vote

Southwest Harbor, Me. (Special to Informed Comment) – The pandemic has exposed more than just the inequities and vulnerabilities of our political economy. It has […]

John Buell

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