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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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Climate, Migration and Conflict mix to create ‘deadly’ intense Tropical Storms like Chido

Climate, Migration and Conflict mix to create ‘deadly’ intense Tropical Storms like Chido

By Liz Stephens, University of Reading; Dan Green, University of Bristol, and Luis Artur, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (The Conversation) – Cyclone Chido was an “intense […]

The Conversation

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Gaza’s Afflictions:  A Proem

Gaza’s Afflictions: A Proem

Orono, Maine (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Empathy will never be exhausted as gaza schools and hospitals  are torn asunder by pilots in fighter jets, […]

Hugh J. Curran

Israel
The Emerging Bitter Israeli-Turkish Rivalry in Syria

The Emerging Bitter Israeli-Turkish Rivalry in Syria

By Amin Saikal, Australian National University (The Conversation) – The fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria has opened a new front for geopolitical competition […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Israel’s Crime of Extermination, Acts of Genocide in Gaza

Israel’s Crime of Extermination, Acts of Genocide in Gaza

Authorities’ Widespread Deprivation of Water Threatens Survival

Human Rights Watch

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Syria’s New Fundamentalist Government: Women “biologically” Unsuited to Politics, Universities to be Segregated

Syria’s New Fundamentalist Government: Women “biologically” Unsuited to Politics, Universities to be Segregated

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Obeida Arnaout, the spokesman for the Sunni fundamentalist Levant Liberation Council (Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham or HTS) gave an interview on […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Once Upon a Time, a Nation of Laws:  From the Global War on Terror to Donald Trump’s Second Term

Once Upon a Time, a Nation of Laws: From the Global War on Terror to Donald Trump’s Second Term

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Post-election America finds itself in a panic. Voices from across a wide political spectrum warn that the country stands on the […]

Karen J. Greenberg

Syria
The Takedown of Bashar Assad has an Impact on Many in the U.S. Here’s how

The Takedown of Bashar Assad has an Impact on Many in the U.S. Here’s how

( San Diego Union Tribune ) – Syrian refugees in El Cajon danced in the streets upon hearing about the Dec. 7 collapse of the […]

Ibrahim Al-Marashi

Climate Crisis
Scientists: Cyclone Chido, which Devastated Indian Ocean Island of Mayotte, was 40% more likely to be a Cat 4 because of Climate Change

Scientists: Cyclone Chido, which Devastated Indian Ocean Island of Mayotte, was 40% more likely to be a Cat 4 because of Climate Change

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Cyclone Chido devastated the Indian Ocean island of Mayotte, destroying an estimated 20,000 homes and wiping out entire shantytown neighborhoods. […]

Juan Cole

Democratic Party
Palestinians file Landmark Lawsuit against Blinken over Israel military Aid

Palestinians file Landmark Lawsuit against Blinken over Israel military Aid

( Middle East Monitor ) – A groundbreaking federal lawsuit has been filed against US Secretary of State Antony Blinken accusing him of systematically failing […]

Middle East Monitor

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