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What I saw in Vietnam, 50 Years after the War and Ecocide
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What I saw in Vietnam, 50 Years after the War and Ecocide

H. Patricia Hynes

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – This year 2025 is the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Vietnam from the “American War.”  The […]

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“Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:23

“Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:23

10/31/2025 By Juan Cole

Samhain, the Celtic New Year, and Halloween

Samhain, the Celtic New Year, and Halloween

10/31/2025 By Hugh J. Curran

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What Martin Luther King Jr. Would have thought of Israeli anti-Palestinian Apartheid

What Martin Luther King Jr. Would have thought of Israeli anti-Palestinian Apartheid

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., whose activism we honor today, took stands far beyond Selma and Montgomery, and called […]

Juan Cole

Australia
Some Technology is Too Dangerous: Iran's Accidental Ballistic Launch and Australia's Climate Inferno are Trying to Tell us Something

Some Technology is Too Dangerous: Iran’s Accidental Ballistic Launch and Australia’s Climate Inferno are Trying to Tell us Something

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – The first month of 2020 has been full of lessons—if we are willing to listen. With over […]

John Buell

Australia
Climate Catastrophe: With a Billion Animals Dead and the Koala in Danger, Will Australia's Ecology Ever be the Same?

Climate Catastrophe: With a Billion Animals Dead and the Koala in Danger, Will Australia’s Ecology Ever be the Same?

By Darren Evans | – The sheer scale and intensity of the Australian bushfire crisis have led to apocalyptic scenes making the front pages of […]

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prison reform
Indelible Legacy: Or How This Became a Gitmo World

Indelible Legacy: Or How This Became a Gitmo World

Karen J. Greenberg and Joshua Dratel | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – In January 2002, the Guantánamo Bay Detention Facility in Cuba opened its gates […]

Tomdispatch

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Wind Power Surging Globally and In U.S. despite Trump's Opposition, Replacing Coal

Wind Power Surging Globally and In U.S. despite Trump’s Opposition, Replacing Coal

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Coal is the dirtiest fossil fuel, and humanity needs to ban it yesterday if we are to keep the earth […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
The U.S. and Iran are Having a Huge Food Fight in Iraq after Trump assassinated Soleimani

The U.S. and Iran are Having a Huge Food Fight in Iraq after Trump assassinated Soleimani

By Bamo Nouri | – When thousands of anti-government protesters returned to Iraq’s streets on January 10, they were expressing anger at the explosion of […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Israel:  Free Palestinian rights Activist Jonathan Pollak

Israel: Free Palestinian rights Activist Jonathan Pollak

( Middle East Monitor) – Back in my mid-twenties, I went off to Palestine to become a solidarity activist. I volunteered with the International Solidarity […]

Asa Winstanley

Climate Crisis
We have a Decade to Slash Carbon Emissions:  After That it Gets Harder and much Hotter

We have a Decade to Slash Carbon Emissions: After That it Gets Harder and much Hotter

By Kelsey Hawkins-Johnson | – (Foreign Policy in Focus) – In the climate talks to come, we need more youth, indigenous, and civil society groups […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

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Chris Hedges: From Jerusalem to Gaza and Iraq, the Sacred Bonds of Kindness that Make us Human (Video)

Chris Hedges: From Jerusalem to Gaza and Iraq, the Sacred Bonds of Kindness that Make us Human (Video)

Emir-Stein Center | Chris Hedges | – “Evil, even in the darkest moments, is impotent before the miracle of human kindness. This miracle defies prejudices […]

Emir-Stein Center

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