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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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Taking Focus off Wage Stagnation: How Trump's Stoking of Racial Divide Harms the White Working Class

Taking Focus off Wage Stagnation: How Trump’s Stoking of Racial Divide Harms the White Working Class

By Donald T. Tomaskovic-Devey and Eric Hoyt | – Many white men say they feel threatened by the increasing presence and success of minorities in […]

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Trump's Racism is Reducing our News Anchors to Tears: CNN's Victor Blackwell Pushes Back over Baltimore "Infestation"

Trump’s Racism is Reducing our News Anchors to Tears: CNN’s Victor Blackwell Pushes Back over Baltimore “Infestation”

CNN | Video Clip | – “CNN’s Victor Blackwell became emotional while responding to President Donald Trump’s tweets calling Rep. Elijah Cummings’ (D-MD) district a […]

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Immigration
US Homeland Security could return Syrian Refugees in US to Violence, Arrest, Torture under al-Assad

US Homeland Security could return Syrian Refugees in US to Violence, Arrest, Torture under al-Assad

Human Rights Watch (Washington, DC) – The US should renew its grant of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to almost 7,000 Syrians living in the United […]

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Climate Change
Europe, are you Crazy?  As a Continent Melts, New Coal Plants Planned and Permitting Blocks Wind Farms

Europe, are you Crazy? As a Continent Melts, New Coal Plants Planned and Permitting Blocks Wind Farms

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The heat wave that has swept Europe and given Paris the weather of Madras is certainly embroiled in human-caused climate […]

Juan Cole

Democratic Party
When They Go Low, the Squad Goes Bold

When They Go Low, the Squad Goes Bold

By Negin Owliaei and Sarah Anderson | – The four congresswomen are responding to vile attacks with bold ideas to combat inequality — and help […]

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Creeping Ethnic Cleansing as Israel Demolishes 18 more Palestinian-owned Buildings

Creeping Ethnic Cleansing as Israel Demolishes 18 more Palestinian-owned Buildings

By Rasheed Hassan | – The Israeli occupation authorities demolished 18 Palestinian-owned residential buildings this week in Sur Bahir, just 2 or 3 km from […]

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United Kingdom
Boris Johnson and the New Battle of Britain: Can Labour Keep UK in Europe?

Boris Johnson and the New Battle of Britain: Can Labour Keep UK in Europe?

(Foreign Policy in Focus ) – As hard Brexiteer Boris Johnson takes over, Labour is finally coming down on the side of Remain. Will it […]

John Feffer

Afghanistan
Why Afghanistan peace is key to rebuilding relations between the US and Pakistan

Why Afghanistan peace is key to rebuilding relations between the US and Pakistan

By Scott Lucas and Umer Karim | – At times, the press conference in the White House was surreal. While Imran Khan, Pakistan’s prime minister, […]

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Civil Rights
Trump's Supreme Court overturns Magna Carta (1215) and Montesquieu (1748) for Sultan Donald John

Trump’s Supreme Court overturns Magna Carta (1215) and Montesquieu (1748) for Sultan Donald John

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The US Supreme Court on Friday, by a 5-4 Republican Party majority, temporarily ruled to allow Trump to divert monies […]

Juan Cole

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