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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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300 Former Prosecutors: Multiple Felony Counts of Obstruction against Trump in Mueller Report

300 Former Prosecutors: Multiple Felony Counts of Obstruction against Trump in Mueller Report

STATEMENT BY FORMER FEDERAL PROSECUTORS (Medium.com) – We are former federal prosecutors. We served under both Republican and Democratic administrations at different levels of the […]

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Gaza Palestinians and Israelis Wounded Past Year by the Numbers: 31,691 v. 250

Gaza Palestinians and Israelis Wounded Past Year by the Numbers: 31,691 v. 250

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The reporting on the fighting between Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and Israelis the past few days, as usual, has […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Don't Even Bother:  Why Trump's Israel-Palestine "Deal" is Dead on Arrival

Don’t Even Bother: Why Trump’s Israel-Palestine “Deal” is Dead on Arrival

By Dov Waxman | – Dead on arrival. That’s what almost every expert predicts will be the fate of the Trump administration’s long-awaited peace plan […]

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Inequality
The Reality for the Middle Classes behind the supposedly "Surging" U.S. Economy

The Reality for the Middle Classes behind the supposedly “Surging” U.S. Economy

The black unemployment rate remains more than twice as high as the rate for whites and it has increased from 6.5% in April 2018

Inequality.org

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Warmongers Bolton & Pompeo send Aircraft Carrier to Menace Iran, still Hoping for Confrontation

Warmongers Bolton & Pompeo send Aircraft Carrier to Menace Iran, still Hoping for Confrontation

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Uber warmongerers John Bolton and Mike Pompeo, somehow the National Security Adviser and Secretary of State of the United States, […]

Juan Cole

Foreign Policy
Trump’s Backward Foreign Policy: Seeing China as a threat but ignoring Russian Interference

Trump’s Backward Foreign Policy: Seeing China as a threat but ignoring Russian Interference

The issues in controversy between the US and China do not, after all, threaten national security

Mel Gurtov

Muslim Brotherhood
Why Trump can't ban the Muslim Brotherhood without Damaging Democratic Prospects

Why Trump can’t ban the Muslim Brotherhood without Damaging Democratic Prospects

That many branches of the Muslim Brotherhood are interested in competing as parties in parliamentary systems poses a severe challenge to the authoritarian status quo in Saudi Arabia

Jonathan Fenton-Harvey

Islam
Muslims need an Alternative Political Paradigm

Muslims need an Alternative Political Paradigm

The abuse of Islam and its teachings by radical groups like Daesh [ISIL] and Al Qaeda is a reality that no one can ignore

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Conspiracy-Theorist-in-Chief Trump Tweetstorms the Far Right after Facebook Deplatformed Them

Conspiracy-Theorist-in-Chief Trump Tweetstorms the Far Right after Facebook Deplatformed Them

Despite sharp rise in white nationalist violence toward minorities

Juan Cole

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