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The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society (Review)
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The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society (Review)

H. Patricia Hynes

Health inequalities cannot be eliminated without addressing the injustice that contribute to weathering – the physical toll

Mamdani: “For too long in our city, freedom has belonged only to those who can afford to buy it.”

Mamdani: “For too long in our city, freedom has belonged only to those who can afford to buy it.”

01/02/2026 By Common Dreams

Gaza:  Child Killed, Fires, Flooding, and Cold Claim Lives, as Israel restricts Shelter Materials

Gaza: Child Killed, Fires, Flooding, and Cold Claim Lives, as Israel restricts Shelter Materials

01/02/2026 By International Middle East Media Center

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Afghanistan
The Costs of War: Afghan Civilian Casualties Spike, says ICRC

The Costs of War: Afghan Civilian Casualties Spike, says ICRC

An important price of President Obama’s decision to pursue a big new military campaign in Afghanistan under the rubric of ‘counter-insurgency’ has been a spike […]

Juan Cole

Environment
Fox Management Ordered Reporters to Spin Global Warming

Fox Management Ordered Reporters to Spin Global Warming

Surprise! Management at Fox Cable “News” instructed journalists to spin reporting on climate change by casting doubt on the indisputable fact that the world has […]

Juan Cole

Islamophobia
Domestic Crusaders and Islamophobia in Literature

Domestic Crusaders and Islamophobia in Literature

McSweeney’s is publishing Wajahat Ali’s important Muslim-American play: ‘ The Domestic Crusaders focuses on a day in the life of a modern Muslim Pakistani-American family […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
NIE Questions Progress in Afghanistan

NIE Questions Progress in Afghanistan

Congress has been briefed on a new National Intelligence estimate on Afghanistan that is said to throw cold water on the idea that the US […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Egypt: Israel’s Nukes Destabilizing to Region (Wikileaks)

Egypt: Israel’s Nukes Destabilizing to Region (Wikileaks)

Whenever any US official says that Iran’s civilian nuclear enrichment program is destabilizing the Middle East by posing a proliferation problem, I wince. A civilian […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Karzai Wishes he had Joined Taliban

Karzai Wishes he had Joined Taliban

Rajiv Chandrasekaran of WaPo gets the scoop. His sources say that at a high level meeting in October, Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Karl Eickenberry […]

Juan Cole

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Former CIA Official Ray McGovern Defends Assange

Former CIA Official Ray McGovern Defends Assange

Former high-ranking CIA official Ray McGovern denounces smear campaign against Julian Assange of Wikileaks

Juan Cole

Islamophobia
Fareed Zakaria Destroys Beck on Lunatic Islamophobia

Fareed Zakaria Destroys Beck on Lunatic Islamophobia

On his indispensable television news magazine, GPS, Fareed Zakaria demolishes Glenn Beck’s mind-numbingly stupid assertion that ten percent of Muslims are terrorists. Zakaria’s courage in […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Enormous Truck Bomb Kills 6 US Troops in Afghanistan as Constitutional Crisis Looms

Enormous Truck Bomb Kills 6 US Troops in Afghanistan as Constitutional Crisis Looms

The NYT reports that the Taliban deployed a massive truck bomb against a joint US-Afghan National Army forward operating base in the Arghandab river valley […]

Juan Cole

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