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As Ceasefire Looms, Gaza’s Children are Still Starving
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As Ceasefire Looms, Gaza’s Children are Still Starving

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Trump peace plan has resulted in an agreement between Hamas and Israel to pause fighting and exchange prisoners. Other […]

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Urgent Next Steps for Palestine at the UN, Regardless of the Trump Plan

Urgent Next Steps for Palestine at the UN, Regardless of the Trump Plan

10/09/2025 By Nicolas J. S. Davies

Forced to Work on an Overheating Planet

Forced to Work on an Overheating Planet

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Goodbye Petrostates, Hello ‘Electrostates’: how the clean Energy Shift is reshaping the World Order

Goodbye Petrostates, Hello ‘Electrostates’: how the clean Energy Shift is reshaping the World Order

By Niusha Shafiabady, Australian Catholic University and Xiaoying Qi, Australian Catholic University (The Conversation) – For more than a century, global geopolitics has revolved around […]

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Donald Trump
How Trump is Demolishing U. S. Global Power and its World Order

How Trump is Demolishing U. S. Global Power and its World Order

( Tomdispatch.com ) – In his novel The Autumn of the Patriarch, which is eerily evocative of our current political plight, Gabriel Garcia Marquez described […]

Alfred W. McCoy

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The Mortal Sins of Patriarchy

The Mortal Sins of Patriarchy

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – How much are women and girls–half of humanity–valued?  When men violate us for sex in prostitution.  When […]

H. Patricia Hynes

Authoritarianism
The 6 Superpowers that Faith Communities bring to nonviolent Struggle

The 6 Superpowers that Faith Communities bring to nonviolent Struggle

While religion has far too often been a tool of authoritarianism, faith institutions and communities have also been the life force of so many freedom […]

Waging Nonviolence

Israel/ Palestine
Hamas and Israel are on the Verge of a Ceasefire; Denial of Palestinian Agency Could Derail it

Hamas and Israel are on the Verge of a Ceasefire; Denial of Palestinian Agency Could Derail it

By Martin Kear, University of Sydney (The Conversation) – Hamas announced that it has accepted several parts of the peace plan put forth by US […]

The Conversation

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It Doesn’t Have to Hurt:  Sanjay Gupta on the New Neurobiology of Pain

It Doesn’t Have to Hurt: Sanjay Gupta on the New Neurobiology of Pain

BY Richard Penaskovic | – Review of Sanjay Gupta, It Doesn’t Have to Hurt:Your Smart Guide to a Pain-free Life. (New York: Simon & Schuster, […]

Richard Penaskovic

Iran
“They say the Lion and the Lizard keep the Courts:” Edward FitzGerald’s the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám  1:17

“They say the Lion and the Lizard keep the Courts:” Edward FitzGerald’s the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:17

Quatrain 17 of the first edition of Edward FitzGerald’s the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám continues the theme that kingly glory quickly fades. XVII. They say […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israel’s Abduction of the Gaza Aid Flotilla is a clear Violation of International Law

Israel’s Abduction of the Gaza Aid Flotilla is a clear Violation of International Law

By Donald Rothwell, Australian National University (The Conversation) – The Israel Defence Force has intercepted a flotilla of humanitarian vessels seeking to deliver aid to […]

The Conversation

Academic Freedom
Protesting Northwestern U’s Flawed Compulsory Training on Criticism of Israel as “Antisemitism”

Protesting Northwestern U’s Flawed Compulsory Training on Criticism of Israel as “Antisemitism”

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Letter to Northwestern University expressing concern about its flawed compulsory anti-bias training and its […]

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