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The Mortal Sins of Patriarchy
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The Mortal Sins of Patriarchy

H. Patricia Hynes

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 […]

The 6 Superpowers that Faith Communities bring to nonviolent Struggle

The 6 Superpowers that Faith Communities bring to nonviolent Struggle

10/05/2025 By Waging Nonviolence

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

10/05/2025 By The Conversation

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Immigration
Trump’s Family Separation Continues: “I Just Want to Tell My Son I Love Him”

Trump’s Family Separation Continues: “I Just Want to Tell My Son I Love Him”

Many parents at Port Isabel — the primary facility housing separated parents — don’t know where their children are

ProPublica

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Whitey on the Moon Again?

Whitey on the Moon Again?

The likelihood is that the government will pay for the lunar space station with borrowed money, making it enormously expensive

Juan Cole

Pentagon
The only Infrastructure Rebuilding Trump is doing is $700 Bn for the Pentagon

The only Infrastructure Rebuilding Trump is doing is $700 Bn for the Pentagon

A combination of fear, ideology, and influence peddling radically skews “debate” there in favor of military outlays above all else

Tomdispatch

Mexico
Leftist Wave sweeps Mexico: Can Lopez Obrador take on Corruption, Poverty… & Trump?

Leftist Wave sweeps Mexico: Can Lopez Obrador take on Corruption, Poverty… & Trump?

Lopez Obrador also benefited from widespread voter anger at the establishment political parties

Reese Erlich

Health
Burning Fossil fuels Even Causes Diabetes!  Air Pollution and Blood Glucose

Burning Fossil fuels Even Causes Diabetes! Air Pollution and Blood Glucose

Air pollution caused one in seven new cases of diabetes in 2016, according to a US study

AFP

Syria
Regime reclaims more ground in south Syria: monitor

Regime reclaims more ground in south Syria: monitor

A string of rebel-held locations in southern Syria passed into regime control Sunday

AFP

Donald Trump
Trump Luminaries at Iranian Jihadi Cult Conference in Paris while Excluding Nice Iranians from Immigration

Trump Luminaries at Iranian Jihadi Cult Conference in Paris while Excluding Nice Iranians from Immigration

Many Trump stalwarts have a peculiar, paid position as lobbyists for a group aiming to overthrow the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Juan Cole

Left Politics
Not Extreme: Sanders' and Ocasio-Cortez's Leftism has been core to the Democratic Party

Not Extreme: Sanders’ and Ocasio-Cortez’s Leftism has been core to the Democratic Party

Many positions viewed as “extreme” by beltway pundits today were mainstream through much of the 20th century

John Buell

Israel
As Assad Advances on South, Israel Warns Syrian Army away from Occupied Golan

As Assad Advances on South, Israel Warns Syrian Army away from Occupied Golan

Israel beefed up its tank and artillery deployment on the Golan Heights frontier with Syria on Sunday, a statement said

Middle East Monitor

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