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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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Authoritarianism
Turkey’s Long Nightmare: Remembering the Night of the Coup

Turkey’s Long Nightmare: Remembering the Night of the Coup

Cüneyt Özdemir | (Duke University Middle East Studies Center | – – Cüneyt Özdemir is a columnist and investigative journalist with 28 years experience reporting […]

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Islam-hatred
Why Designating Muslim Brotherhood 'Terrorists' will harm Democracy at home and Abroad

Why Designating Muslim Brotherhood ‘Terrorists’ will harm Democracy at home and Abroad

Human Rights Watch | – – (Washington, DC) – A US government designation of the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization, which the Trump […]

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Bernie Sanders
Is the answer to Alt-NeoNazism Bernie’s Democratic Socialism?

Is the answer to Alt-NeoNazism Bernie’s Democratic Socialism?

TeleSur | – – Maria Svart of DSA speaks to teleSUR about how her organization is using Sanders’ vision to fight Trump and neoliberalism within […]

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China
Could Trump's War of Words with China turn Hot?

Could Trump’s War of Words with China turn Hot?

By Rajan Menon | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – Forget those “bad hombres down there” in Mexico that U.S. troops might take out. Ignore the […]

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Donald Trump
Can Peak Gerrymandering by GOP be Challenged by Progressives?

Can Peak Gerrymandering by GOP be Challenged by Progressives?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – In a dramatic outcome that could well change national politics, a Federal court last November found […]

Juan Cole

art and photography
Image of the Day:  “Jonah and the Whale” (Persian Miniature)

Image of the Day: “Jonah and the Whale” (Persian Miniature)

Metropolitan Museum of Art | (Persian Miniature Painting) | – – “Jonah and the Whale”, Folio from a Jami al-Tavarikh (Compendium of Chronicles [A medieval […]

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Climate Change
Give us your Huddled Scientists:  France woos US Climate Researchers, Inventors in age of Trump

Give us your Huddled Scientists: France woos US Climate Researchers, Inventors in age of Trump

By Frédéric Simon | EurActiv.com | – – The United States of America. Home of the free. Land of the brave. And, until Donald Trump […]

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Palestine
Racist Trump blocks UN Envoy for Libya because, Palestinian

Racist Trump blocks UN Envoy for Libya because, Palestinian

Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) slammed the United States for objecting to a proposal by the […]

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Green Energy
Renewables now creating more jobs than Coal, Oil and Gas

Renewables now creating more jobs than Coal, Oil and Gas

TeleSur The findings of a new U.S.report bolster climate justice movement arguments that transitioning to renewables will not only save the planet but save the […]

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