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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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Constitution
Dropbox putting NSA Spying advocate Condi Rice on its board Shocks Privacy Advocates

Dropbox putting NSA Spying advocate Condi Rice on its board Shocks Privacy Advocates

YESTERDAY’S ANNOUNCEMENT that former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has joined the board of Dropbox has set tongues a-wagging in the IT sector. The company said Ms Rice be involved in securing a foothold in international territories, particularly…

Juan Cole

Internet
Standing on the Titanic:  Meaningless Iraq Campaign Posters Provoke Satire, Ridicule on Facebook

Standing on the Titanic: Meaningless Iraq Campaign Posters Provoke Satire, Ridicule on Facebook

(By Kholoud Ramzi, Baghdad, for Niqash) Election posters have become a joke to cynical Iraqi voters. Election campaign posters are telling cynical Iraqi voters nothing […]

Juan Cole

Christians
If Jesus had a wife, would it change the GOP War on Women?

If Jesus had a wife, would it change the GOP War on Women?

(By Juan Cole) A Coptic fragmentary manuscript page that dates back to a few hundred years after Jesus’ death (and the text of which may […]

Juan Cole

Turkish schools abroad victims of AKP-Gulen conflict

Turkish schools abroad victims of AKP-Gulen conflict

The struggle between the AKP and the Gulen movement threatens more than 2,000 Turkish schools abroad, which have been seen as the country’s most “valuable […]

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Climate Change
Tutu: Climate Crisis Demands we Boycott Big Oil just as we Boycotted Apartheid

Tutu: Climate Crisis Demands we Boycott Big Oil just as we Boycotted Apartheid

(By Jon Queally) Nobel laureate says ‘people of conscience’ must break ties with oil and gas companies that are destroying planet’s future. Archbishop of South […]

Juan Cole

media
CBS Taps Colbert To Replace Letterman, Limbaugh Bursts Into Flames

CBS Taps Colbert To Replace Letterman, Limbaugh Bursts Into Flames

This could be the single event that our grandchildren — well, the privileged ones who know how to read and have access to e-books and such — will know as the straw that broke the left wing’s back. No less of a historian than Rush Limbaugh declared…

Juan Cole

Human Rights
Jazz legend John McLaughlin Plays Ramallah, Palestine to counteract Palestinian "Isolation"

Jazz legend John McLaughlin Plays Ramallah, Palestine to counteract Palestinian “Isolation”

Jazz guitar legend John McLaughlin plays for Palestine (via AFP) The Palestinian territories are rarely a destination for jazz musicians let alone stars of an […]

Juan Cole

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GOP Armed Services Chair:  Dropping Benghazi, Military did all it Could (Is the Witch Hunt Over?)

GOP Armed Services Chair: Dropping Benghazi, Military did all it Could (Is the Witch Hunt Over?)

(By Juan Cole) Republican Rep. Howard “Buck” McKeon, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, declared on Thursday that the US military did all it […]

Juan Cole

Public library opens on Abu Dhabi’s Corniche beach

Public library opens on Abu Dhabi’s Corniche beach

The beach library has four desktop computers and 14 iPads that are available to search the collections.

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

Juan Cole

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

The Conversation

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

Committee on Academic Freedom

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Why the Saudi-Pakistan Bilateral Defense Pact is unlikely to Revive Muslim Unity

Abdullah al-Ahsan

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