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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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Human Rights
War Crime: Syrian Regime Killed Hundreds of Civilians, including Children, with Airstrikes on Aleppo

War Crime: Syrian Regime Killed Hundreds of Civilians, including Children, with Airstrikes on Aleppo

(By Ole Solvang, senior emergencies researcher, Human Rights Watch) < Dozens of government airstrikes that have killed hundreds of civilians, including children, in Aleppo governorate […]

Juan Cole

Arab Spring
From Tahrir to New Orleans:  Hope has not Failed, it has only Begun

From Tahrir to New Orleans: Hope has not Failed, it has only Begun

(By Rebecca Solnit) Hope, History, and UnpredictabilityBy Rebecca Solnit North American cicada nymphs live underground for 17 years before they emerge as adults. Many seeds […]

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A Christian Bride of Mosul, Iraq, 1903 (Photo of the Day)

A Christian Bride of Mosul, Iraq, 1903 (Photo of the Day)

Caption: A Mosul Bride: The girl in the centre of the picture is a Christian bride decked out in her wedding costume. The gold coins, […]

Juan Cole

China
Coleridge, Kubla Khan (Poem of the Day)

Coleridge, Kubla Khan (Poem of the Day)

(By Samuel Taylor Coleridge) Kubla Khan Or, a vision in a dream. A Fragment. In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, […]

contributors

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The End of the Turkish Model?  Erdogan's Paranoia and Authoritarian Streak Threaten his Legacy

The End of the Turkish Model? Erdogan’s Paranoia and Authoritarian Streak Threaten his Legacy

(By Juan Cole) Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan is sounding more and more hysterical, and less and less like a statesman as 2013 ends. If […]

Juan Cole

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Top Five Differences between Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson and Miley Cyrus

Top Five Differences between Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson and Miley Cyrus

(By Juan Cole) Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal last week defended Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson and slammed pop diva Miley Cyrus. He said, “The politically […]

Juan Cole

Top US academic association decries Israel boycott

Top US academic association decries Israel boycott

Association of American Universities releases statement saying measure ‘clearly violates’ academic freedom

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Afghanistan
FDL Book Salon on Andrew Bacevich, Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country

FDL Book Salon on Andrew Bacevich, Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country

Hosting Book Salon at Firedoglake: FDL Book Salon Welcomes Andrew J. Bacevich, Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country Author: Juan […]

Juan Cole

Gov’t lost its legitimacy: Turkey's main opposition leader

Gov’t lost its legitimacy: Turkey's main opposition leader

Turkey’s main opposition leader has raised the pressure on the government over the massive graft probe

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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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