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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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Top 10 Signs that Israeli Gov’t is starving People in Gaza

Top 10 Signs that Israeli Gov’t is starving People in Gaza

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli military has destroyed most of the cropland in Gaza and won’t let Palestinians fish. There isn’t enough food […]

Juan Cole

Druze
Israel is exploiting the Vacuum left by southern Syria’s sectarian Clashes and a weak State

Israel is exploiting the Vacuum left by southern Syria’s sectarian Clashes and a weak State

By Rob Geist Pinfold, King’s College London (The Conversation) – Several days of bitter sectarian fighting in the south of Syria brought the fledgling government […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
Whose Country is this, Anyway: The Struggle to Survive Trump

Whose Country is this, Anyway: The Struggle to Survive Trump

The Struggle to Thrive and Not Just Barely Survive in Trump’s America By Liz Theoharis and Noam Sandweiss-Back ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Most days, in […]

Liz Theoharis

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As Huckabee and MTG attack Israel over anti-Christian Pogroms, is the Alliance with White Christian Nationalism  Fraying?

As Huckabee and MTG attack Israel over anti-Christian Pogroms, is the Alliance with White Christian Nationalism Fraying?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israeli squatters on Palestinian land in the militarily occupied West Bank conducted a pogrom against the Christian-majority village of Taybeh, […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
“I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know it When I see It.” – Omer Bartov on Gaza

“I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know it When I see It.” – Omer Bartov on Gaza

Democracy Now! .   Watch Full Show Guests Omer Bartov Israeli American scholar, professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University. Links “I’m a […]

Democracy Now!

Kurds
Lessons from a historic Act of Disarmament in Kurdistan

Lessons from a historic Act of Disarmament in Kurdistan

After decades of armed struggle, the PKK is laying down its weapons and beginning a new nonviolent chapter in the Kurdish independence movement. Matt Meyer […]

Waging Nonviolence

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Stephen Colbert and I:  The Tightening of Right-Wing Censorship

Stephen Colbert and I: The Tightening of Right-Wing Censorship

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Paramount Global corporation has fired late night comedian Stephen Colbert even though Colbert dominated his time spot. Paramount owns […]

Juan Cole

Artificial Intelligence
Turkey becomes the First to Censor Musk’s AI Chatbot Grok

Turkey becomes the First to Censor Musk’s AI Chatbot Grok

Written byArzu Geybullayeva ( Globalvoices.org ) – On July 9, a court blocked access to some of the content shared by Grok, the artificial intelligence […]

Arzu Geybullayeva

Climate Crisis
Green Energy and protecting Nature get the Thumbs up in Climate Change study in 68 Countries

Green Energy and protecting Nature get the Thumbs up in Climate Change study in 68 Countries

Marina Joubert, Stellenbosch University (The Conservative) – Africa has begun experiencing frequent extreme weather events. Extreme weather is defined as the kind of heatwaves, droughts, […]

The Conversation

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

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