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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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Islam
Dawn Newspaper: Contextualizing the Dawn of Islam:  Glowing Review of Cole’s Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires

Dawn Newspaper: Contextualizing the Dawn of Islam: Glowing Review of Cole’s Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires

Hachette Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires By Juan Cole Bold Type Books, US ISBN: 978-1568587837 336pp. By Taha Ali | – […]

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Are Young Arabs Abandoning Religion?

Are Young Arabs Abandoning Religion?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Arab Barometer in partnership with the BBC has interviewed a weighted sample of 25,000 people in the Arab world. […]

Juan Cole

Nonviolence
Can the Anti-War Movement of the Silent Majority stop Trump's Warmongers?

Can the Anti-War Movement of the Silent Majority stop Trump’s Warmongers?

By Allegra Harpootlian | – (Tomdispatch.com) – When Donald Trump entered the Oval Office in January 2017, Americans took to the streets all across the […]

Tomdispatch

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Erdogan's Agony: Has Istanbul just begun saving Turkish Democracy?

Erdogan’s Agony: Has Istanbul just begun saving Turkish Democracy?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Istanbul has clapped back for democracy big time, electing as mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu of the secular Republican Peoples Party. İmamoğlu […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Trump's Dismantling of our Government: Deregulating our Way to Disaster

Trump’s Dismantling of our Government: Deregulating our Way to Disaster

(Informed Comment) – While Trump’s xenophobic and protectionist agenda, thankfully often blocked by the courts, has received the lion’s share of media attention, his henchmen […]

John Buell

Iran
Mideast Peril: How Hardliners in Washington and Tehran are Reinforcing Each Other

Mideast Peril: How Hardliners in Washington and Tehran are Reinforcing Each Other

London (Informed Comment) – Donald Trump’s increasingly aggressive stance towards the Islamic Republic of Iran to supposedly curtail its nuclear capabilities is doomed to fail, […]

Jonathan Fenton-Harvey

Iran
Trump caught in Iran War Trap of his own Making

Trump caught in Iran War Trap of his own Making

Kuwait City (Informed Comment) – Iran–US tensions have reached the tipping point. The downing of a Global Hawk RQ4C surveillance drone, a high prized US […]

Mohammed Nuruzzaman

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Dear Trump:  Iran doesn't Have a Military Nuclear Program and Gave up Bomb-Making Potential

Dear Trump: Iran doesn’t Have a Military Nuclear Program and Gave up Bomb-Making Potential

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Julian Borger at The Guardian reports that Trump said Saturday to reporters, “They’re not going to have a nuclear weapon. […]

Juan Cole

Immigration
Why Interning Refugee Children In Military Bases puts them at Risk in Age of Trump

Why Interning Refugee Children In Military Bases puts them at Risk in Age of Trump

By Jana Lipman | – Fort Sill, an army base in Oklahoma, will soon become a refugee camp. The Department of Health and Human Services […]

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