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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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Alleging False Flag, Iran Speaker accuses US of Gulf of Oman Tanker Attacks

Alleging False Flag, Iran Speaker accuses US of Gulf of Oman Tanker Attacks

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Iran’s speaker of parliament, Ali Larijani, said Monday that he believed that the United States might have staged the attack […]

Juan Cole

Sudan
As Military Junta consolidates Rule in Sudan, Masses demand Civilian Government

As Military Junta consolidates Rule in Sudan, Masses demand Civilian Government

By Khalil Charles | @khalilcharles | – Historians and political scientists who have followed recent events in Sudan closely will point to the irony of […]

Middle East Monitor

Elections
Why the Information Arms Race is a Rat Race: Can we Secure our Elections?

Why the Information Arms Race is a Rat Race: Can we Secure our Elections?

By Cailin O’Connor | – (Aeon) – Arms races happen when two sides of a conflict escalate in a series of ever-changing moves intended to […]

Aeon

African-Americans
No African-American has won Office in Mississippi in 129 Years-- Here's Why

No African-American has won Office in Mississippi in 129 Years– Here’s Why

By John A. Tures | – Mississippi is home to the highest percentage of African Americans of any state in the country. And yet, Mississippi […]

The Conversation

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Trump Heights on Stolen Golan an Indictment of Colonial White Privilege

Trump Heights on Stolen Golan an Indictment of Colonial White Privilege

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a publicity stunt Trumpian in its iniquity and emptiness, the government of Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu put up […]

Juan Cole

Employment
Renewable Energy Employed 11 Million People last Year, 8% Growth Forecast

Renewable Energy Employed 11 Million People last Year, 8% Growth Forecast

In the US, “The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that wind turbine technician jobs will be the second-fastest-growing occupation through 2026

Clean Energy Wire

racism
How can Society deter Rogue Police who Shoot unarmed Black People?

How can Society deter Rogue Police who Shoot unarmed Black People?

By Zenobia Jeffries Warfield | – (Yes! Magazine) – Since the police killings of Botham Jean in Dallas and Emantic “E.J.” Bradford in Birmingham, Alabama, […]

Yes! Magazine

Turkey
Turkey Must Stop Prosecuting, Imprisoning Scholars for Signing a Peace Petition (Yes)

Turkey Must Stop Prosecuting, Imprisoning Scholars for Signing a Peace Petition (Yes)

Committee on Academic Freedom Middle East Studies Association of North America, Inc. H.E. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan President of the Republic of Turkey T.C. Cumhurbaşkanlığı Genel […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

Donald Trump
If Donald Trump is the Symptom, Then What is the Disease?

If Donald Trump is the Symptom, Then What is the Disease?

(Tomdispatch.com) – Don’t try to deny it! The political temperature of this country is rising fast. Call it Trump change or Trump warming, if you […]

Tom Engelhardt

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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

Israel/ Palestine

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

The Conversation

Academic Freedom

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

Committee on Academic Freedom

Arab World

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

Abdullah al-Ahsan

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