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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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Climate Change
Climate Disaster: Our CO2 Levels are Dangerously High, but add in the Methane and it is Much Worse

Climate Disaster: Our CO2 Levels are Dangerously High, but add in the Methane and it is Much Worse

By Zoe Loh, Blagoj Mitrevski, David Etheridge, Nada Derek, Paul Fraser, Paul Krummel, Paul Steele, Ray Langenfelds, and Sam Cleland | – This week brought […]

The Conversation

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On D-Day:  Remembering the Muslim Troops who Fought the Axis

On D-Day: Remembering the Muslim Troops who Fought the Axis

Updated. By Juan Cole One of the frustrations for a world historian is the unyieldingly parochial vision of the North Atlantic common among journalists and […]

Juan Cole

War
Trump's Plan to Pardon War Criminals is Outrageous, but the Higher-Ups were Never even Charged

Trump’s Plan to Pardon War Criminals is Outrageous, but the Higher-Ups were Never even Charged

By Rebecca Gordon | – (Tomdispatch.com) – Memorial Day has come and gone and President Trump did not issue his pardons after all. There was […]

Rebecca Gordon

Climate Change
Hey, Psst, Prince Charles: Here are Some Graphs on Global Heating that maybe Even Trump could Understand

Hey, Psst, Prince Charles: Here are Some Graphs on Global Heating that maybe Even Trump could Understand

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump says that a meeting with Prince Charles that was supposed to last for 15 minutes extended to an hour […]

Juan Cole

Sudan
Sudan Democracy Protesters Reject Negotiations with Military after Bloody Crackdown

Sudan Democracy Protesters Reject Negotiations with Military after Bloody Crackdown

Sudan’s military rulers offered to resume talks with opposition groups on Wednesday, two days after security forces mounted a deadly raid on a protest camp, […]

Middle East Monitor

Antisemitism
In US History, Islamophobia and anti-Semitism have Gone together as Hate Speech

In US History, Islamophobia and anti-Semitism have Gone together as Hate Speech

By Peter Gottschalk | – Congresswoman Ilhan Omar tweeted recently that “Islamophobia and anti-Semitism are two sides of the same bigoted coin.” Her comments came […]

The Conversation

Climate Change
The Other Climate Threat is Fear & Apathy:  We can Fix this by Voting in a Manhattan Project

The Other Climate Threat is Fear & Apathy: We can Fix this by Voting in a Manhattan Project

( Otherwords.org) – If you feel powerless, remember that the biggest change you can make is to support leaders who think our planet is actually […]

Jill Richardson

Qur'an
Headcanon: Review of Juan Cole, “Muhammad: Prophet of Peace” at Northwest Progressive Institute

Headcanon: Review of Juan Cole, “Muhammad: Prophet of Peace” at Northwest Progressive Institute

David A. Johnson has written, for The Cascadia Advocate (a project of the Northwest Progressive Institute), a review of my new book on the Prophet […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Why Britain Protested: Trump a "Sexual Predator" and "Racist" says Shadow FM

Why Britain Protested: Trump a “Sexual Predator” and “Racist” says Shadow FM

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump feigned not to see them or imagined them as putting out a welcome mat for him, but the actual […]

Juan Cole

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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

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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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