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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
Ruining the Planet: Not only are the German Far Right Scary Racists, they're Climate Denialists to Boot

Ruining the Planet: Not only are the German Far Right Scary Racists, they’re Climate Denialists to Boot

Right-wing parties poised to bring climate scepticism to European parliament, with Germany’s AfD leading the way

Clean Energy Wire

Israel/ Palestine
Why Hunger Strikes? Most of the 800,000 Palestinians who have cycled through Israeli Jails haven't Committed a Crime

Why Hunger Strikes? Most of the 800,000 Palestinians who have cycled through Israeli Jails haven’t Committed a Crime

One of the many ways in which Israel seeks to oppress and control the Palestinian population is by imprisoning those who lead the resistance to […]

Ramzy Baroud

Democratic Party
The Democrats can Crush unpopular Trump in 2020, but only if they Run to the Left

The Democrats can Crush unpopular Trump in 2020, but only if they Run to the Left

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A new CNN/SSRS poll of about 1,000 people shows that among a random sample of registered voters, Bernie Sanders and […]

Juan Cole

Democratic Socialism
The GOP is Demonizing the Left in New Red Scare, but US Public wants . . . Socialism

The GOP is Demonizing the Left in New Red Scare, but US Public wants . . . Socialism

The policies they’re attacking are enormously popular with America’s workaday majority

Jim Hightower

Arab Spring
How the Mideast Officer Corps and Trump derailed the Arab Spring-- and Hope

How the Mideast Officer Corps and Trump derailed the Arab Spring– and Hope

( Tomdispatch.com ) – “Al-Shebab,” said my student Jerry early in the fall 2010 semester. “We’re calling our small group al-Shebab. It means ‘The Youth.’” […]

Rebecca Gordon

Israel/ Palestine
Did Saudi Arabia offer Palestine Pres. Mahmoud Abbas Billions to bow to Kushner ‘Deal of Century’?

Did Saudi Arabia offer Palestine Pres. Mahmoud Abbas Billions to bow to Kushner ‘Deal of Century’?

Abbas said it would “mean the end of my political life,” according to sources

Maan News Agency

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Super-Majority of Arab Youth in New Poll say Religion too Important in Public Life

Super-Majority of Arab Youth in New Poll say Religion too Important in Public Life

Fully 79%, almost 4 in 5, say that the Arab world desperately needs to reform its religious institutions

Juan Cole

Yemen
The Yemen War is one of the Most Destructive since the Cold War:  UN

The Yemen War is one of the Most Destructive since the Cold War: UN

If the war were to end in 2019, the UNDP projects it would account for 140,000 deaths of children under the age of 5

Middle East Monitor

Bill of Rights
Why the Assange indictment is a Threat to the US First Amendment

Why the Assange indictment is a Threat to the US First Amendment

The American government has traditionally abstained from charging publishers of classified information for the crime of publication

The Conversation

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“They say the Lion and the Lizard keep the Courts:” Edward FitzGerald’s the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:17

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

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