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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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Israel/ Palestine
Slo-Mo Ethnic Cleansing: Israel has forced 3,000 Palestinians from their Jerusalem Homes in 15 Years

Slo-Mo Ethnic Cleansing: Israel has forced 3,000 Palestinians from their Jerusalem Homes in 15 Years

The authorities are deliberately denying Palestinians construction permits

Maan News Agency

Constitution
Mueller thinks Trump Committed Obstruction:  Why he Wrote to Barr and why Barr Lied

Mueller thinks Trump Committed Obstruction: Why he Wrote to Barr and why Barr Lied

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment): Devlin Barrett and Matt Zapotosky at WaPo broke the story that Special Counsel Bob Mueller wrote a sharp letter to Attorney […]

Juan Cole

Pentagon
Top 6 Ways to Curb America's Skyrocketing Military Tab

Top 6 Ways to Curb America’s Skyrocketing Military Tab

War is the ultimate audit and, as any American should know, the Pentagon is incapable of passing an audit

William J. Astore

Israel/ Palestine
Palestinians are Suing the Illegal Israeli Squatters who List Stolen Property on AirBnB

Palestinians are Suing the Illegal Israeli Squatters who List Stolen Property on AirBnB

This is the first time that Palestinians are challenging the settlers living on their land in US courts

Middle East Monitor

Israel/ Palestine
Israel Raids, Stops Solar Panel Installation in Palestinian Jordan Valley

Israel Raids, Stops Solar Panel Installation in Palestinian Jordan Valley

TUBAS (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities delivered a stop-construction notice to solar panels, in the northern Jordan Valley, in the occupied West Bank, ordering halt of […]

Maan News Agency

Authoritarianism
Are we Trapped in Orwell's '1984'?

Are we Trapped in Orwell’s ‘1984’?

It teaches us that power and tyranny are made possible through the use of words and how they are mediated

The Conversation

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In our National Interest? 250K Yemenis now Starving to Death, with 233K already dead in Trump-Backed War

In our National Interest? 250K Yemenis now Starving to Death, with 233K already dead in Trump-Backed War

140,000 of the dead are children under 5

Juan Cole

Saudi Arabia
Saudis Accused of Serious Crimes Aided in Fleeing US as Officials Turn Blind Eye

Saudis Accused of Serious Crimes Aided in Fleeing US as Officials Turn Blind Eye

By Sebastian Rotella and Tim Golden (ProPublica), with Shane Dixon Kavanaugh, The Oregonian/OregonLive This story was co-published with The Oregonian/OregonLive. The FBI, Department of Homeland […]

ProPublica

Sudan
Sudan: How Protestors Carved out a Space to Challenge Dictatorship

Sudan: How Protestors Carved out a Space to Challenge Dictatorship

Hundreds of thousands of people marched to the Sudanese Army’s headquarters in the Ministry of Defence’s complex

The Conversation

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