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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
Going Green has to be Systemic & Legislated: "Personal Responsibility" is a Corporate Dodge

Going Green has to be Systemic & Legislated: “Personal Responsibility” is a Corporate Dodge

If environmental solutions aren’t systemic, living green will always mean going against the grain — and usually failing.

Jill Richardson

Colonialism
How Colonialists Led the Way to our Environmental Crisis of Over-Exploitation

How Colonialists Led the Way to our Environmental Crisis of Over-Exploitation

Our understanding of colonialism is often limited to simple ideas about what we think colonialism looked like in the past

The Conversation

Corruption
The Seychelles Plot:  Mueller on the UAE Role in Russian Influence-Peddling with Trump and Kushner

The Seychelles Plot: Mueller on the UAE Role in Russian Influence-Peddling with Trump and Kushner

The Mueller report sheds further light on the infamous Seychelles meeting in January, 2017, which appears to have aimed at establishing a back channel for […]

Juan Cole

Sudan
How Women are leading the Sudanese Revolution

How Women are leading the Sudanese Revolution

In 2017, 24 women were arrested for wearing trousers

Global Voices

Christianity
Why Good Friday was Dangerous for Jews in the Middle Ages and how that Changed

Why Good Friday was Dangerous for Jews in the Middle Ages and how that Changed

By Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski | – As Christians observe Good Friday they will remember, with devotion and prayer, the death of Jesus on the Cross. It […]

The Conversation

Education
De-Funding the Great American School System for the 1%

De-Funding the Great American School System for the 1%

(Tomdispatch.com) – Three weeks ago, I sat in a cramped conference room in the large public high school where I teach in Beaverton, Oregon. I […]

Belle Chesler

Israel/ Palestine
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls for slashing US Aid to Israel over Netanyahu Reelection

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls for slashing US Aid to Israel over Netanyahu Reelection

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu pledged during his election to annex Palestinian lands in the West Bank

Middle East Monitor

Donald Trump
After Mueller: A Majority of Americans believes Trump is Guilty of Obstruction, wants him Impeached

After Mueller: A Majority of Americans believes Trump is Guilty of Obstruction, wants him Impeached

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A new Associated Press – NORC Poll finds that a majority of Americans, 53%, want Congress to go on investigating […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Revealed: Trump-linked US Christian fundamentalists boost European Far Right with Dark Money Millions

Revealed: Trump-linked US Christian fundamentalists boost European Far Right with Dark Money Millions

By Claire Provost and Adam Ramsay | – ( OpenDemocracy.net) – US Christian right ‘fundamentalists’ linked to the Trump administration and Steve Bannon are among […]

Open Democracy

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