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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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Turkey
Turkey's Erdogan Lost Key Cities in Paranoiac Campaign that ignored Sinking Economy

Turkey’s Erdogan Lost Key Cities in Paranoiac Campaign that ignored Sinking Economy

By Ihsan Yilmaz and Erdoan Shipoli | – Votes are still being counted in local elections that took place across Turkey on Sunday, but so […]

The Conversation

Climate Change
We Don't have a Global Emissions Problem, we Have a Rich Peoples' CO2 Problem

We Don’t have a Global Emissions Problem, we Have a Rich Peoples’ CO2 Problem

American congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently shook up environmental politics by releasing a broad outline of a Green New Deal

The Conversation

Saudi Arabia
Saudi Political Prisoners Face Severe Abuse: Report

Saudi Political Prisoners Face Severe Abuse: Report

The Kingdom is under heavy scrutiny following the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul last October

Middle East Monitor

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Syrian Ambassador: Trump should give Israel the Carolinas, instead of Syria's Golan

Syrian Ambassador: Trump should give Israel the Carolinas, instead of Syria’s Golan

Jaafari said that the United States had completely ended any role for itself as a mediator in the region

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
The Great March of Return is a Turning Point in Palestinian Collective Memory

The Great March of Return is a Turning Point in Palestinian Collective Memory

People from all walks of life took part in what was dubbed the “Million Man March”

Middle East Monitor

Israel/ Palestine
Incremental Settler Colonialism: Israel to Approve 5,000 new Squatter Units in Palestinian West Bank

Incremental Settler Colonialism: Israel to Approve 5,000 new Squatter Units in Palestinian West Bank

Between 500,000 and 600,000 Israelis have moved into squatter settlements in occupied Palestinian territory, in violation of international law

AFP

Pentagon
Goodbye to All That: The Forever Wars Go on Without Me

Goodbye to All That: The Forever Wars Go on Without Me

I’m active now in what little there is of an antiwar movement in this country

Danny Sjursen

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Israeli Snipers Kill 4, wound 207 as 40,000 Palestinians March Peacefully in Gaza for Right to Return

Israeli Snipers Kill 4, wound 207 as 40,000 Palestinians March Peacefully in Gaza for Right to Return

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – As an unprecedented 40,000 Palestinians in Gaza marched for the right to return, marking the one-year anniversary of the beginning […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
Global Heating Helped Cause the Massive Midwest Floods but TV Didn't Tell you That

Global Heating Helped Cause the Massive Midwest Floods but TV Didn’t Tell you That

Climate change is likely to cause a disproportionate increase in heavy precipitation events in the Midwest, a trend that is already apparent

The Conversation

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Juan Cole

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

The Conversation

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