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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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Rupert Murdoch's Fox postpones Pirro, as his Sky Channel is Pulled from NZ Airwaves for airing Shooter's Video

Rupert Murdoch’s Fox postpones Pirro, as his Sky Channel is Pulled from NZ Airwaves for airing Shooter’s Video

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – World-straddling press lord Rupert Murdoch’s media is under pressure in the wake of the massacre of 50 worshipers by a […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
6 Palestinians Displaced by Israeli Policy to New Zealand Murdered by White Nationalist

6 Palestinians Displaced by Israeli Policy to New Zealand Murdered by White Nationalist

RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates declared, on Saturday, that through the Palestinian embassy in Australia’s contact with the Ministry […]

Maan News Agency

Bangladesh
Bangladesh to Exile 100K Rohingya Refugees to an Island "Prison"

Bangladesh to Exile 100K Rohingya Refugees to an Island “Prison”

Dumping a battered and traumatized people on Bhasan Char to face yet another threat to their survival is not a solution.

Human Rights Watch

Syria
Top Five Reasons the Syrian Revolution isn't Actually Over

Top Five Reasons the Syrian Revolution isn’t Actually Over

Displaced persons are eager to continue that most revolutionary act of building dignified lives

The Conversation

Islamophobia
New Zealand Mosque Survivor says Koran Bookshelf Saved Him

New Zealand Mosque Survivor says Koran Bookshelf Saved Him

Soon the Australian was inside the prayer hall, pumping round after round into the defenceless worshippers.

AFP

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Dear Sen. Anning re: Mosque Shooting:  The  Qur’an Forbids Murder and Commands Peacemaking

Dear Sen. Anning re: Mosque Shooting: The Qur’an Forbids Murder and Commands Peacemaking

the servants of the All-Merciful who walk humbly upon the earth—and when the unruly taunt them, they reply, ‘Peace!’

Juan Cole

Far Right
Christchurch Mosque Shootings must End Unconcern with Right-wing Terrorism

Christchurch Mosque Shootings must End Unconcern with Right-wing Terrorism

I looked at what some New Zealanders were saying online. It did not take long to discover the presence of hateful and anti-Muslim comments

The Conversation

Climate Change
Millions of Children Globally Skipped School to Protest Elders’ Climate Denialism, Destruction of their Future

Millions of Children Globally Skipped School to Protest Elders’ Climate Denialism, Destruction of their Future

By AFP bureaux | – Montreal (AFP) – Classrooms in capitals from Bangkok to Berlin and Lagos to London emptied as organizers of the student […]

AFP

Donald Trump
Trump Dismisses White Nationalism Threat after N. Zealand Killings

Trump Dismisses White Nationalism Threat after N. Zealand Killings

Brian Levin, director at the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, said that the problem could not be more real

AFP

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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

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Why the Saudi-Pakistan Bilateral Defense Pact is unlikely to Revive Muslim Unity

Abdullah al-Ahsan

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