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HerStory: Feminism is the Route to Peace
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HerStory: Feminism is the Route to Peace

H. Patricia Hynes

Young people in more than 60 countries were taught about preserving nature and how to work for environmental good in their communities

How a US/Israeli Strike on Iran could Provoke a wider Conflict

How a US/Israeli Strike on Iran could Provoke a wider Conflict

02/01/2026 By Paul Rogers

Hebrew Orientalism: Jewish Engagement with Arab-Islamic Culture in late Ottoman and British Palestine

Hebrew Orientalism: Jewish Engagement with Arab-Islamic Culture in late Ottoman and British Palestine

02/01/2026 By Middle East Monitor

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Africa
Alshabab attack on Nairobi a Sign of Political Defeat

Alshabab attack on Nairobi a Sign of Political Defeat

The horrible attack on the Westgate Mall in Nairobi by members of the Alshabab terrorist group from neighboring Somalia is the act of a declining […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Top Five Wind Energy Successes Today

Top Five Wind Energy Successes Today

Wind energy at the moment is by the apparent numbers less expensive than solar, and huge wind farms are being opened throughout the world. There […]

Juan Cole

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Americans Drawing the Line on Day of Action against Keystone XL (Lazare)

Americans Drawing the Line on Day of Action against Keystone XL (Lazare)

Sarah Lazare writes at Commondreams.org: In towns and cities across the U.S., demonstrators are 'drawing the line' Saturday demanding that President Obama protect people and […]

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European Union
Israeli Troops attack European Diplomats on Aid Mission

Israeli Troops attack European Diplomats on Aid Mission

First the Israelis again erased a Palestinian population, ruling that the 120 Bedouin inhabitants of Khirbet Makhul in the Occupied Palestinian West Bank did not […]

Juan Cole

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I lived to See the Day when the Pope and the President of Iran are more doctrinally Flexible than the GOP

I lived to See the Day when the Pope and the President of Iran are more doctrinally Flexible than the GOP

The United States has all along been a society dominated by the wealthy, and more especially by the business classes. But businesspeople are not all […]

Juan Cole

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Top 5 Ways to Get a more Equal America (Reich @ Moyers)

Top 5 Ways to Get a more Equal America (Reich @ Moyers)

Bill Moyers interviews former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich on the ways Americans could effect a more equal society: Reich wants to cap the size […]

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Iran
Iran’s President Rouhani and the New Hopes for Diplomacy (Sternfeld)

Iran’s President Rouhani and the New Hopes for Diplomacy (Sternfeld)

Something about hope Since coming to office in August, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has done everything to spell out the profound difference between his administration […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
Can we have a Military-Green Energy Complex Instead, Please?  (Kramer & Pemberton)

Can we have a Military-Green Energy Complex Instead, Please? (Kramer & Pemberton)

Mattea Kramer and Miriam Pemberton write at Tomdispatch.com A trillion dollars.  It’s a lot of money.  In a year it could send 127 million college […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Iran’s Rouhani:  Not Seeking the Bomb, Willing to show Flexibility

Iran’s Rouhani: Not Seeking the Bomb, Willing to show Flexibility

Ann Curry of NBC News gets a scoop, with an interview with Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani, in which he restates Iran’s position that it is […]

Juan Cole

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