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Photo of the Day: Sad Girl, Happy Girl, Iran 1900 (Sykes)

British Museum | Sir Percy Sykes | - - Two rural Iranian girls of the Qajar era, 1900, one sad, one mischievous. Via British Museum Museum number: Sykes.453 Description: Lantern slide, showing…

Sen. Elizabeth Warren silenced on Floor for Reading King Letter re: Sessions

CNN International | (Video News Report with text Appendix) In an extremely rare rebuke, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren was cut off while speaking on the Senate floor. She had been reading a…

Feature, not Bug: Trump’s Chaos Theory of Government

Jacek Rostowski | (Project Syndicate) | - - WARSAW – In the weeks since Donald Trump’s inauguration as President of the United States, it has become clear that he intends to roll…

Speaker of British House of Commons: Trump not Welcome Here

TeleSur | - - "An address by a foreign leader to both houses of parliament is not an automatic right; it is an earned honor," Bercow concluded. The speaker of the United…

All the terrible things Trump plans to do to Women (besides that one)

By Juan Cole | - - About 1 million women and their supporters demonstrated in Washington, D. C. on Saturday, but many millions more rallied in cities like New York, Chicago, Los…

6 Reasons Feminist Carrie Fisher Was Ahead of Her Time

TeleSur | - - While all Star Wars (male) fans only remember Carrie Fisher in her sex-slave golden bikini, the late actress had a feminist conception of her role way ahead of…

Can Israeli institutions include both more Women and more Gender-Segregating Orthodox?

Shulamit Almog | (The Conversation) | - - In one sense, women are making great strides in the Israeli Defence Force (IDF). In October, the army declared it was examining the possibility…

In Iran, Women’s militia Leader Demands Persecution Of Gender-Rights Activism

By Golnaz Esfandiari | ( RFE/RL) | - - Minou Aslani, head of the Women's Basij organization in Iran, has condemned efforts to increase the number of women in parliament and opposed…

Trump’s Steve Bannon: Abusive, White Nationalist Media Baron

TeleSur | - - "You have an individual ... who's basically creating the ideological aspects of where we're going," said former imperial wizard, David Duke of the Ku Klux Klan. "And ideology…

As Der Donald-inspired Hate Crimes grow, US Universities at Risk

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - A tsunami of reports about hate crimes directed at minorities are coming in from all over the country in the wake of Der…

Afghan Women Take Up Arms Against The Taliban

By RFE/RL's Afghan Service The leader of a fledgling women's militia in northern Afghanistan says dozens of volunteers have joined the fight since a handful of women recently took up arms to…

How can Progressives get through the Next 4 Years? Organize!

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Anti-Trump demonstrations have broken out all over the country in the wake of his surprise victory on Tuesday. Latinos are afraid he will…

The Hatred that Trump’s Lies will Leave Behind

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Whether Trump wins or loses (and in my view there isn't much chance he can win), he will leave behind a toxic legacy…

Megyn Kelly-Newt Gingrich Blow-up on Fox: Are White Women deserting Trump?

Farron Cousins | (Ring of Fire Video Report) | - - "Newt Gingrich tried to tell Megyn Kelly of Fox News that she was obsessed with sex. Ironic coming from a man…

Girl Soldiers: Forgotten Casualties of War

By Pat Hynes | ( Truthdig ) | - - As secretary of State, Hillary Clinton was visibly shaken by sexual crimes against women and girls when she visited the Democratic Republic…

Michelle Obama: Trump a Cruel, Lifetime Sexual Predator – “It Hurts.”

Michelle Obama | New Hampshire Speech on Trump | - - Transcript via NPR: - - . . . And now, here I am, out on the campaign trail in an election…

GOP finally shocked as Trump admits to being serial Groper of white women on Hot Mic

By TeleSur | - - Trump was caught using vulgar terms to refer to women he tried to seduce. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump bragged about groping, aggressively kissing and making sexual…

The Challenge for the Arab World of tackling Gender-based Violence

By Lina Abirafeh | (The Conversation) | - - It should now be beyond dispute that gender-based violence is a critical human rights issue – possibly the most important human rights challenge…

Whose Fault is Trump? Top 7 Culprits

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Donald J. Trump's presidential campaign platform has from the beginning been based on racism, religious bigotry, class warfare of the rich on workers,…

Iran releases Canadian Academic it accused of ‘Feminism,’ but Crackdown on Women Activists Continues

By Mahsa Alimardani | ( Globalvoices.org) | - - Some good news reached Canada this week when Homa Hoodfar, an Iranian-Canadian anthropologist, was released after months of incarceration in Iran. Hoodfar is…