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US spent $2.261 Trillion on Afghanistan War, in which ~240,000 Have Died; We could have Greened Half the Grid Instead
Afghanistan

US spent $2.261 Trillion on Afghanistan War, in which ~240,000 Have Died; We could have Greened Half the Grid Instead

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Costs of War Project at Brown University has just brought out a new report on Afghanistan. The September 11, […]

For Workers struggling to Unionize at Amazon, it is a Matter of Life and Death

For Workers struggling to Unionize at Amazon, it is a Matter of Life and Death

04/19/2021 By John Buell

The Real Trauma at the Border:  Hundreds of Trump’s Separated Children Still can’t Find their Families

The Real Trauma at the Border: Hundreds of Trump’s Separated Children Still can’t Find their Families

04/19/2021 By Michael Slager

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Human Rights
The Saudi Lobby is Coming for You, Small Town America

The Saudi Lobby is Coming for You, Small Town America

By Ben Freeman, Brian Steiner and Leila Riazi | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – Princess Reema bint Bandar Al-Saud, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the U.S., was […]

Juan Cole

Displaced and Refugees
Biden to reverse Trump’s White Supremacist, Sadistic near-ban on Refugees, but US still Lags, Sweden, Germany other OECD Countries

Biden to reverse Trump’s White Supremacist, Sadistic near-ban on Refugees, but US still Lags, Sweden, Germany other OECD Countries

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – About one quarter of one percent (0.25 percent) of the US population consists of refugees — some 838,000. This minuscule […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
The “Real” Apartheid: “There’s no Such Thing as a Palestinian Person”

The “Real” Apartheid: “There’s no Such Thing as a Palestinian Person”

( Middle East Monitor) – “This is the real apartheid,” Jewish American lawyer Brooke Goldstein tweeted last week. “The fact that Jews can’t enter into […]

Asa Winstanley

Displaced and Refugees
People escaping Violence have a Right to Seek Asylum: Stop Calling it a “Border Crisis”

People escaping Violence have a Right to Seek Asylum: Stop Calling it a “Border Crisis”

By Rachel Pak | – ( Otherwords.org ) – Over the last several weeks, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has reported a rise in the […]

OtherWords

Archaeology
The Catholic Reconquista in Spain outlawed Islam in 1502, but Secret Muslims kept their culture — and Cuisine — Going

The Catholic Reconquista in Spain outlawed Islam in 1502, but Secret Muslims kept their culture — and Cuisine — Going

By Aleks Pluskowski, Guillermo García-Contreras Ruiz, and Marcos García García | – Granada, in southern Spain’s Andalusia region, was the final remnant of Islamic Iberia […]

The Conversation

China
New Wind and Solar up 50% globally in 2020, as China beats US by over 4 to 1

New Wind and Solar up 50% globally in 2020, as China beats US by over 4 to 1

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The new report on 2020 by the International Renewable Energy Agency reveals that the world’s renewable energy generation capacity increased […]

Juan Cole

Guns
Are mass shootings an American epidemic?

Are mass shootings an American epidemic?

By Lacey Wallace | – The U.S. has suffered yet another mass shooting, with a deadly attack in a FedEx facility in Indianapolis. This was […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
How Persistent Student Organizing Forced the University of Michigan to Divest from Fossil Fuels

How Persistent Student Organizing Forced the University of Michigan to Divest from Fossil Fuels

By Jonathan Morris | – ( Waging Nonviolence ) – Last month, the University of Michigan became the latest to accept the obvious — that […]

Waging Nonviolence

Authoritarianism
Social Media and the Spread of Global Hate

Social Media and the Spread of Global Hate

( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – Social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter helped right-wing populists take power. Can they now help rein them […]

John Feffer

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Biden to reverse Trump’s White Supremacist, Sadistic near-ban on Refugees, but US still Lags, Sweden, Germany other OECD Countries

Juan Cole

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The “Real” Apartheid: “There’s no Such Thing as a Palestinian Person”

Asa Winstanley

Displaced and Refugees

People escaping Violence have a Right to Seek Asylum: Stop Calling it a “Border Crisis”

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The Catholic Reconquista in Spain outlawed Islam in 1502, but Secret Muslims kept their culture — and Cuisine — Going

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