Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A new CNN/SSRS poll of about 1,000 people shows that among a random sample of registered voters, Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden each crush Trump by 6 to 7 points, even at this very early point in the campaign. Kamala Harris also wins, but by a smaller margin. This poll […]
Archives for May 2019
The GOP is Demonizing the Left in New Red Scare, but US Public wants . . . Socialism
The policies they’re attacking are enormously popular with America’s workaday majority
How the Mideast Officer Corps and Trump derailed the Arab Spring– and Hope
( Tomdispatch.com ) – “Al-Shebab,” said my student Jerry early in the fall 2010 semester. “We’re calling our small group al-Shebab. It means ‘The Youth.’” From his name alone, I wouldn’t have guessed his background, but he was proud of his family’s Egyptian roots and had convinced his classmates to give their group an Arabic […]
Did Saudi Arabia offer Palestine Pres. Mahmoud Abbas Billions to bow to Kushner ‘Deal of Century’?
Abbas said it would “mean the end of my political life,” according to sources
Super-Majority of Arab Youth in New Poll say Religion too Important in Public Life
Fully 79%, almost 4 in 5, say that the Arab world desperately needs to reform its religious institutions
The Yemen War is one of the Most Destructive since the Cold War: UN
If the war were to end in 2019, the UNDP projects it would account for 140,000 deaths of children under the age of 5
Why the Assange indictment is a Threat to the US First Amendment
The American government has traditionally abstained from charging publishers of classified information for the crime of publication
Slo-Mo Ethnic Cleansing: Israel has forced 3,000 Palestinians from their Jerusalem Homes in 15 Years
The authorities are deliberately denying Palestinians construction permits
Mueller thinks Trump Committed Obstruction: Why he Wrote to Barr and why Barr Lied
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment): Devlin Barrett and Matt Zapotosky at WaPo broke the story that Special Counsel Bob Mueller wrote a sharp letter to Attorney General William Barr to protest the 4-page summary Barr put out before releasing the Mueller report to the public. The letter was private but someone just leaked it to WaPo. […]
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