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Archives for March 2021

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US Church Membership falls under 50%; Are Republicans, anti-Gay Evangelicals driving Youth away?

US Church Membership falls under 50%; Are Republicans, anti-Gay Evangelicals driving Youth away?

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Since about 2000, Americans have begun abandoning religion in droves, especially but not only the younger generations (Millennials and younger). Now a Gallup poll finds that for the first time in seven decades, only 47% of Americans say they belong to a church, synagogue or mosque. That figure was 70% […]

Haredim
Israeli election: Fundamentalist Mansour Abbas emerges as possible first Muslim kingmaker in nation’s history

Israeli election: Fundamentalist Mansour Abbas emerges as possible first Muslim kingmaker in nation’s history

The Conversation

By John Strawson | – For Israel, this has been the “no change, all change” election. No change in that the result appears inconclusive – just like the three previous elections. It’s also all change, as we are seeing the beginnings of the political normalisation between Jews and Arabs for the first time since the […]

Israel/ Palestine
Jewish Nat’l Fund Lawsuit against Palestinian Rights Advocacy in US Slapped down by Federal Judge on First Amendment Grounds

Jewish Nat’l Fund Lawsuit against Palestinian Rights Advocacy in US Slapped down by Federal Judge on First Amendment Grounds

contributors

U.S. Federal Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Filed by Jewish National Fund Against Palestinian Rights Nonprofit Contact: press@ccrjustice.org Lawsuit “Not Persuasive,” Judge Rules ( Center for Constitutional Rights) – March 30, 2021, Washington, D.C. – A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Jewish National Fund (JNF) and others against a U.S.-based Palestinian rights organization. The […]

Immigration
Is the Biden Administration outsourcing the Border?

Is the Biden Administration outsourcing the Border?

Aviva Chomsky

By Aviva Chomsky | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Joe Biden entered the White House with some inspiring yet contradictory positions on immigration and Central America. He promised to reverse Donald Trump’s draconian anti-immigrant policies while, through his “Plan to Build Security and Prosperity in Partnership with the People of Central America,” restoring “U.S. leadership […]

Climate Crisis
As Biden seeks 30 gigawatts in Offshore Wind, Report shows this source could Generate all US Electricity

As Biden seeks 30 gigawatts in Offshore Wind, Report shows this source could Generate all US Electricity

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – President Biden has announced an enormous offshore wind corridor. So report Juliet Eilperin and Brady Dennis at WaPo. I wrote earlier this month about the 84-turbine Vineyard Wind project off Massachusetts, which has just been permitted, which will generate 800 megawatts. Biden wants to generate nearly 40 times as much […]

Asia
Yes, Anti-China invective in Foreign Policy puts a Target on Asian-Americans’ Backs

Yes, Anti-China invective in Foreign Policy puts a Target on Asian-Americans’ Backs

Martin Powers

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Chrissy Teigen is right. Anti-China invectives “put a target on Asian people’s backs,” yet the rhetoric gets more hysterical by the day, spanning the full spectrum from QAnon to the Democratic Party, and from city streets to the halls of state. What’s going on? The earliest Asia-bashing in the West […]

Egypt
How the Imperial past set the Stage for Nile Dam Conflicts between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia

How the Imperial past set the Stage for Nile Dam Conflicts between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia

The Conversation

By Mahemud Tekuya | – Ever since construction began a decade ago, there’s been serious contention between Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), a huge project straddling the Blue Nile in Ethiopia. For Ethiopia, the project is meant to offer a solution to its severe power problem, providing electricity access […]

Health Care
Biden’s Bandaid, or Top 8 Reasons why we need Medicare for All

Biden’s Bandaid, or Top 8 Reasons why we need Medicare for All

F. Douglas Stephenson

Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment) — Distinguished economist Michael Hudson writes that by “conquering the brains of a country by shaping how people think, you can twist their view into ‘unreality economics’ and make them think you are there to help them and not to take money out of them, then you’ve got them […]

Featured
Separation of Religion and State declared by Revolutionary Sudan’s once-Muslim fundamentalist Officers in Peace Deal with southern Guerrillas

Separation of Religion and State declared by Revolutionary Sudan’s once-Muslim fundamentalist Officers in Peace Deal with southern Guerrillas

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Sudan Tribune reports that Sudan cemented the separation of religion and state on Sunday. Military leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan signed a declaration of principles with one of two remaining rebel groups who had not yet put down their arms and accepted the new transitional government. The group is the […]

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