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Archives for February 2022

Pentagon
What a Waste, and You’re Paying for it: $778 Billion for the Pentagon and Still Counting

What a Waste, and You’re Paying for it: $778 Billion for the Pentagon and Still Counting

William D. Hartung

( Tomdispatch.com) – 2021 was another banner year for the military-industrial complex, as Congress signed off on a near-record $778 billion in spending for the Pentagon and related work on nuclear warheads at the Department of Energy. That was $25 billion more than the Pentagon had even asked for. It can’t be emphasized enough just […]

Epidemics
The Boosted are 97 times less likely to die of Covid, as Republican Party Death Cult Kills Tens of Thousands

The Boosted are 97 times less likely to die of Covid, as Republican Party Death Cult Kills Tens of Thousands

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The United States has failed Covid. Compared to most other industrialized countries, its per capita rate of infection and death is much higher. Despite having plenty of vaccines, there has been a lag in getting them into people’s arms, especially into the arms of the most at-risk group, of those […]

European Union
Despite the U.S. Hype about an "imminent" Russian invasion of Ukraine, Moscow is not Ready to Risk War

Despite the U.S. Hype about an “imminent” Russian invasion of Ukraine, Moscow is not Ready to Risk War

Nikola Mikovic

Belgrade (Special to Informed Comment) – Russia seems to be giving up on the “ultimatum” it issued to the United States in December. After Washington and its allies said no to Moscow’s security demands, the Kremlin started to soften its rhetoric regarding a potential NATO expansion eastward. Western media, however, keep spreading rumors of an […]

Israel/ Palestine
Israel's Claims to be a Democracy ring Hollow as Amnesty Finds it an Apartheid State

Israel’s Claims to be a Democracy ring Hollow as Amnesty Finds it an Apartheid State

Middle East Monitor

By Nasim Ahmed | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Amnesty International became the latest human rights group to label Israel an apartheid state. In a damning report titled “Israel’s Apartheid against Palestinians“ the rights group concludes that the occupation state has imposed a “cruel system of domination” and is committing “crimes against humanity.” […]

Climate Crisis
If We heat the World 1.5°C (2.7° F.), Essential Coral Reefs are all but Doomed

If We heat the World 1.5°C (2.7° F.), Essential Coral Reefs are all but Doomed

The Conversation

By Adele Dixon, Maria Beger, Peter Kalmus, and Scott F. Heron | – Coral reefs have long been regarded as one of the earliest and most significant ecological casualties of global warming. In new research published in the journal PLOS Climate, we found that the future of these tropical ecosystems – thought to harbour more […]

Featured
Apartheid 2.0:  Amnesty International Joins Chorus condemning Israeli rule over stateless Palestinians

Apartheid 2.0: Amnesty International Joins Chorus condemning Israeli rule over stateless Palestinians

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli state has won the trifecta of condemnation by major human rights organizations, as, on Tuesday, Amnesty International joined with Human Rights Watch and B’Tselem in calling Israeli rule over the 5 million Palestinians of the Occupied Palestinian Territories a form of Apartheid. Amnesty carried out its investigation and […]

Climate Crisis
How Green Buildings can boost Productivity, well-being and Health of Workers

How Green Buildings can boost Productivity, well-being and Health of Workers

The Conversation

By Md Sazan Rahman | – Most people now recognize the energy savings benefits of green buildings. These buildings use less water, energy and other natural resources. In some cases, they can increase biodiversity, produce their own energy and reduce the urban heat island effect. Recent research shows that green buildings can also improve the […]

Feminism
Women have had the Right to Choose in America for a Large Part of its History

Women have had the Right to Choose in America for a Large Part of its History

H. Patricia Hynes

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment) – Did you know? …Abortion has been legal for a large part of US history and was significant in the history of women’s reproductive health care: Not a single state banned abortion in our country’s first century. Women used abortion-inducing herbs and medications described in early pharmacological literature and […]

Donald Trump
America’s Two Pandemics:  And How They Mixed and Matched

America’s Two Pandemics: And How They Mixed and Matched

Tom Engelhardt

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Imagine that you were experiencing all of this (and by this, I mean our lives right now) as if it were a novel, à la Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year. The famed author of Robinson Crusoe — Defoe claimed it had been written by the fictional Crusoe himself […]

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