By Brenna Moore, Fordham University | – When news broke July 26, 2023, that the gifted Irish singer Sinead O’Connor had died, stories of her most famous performance circulated amid the grief and shock. Thirty-one years ago, after a haunting rendition of Bob Marley’s song “War,” O’Connor ripped up a photograph of Pope John Paul […]
Archives for July 2023
Navajo Nation Declares State of Emergency due to Extreme Heat
By: Shondiin Silversmith – (AZ Mirror ) With temperatures hitting well above 110 degrees in the southern parts of Arizona, the Navajo Nation in the northern parts of the state is also feeling the effects of the heat waves. Parts of the Navajo Nation have experienced above-average temperatures throughout the summer, with some parts reaching […]
City of Berlin adopts $5.2 bilion Climate Protection Fund to Reduce Fossil Fuel Dependency
By Jennifer Collins | – Clean Energy Wire / Tagesspiegel / RBB ( Clean Energy Wire ) – Berlin’s Senate has adopted a five-billion-euro climate protection fund to flow into mobility, energy efficiency in buildings, power supply and the economy. The goal of the fund, which could be doubled to 10 billion euros by 2026, […]
The Other Sinead O’Connor, Pro-Palestinian Critic of Violent Israeli Extremist Ben-Gvir, and Muslim Convert
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Tragically, Sinead O’Connor is dead at 56. Many of the obituaries of Irish protest singer have been oddly thin, and have ignored key moments in her life. One was her contretemps with Israeli extremist Itamar Ben-Gvir, now the country’s Minister of National Security. She later became fiercely critical of the […]
Israeli Squatter-Settlers Rampage in Palestinian-Americans’ West Bank Hometown
Eric Goldstein goldsteinricky ( Middle East Monitor ) – When Kayed Abu Awwad sold his home in Oak Lawn, Illinois, in June, he never imagined that he and his family would be homeless a few weeks later. Like many American-born Palestinians, Abu Awwad, a 38-year-old truck driver, planned to move his family to […]
Is Washington invested in Israeli Apartheid toward Palestinians?
By M. Muhannad Ayyash, Mount Royal University | – During his recent trip to the United States, Israeli President Isaac Herzog gave a speech before the United States Congress. Mainstream media coverage of his speech has focused on two points: the unbreakable “sacred” bond between Israel and the U.S., and the idea that calling Israel […]
That other War: Struggle and Suffering in Sudan
By Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox It’s been devastating, even if no one’s paying attention. Three months of fighting in Sudan between the army and a paramilitary group called the Rapid Support Force (RSF) has left at least 3,000 people dead and wounded at least 6,000 more. Over two million people have been displaced […]
Will the Triumph of the Messianic Israeli Far Right Destabilize the Country?
Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The Israeli government voted this week to limit their Supreme Court’s ability to overturn unconstitutional laws after several months of debate. This elicited storm of global criticism, including from the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which said it is “gravely concerned” that this will further fracture Israel and American […]
With Israel in Turmoil, its “Lost Boys” are Stoking Extreme Nationalism
By Anna Lippman, York University, Canada | – We saw it in the United States on Jan. 6, 2021. We witnessed it during Canada’s so-called Freedom Convoy. The evidence is clear —fascism is on the rise in North America. But ethno-nationalist fascism is growing even faster in the remote areas of occupied Palestine amid widespread […]
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