Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In an interview with Israel’s Channel 14, Minister of Energy Eli Cohen said that “Gaza must remain in ruins for decades to come” and that Israel will not help rebuild its civilian infrastructure. The Israeli army has damaged or destroyed some 90% of the Gaza Strip’s housing stock, as well […]
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Archives for 2025
Albanese’s ‘From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide’ Report
( Middle East Monitor ) – Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in occupied Palestine, stands as a testament to the notion of speaking truth to power. This “power” is not solely embodied by Israel or even the United States, but by an international community whose collective relevance […]
Trump Brings back Torture, Big Time
( Tomdispatch.com ) – I didn’t want to write this article. In fact, I had something relatively uplifting planned: an Independence Day piece about the rich implications for the present moment to be found in the Declaration of Independence. But other excellent writers beat me to that one. So instead, I reluctantly find myself once […]
Egypt brings Africa’s Largest Wind Farm Online on Red Sea Coast, Powers 1.1 mn. Households
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The only place I’ve ever heard of along the Egyptian mainland’s Red Sea coast is the resort city of Hurghada . I never got there, being a workaholic. I was mainly a Cairo guy during my nearly 4 years off and on in that country. So I didn’t know anything […]
Israel confines most Palestinians in Gaza to just 21 sq mi., Kills 112 in One Day
( IMEMC ) – On Saturday, Day 645 of the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and Day 114 since Israel violated the mediated ceasefire agreement on March 18, Israeli missiles and shells have killed at least 112 Palestinians, including 34 while awaiting humanitarian aid, and injured dozens, including children and women, across the devastated coastal enclave. Israel has […]
What do the Bible, the Quran and the Torah say about the Justification for War?
By Robyn J. Whitaker; Mehmet Ozalp, Charles Sturt University, and Suzanne Rutland, University of Sydney (The Conversation) – Wars are often waged in the name of religion. So what do key texts from Christianity, Islam and Judaism say about the justification for war? We asked three experts for their views. The Bible Robyn J. Whitaker, […]
Solar Power outstripped all others in Europe last Month for First Time
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – As the Trump Department of Energy and the Republican tax bill try to kneecap solar energy in the United States, Europe and China are making impressive strides in this sector, with economic and environmental benefits of which the US seems bent on depriving itself. The Ember energy consultancy just announced […]
‘Come meet us in Dubai’: the new Offshoring of grand Corruption
By John Heathershaw, University of Exeter and Ricardo Soares de Oliveira, Sciences Po (The Conversation) – During an interview one of us (Ricardo Soares de Oliveira) carried out in 2017, an African high net-worth individual said he was told by an executive whose business had long served him out of London: “Come meet us in […]
Stop Israel’s Dystopian Concentration Camp in Gaza before it is Too Late
( Code Pink ) – The Israeli government has just put forward one of the most brazenly genocidal schemes in modern memory—and unless we act immediately, the world will once again let it happen. As reported in Haaretz, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz is proposing to force some 600,000 Palestinians—and eventually the entire population of Gaza—into a fenced-in “humanitarian […]
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