Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The left wing Democratic Union Party of Kurds in Northeast Syria and its paramilitary, the People’s Protection Units (YPG), warmly welcomed President Trump’s about-face and decision to keep at least 200 US troops in Syria on Friday. A YPG militia commander said that this American step “will prevent the region […]
Israeli PM Netanyahu partners with Kahanist Terrorist Elements, seeking another Term
Israel has evolved as an ethno-nationalist supremacist state that practices Jim Crow forms of discrimination
How Kushner and other Key Trump Officials Plotted to Give Saudis the Atom Bomb in Return for Billions
For all we know, the plan to give the Saudis a nuke is still in play
Morocco Produced 35% of its Electricity from Renewables in 2018
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Morocco produced 35% of its electricity last year from wind, solar, and hydroelectric sources, putting it on track to its goal of getting 42% from green sources by 2020. It had a further goal of 52% renewables by 2030, but now hopes to go even faster. In contrast, the US […]
Sleepwalking into our Constitutional Crisis in the Age of Trump
As a historian of the Middle East, let me just point out that declaring a state of emergency is a means of creating a president for life
Top 5 Reasons Trump should not get the Nobel Peace Prize
Trump has likely just kicked off a nuclear arms race with Russia
Leader of Free World Angela Merkel Rips Bark off Trump for humiliating German Auto Industry
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a major speech on Saturday at the Munich Security Conference, German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed anxiety that the world’s ‘security architecture’ is unraveling. “What we see as an overall architecture underpinning our world as we know it is a bit of a puzzle now; if you like, it has […]
Trump’s Attempt to Strongarm Europe on Iran Crashes and Burns
The agreement “is a basic pillar of the architecture of nuclear non-proliferation at the global level”
Trump’s Wall an Ugly Scar Across Hot Zone of Biological Diversity, Threatening Endangered Species
Prevents migration of ringtail cats, bighorn sheep, kit foxes, and Mexican gray wolves
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