Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – As an unprecedented 40,000 Palestinians in Gaza marched for the right to return, marking the one-year anniversary of the beginning of weekly such marches, Israeli snipers shot into the Gaza Strip, killing 4 youth and wounding at least 207. The Israeli army uses military-grade tear gas on the crowds, and […]
75% of Scotland’s Electricity Now Green; & All Cars Electric by 2032
Scotland is also doing groundbreaking research and development on wave and tidal energy
Why Muslim Survivors of N. Zealand Massacre can Forgive: Islam is about Compassion
“Allah says if we forgive one another he loves us.”
How Trump Just Gave Alabama to Iraq by Giving Syrian Golan to Israel
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Trump administration’s illegal and unilateral recognition of Israeli annexation of the Syrian Golan Heights is an unfortunate return to the international jungle of the 1930s and 1940s, when Hitler annexed the Sudetenland and Mussolini annexed Nice from France. Trump’s policy is Nazi law, as so many of his policies […]
The Ilhan Omar Effect? 50% of Americans now favor a Palestinian State (Gallup)
The cruelty of Israeli occupation and Apartheid is also having an impact
Back to the Sweltering Pliocene: World’s Production of CO2 Spiked again in 2018
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The world– you and I included– actually greatly increased the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, by 2.87 parts per million, raising the total to just about 410 ppm. So reports the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. This was a significant increase, the fourth largest during the past 60 […]
We did Trump to Ourselves and Should Own up to It; Mueller and Putin can’t Save US
All this is not to say that Putin did not try to put Trump in. He did.
Building Bridges: Juan Cole Interview on Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires
Andrew C Condon interviewed me in this podcast on my new book abut peace themes in the Qur’an and the life of the Prophet Muhammad. Andrew is with the Bridge Initiative, aimed at combating Islamophobia, of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (ACMCU) at Georgetown University Building Bridges Interview with Juan Cole […]
No, Trump did not Defeat ISIL: He Executed Obama’s Plan
American, Lefist-Kurdish Flags raised Over ISIL’s last Sliver of Territory in E. Syria
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