Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The tragedy of the burning of the 800-year-old Notre Dame is a loss for global culture. Regular readers know that I grew up partially in France, and I love Paris with a passion. I remember visiting Notre Dame with my parents as a child. Perhaps there is a faded Kodak […]
How Classic Anti-Semitic Tropes are being Marshaled against Ilhan Omar and Muslim-Americans
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The attacks on Ilhan Omar, one of the first two Muslim-American women to serve in Congress and the first of Black African heritage who veils, by the Rupert Murdoch press (Fox, New York Post, etc.) and the US Republican Party are frightening for many reasons, but most of all because […]
Why isn’t the Democratic Party Leadership coming to Ilhan Omar’s Defense?
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Nancy Pelosi’s response to Donald Trump’s tweet lying about Ilhan Omar and maliciously twisting her words to make her seem virtually an al-Qaeda sympathizer was so anodyne that Pelosi didn’t even mention Omar’s name. The leadership of the Democratic Party is not coming to the defense of Rep. Omar because […]
Republicans & Rupert Murdoch Created al-Qaeda when Ilhan Omar’s Somalia upheld Scientific Socialism
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The dishonest smearing of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) by the Rupert Murdoch press,including the New York Post and Fox Cable News, on which the despicable Trump piled on, contains more ironies than her defenders for the most part realize. Omar spoke at the Council for American Islamic Relations (CAIR) in […]
Netanyahu’s Reelection Further Dooms Millions of Palestinians to Decades of Statelessness, Denial of Basic Rights
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The breathless headlines that the reelection in Israel of far right prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu of the fascist Likud Party has doomed the two state solution are wrong. The two state solution was doomed by the late 1990s, as Israel doubled its squatters in the Palestinian West Bank after the […]
Peak Crisis in Sudan as Army elements side with Youth, Women against Dictator Bashir
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Omar Hassan al-Bashir, b. 1944, has been deposed as president of Sudan in the wake of a military coup, according to Alarabiya (United Arab Emirates). Alarabiya also says that current and former government officials have been detained by the coup-makers. As I write, the state television has gone blank and […]
Zionist OA’s Mort Klein uses House Panel on White Nationalism to spread anti-Muslim Blood Libel
Zionist Organization of America head Morton Klein testified Tuesday before a congressional inquiry into white nationalism and promptly excused white nationalism. Klein denied that the Tree of Life synagogue shooter or the New Zealand mosque shooter were animated by right wing ideas. Rafi Schwartz at Splinter observed, “Klein conveniently neglected to mention that the Tree […]
In Norway Electric Vehicles outsold Gasoline Cars for first Time in History and other EV Success Stories
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Electric cars are coming on like gangbusters, as ranges increase and prices fall dramatically. Here are 6 headlines pointing to the green car future: 1. In Norway, electric vehicles in March, 2019, outsold gasoline-driven cars for the first time. 2. Indeed, electric vehicles in Norway were responsible for 58% of […]
Would-be Assassin brands Rep. Ilhan Omar as “Muslim Brotherhood,” aping Milstein of Canary Mission
A man from Addison, New York, was arrested after he made a menacing phone call to Rep. Ilhan Omar’s office, speaking with staff. The FBi says that the man told the staffer, “Do you work for the Muslim Brotherhood? Why are you working for her, she’s a fucking terrorist. I’ll put a bullet in her […]
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