Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – With some 100 congressional victories, women staged a pink wave in the face of Trump’s tone of misogyny and feckless patriarchy. But what is interesting is that the pink wave isn’t exclusively white, exemplifying difference feminism more than the old Second Wave. For the first time in history, two Native […]
Your Health, Social Security, and Safety Depend on Voting Democratic Today
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Today’s midterm elections are among the more fateful in recent American history, quite simply because there is a madman in the White House whom the Republican Senate and House have absolutely refused to rein in. When Barack Obama wanted to close the US gulag at Guantanamo Bay, where inmates are […]
As World warns of WW I-Style Nationalisms, Top 5 Nations Trump Demonizes
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – French President Emmanuel Macron warned, as Europe prepares to commemorate the end of World War I a century ago on November 11, that the world is entering a new age of destructive nationalism. Virulent nationalism roiled Europe and killed over 80 million people in the two world wars. That is […]
Hate can only be Cured by Love: Reflections on the Tree of Life and other Atrocities
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Once in Iraq War days I was interviewed on PBS and I said, “I am alarmed.” A viewer wrote me and said, “It would have helped if you had *looked* like you were alarmed.” Sometimes I’m too Zen for the hot medium of television. But I really am alarmed about […]
Top 5 Reasons Trump’s Menacing Iran with Game of Thrones Tweet is Horrible
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – With his seemingly infinite capacity for tone deafness, Trump tweeted on Friday an HBO-style movie poster of himself with the phrase “Sanctions are coming,” referring to the Game of Thrones tagline that “winter is coming,” and thereby menacing Iran. HBO issued a formal complaint against use of its material for […]
Trump Paradox: He promotes CO2 even as Climate Emergency impels Emigration from Guatemala
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump’s fearmongering about Central American asylum-seekers (they aren’t intending to become undocumented immigrants) is unethical on many levels. But perhaps worst of all, Trump is promoting burning of coal and other fossil fuels that cause global heating and climate change, but can’t connect that dirty energy policy to the crises […]
The Qur’an insists that Synagogues and Churches be Preserved and Respected
The Qur’an, the Muslim scripture recited by the Prophet Muhammad 610-632 AD, preaches ecumenical harmony. The Cow 2:113 castigated Jews and Christians for each denying the truth of the other’s religion, even though they both believe in the Bible: “The Jews say, ‘The Christians have nothing to stand on’; and the Christians say, ‘The Jews […]
‘This has Got to End’: Trump Admin. Gives Saudis 30 Days to Start Yemen Talks
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Secretary of Defense James Mattis and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have abruptly called for an end to the Saudi-backed quagmire in Yemen, after years of backing the war over alleged Iranian involvement. Speaking at the Congressionally mandated US Institute for Peace on Tuesday, Mattis said according to the BBC […]
Top 5 Mistakes GOP’s Wohl Made in allegedly framing Mueller for Sex Charges
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) | – 1. Republican activist Jacob Wohl allegedly set up a phony company called “Surefire Intelligence,” charged with paying supposed women victims of Special Counsel Robert Mueller to allege sexual abuse. Wohl used his own email address to set up the site, and give his mother’s telephone number as the contact. […]
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