Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The US has fallen off a cliff on global health statistics, plummeting an unprecedented 21 places in the world index. Moreover, the US is expected to fall even further behind over the next 20 years. Mellan Solly at The Smithsonian Magazine analyzed the numbers in a just-published Lancet article While […]
Top Five Ways Trump Enabled MBS Murder of Journalist Khashoggi
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump said Friday that he finds “credible” the bald-faced and ridiculous lies the Saudi government came up with to explain the death of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi. He thereby signaled his intention of sweeping the affair under the table for the sake of Saudi arms sales. His position is no […]
Buy an Electric Car and Foil Kushner’s Plan to let Khashoggi’s Murder Blow Over
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – It seems fairly obvious that the Trump administration does not intend to let a little thing like the murder and dismembering of a Washington Post columnist with two American children stand in the way of US relations with Saudi Arabia. Jared Kushner is said to believe the whole affair will […]
Did Trump Have an Obligation to Warn Khashoggi? Juan Cole @ Thom Hartmann
Thom Hartmann Show | (Video Interview) | – – How much responsibility does Donald Trump have, after not warning Khashoggi, and what does this say to the state of journalism, free speech, the Trump administration, America and the World. Professor Juan Cole joins the Thom Hartmann Program to discuss this and his new book, Muhammad: […]
Islam: The Essence of the Qur’an is Compassionate Love: Qur’an 90
An early chapter of the Qur’an is 90, “The City.” It contrasts the wealthy elite of Mecca in western Arabia in the 610s of the Common Era with the small band of Muhammad’s Believers. Verses 12-17 go this way: And how would I make you understand the steep path? It is freeing a slave or […]
Yes, Sen. Lindsey Graham, You have Iranian Ancestry and should be Proud
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Sen. Lindsay Graham joked on Fox Cable News that he might do a genetic test to see if he has Native American ancestry, as Sen. Elizabeth Warren does. Then he added that it might show he has Iranian ancestry. “That,” he observed, “would be terrible.” Florida house candidate, Iranian-American Anna […]
Why a US Divorce from Saudi Arabia would be Good for Us and Them
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Voices from the Right wing, prominently featured in Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal, are warning that the grisly murder of Jamal Khashoggi by a hit squad made up of persons close to crown prince Mohammed Bin Salman should not mean the end of the close US relationship with Saudi Arabia. […]
Saudi war on Yemen: World’s Worst Famine in a Century could Claim 13 Million
Yemen is a country of some 29 million persons, but over a third of them are at risk of starvation if Saudi and UAE bombing campaigns continue. Lise Grand, the United Nations coordinator for Yemen, has warned that the world has only 3 months to halt the slide toward catastrophe. She seems to think that […]
Tokyo’s Net Carbon Zero Olympics, as Japan surges toward 65 GW Solar
I love Japan, but I have to say its government has dragged its feet on renewable energy. But there are signs of a big turnaround on the issue in the world’s third largest economy, which would be huge. Despite worries about the impact of planned phasing out of solar subsidies, there are lots of good […]
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