By Marc-André Argentino | – Followers of the QAnon movement believe in wild and dangerous conspiracy theories about U.S. President Donald Trump. Now a faction within the movement has been interpreting the Bible through QAnon conspiracies. I have been studying the growth of the QAnon movement as part of my research into how extremist religious […]
Month
Category
- Africa (139)
- Animals (1)
- Asia (787)
- Australia (4)
- Authoritarianism (137)
- Cats (1)
- Culture (407)
- Dehydration (1)
- Democracy (201)
- Dissent (266)
- Economy (646)
- Education (68)
- Elderly (3)
- Energy (1,007)
- Environment (1,380)
- Europe (725)
- Featured (2,441)
- fiction (5)
- Food (7)
- Guns (9)
- Health (312)
- History (221)
- Human Rights (948)
- Immigration (17)
- International (548)
- Islamophobia (293)
- Juan Cole (266)
- Latin America (64)
- Latinos (3)
- leisure (21)
- media (358)
- Middle East (6,939)
- Arab World (4,495)
- Iran (841)
- Israel (675)
- Israel/ Palestine (1,822)
- Israel/Palestine (8)
- Kurds (259)
- Turkey (424)
- military (103)
- Modernism (1)
- nationalism (99)
- NATO (5)
- Natural Disasters (11)
- nuclear weapons (46)
- Patriarchy (2)
- Peace (68)
- Persian mythology (1)
- Popular Culture (22)
- Poverty (8)
- privacy (19)
- racism (284)
- Rape (5)
- religion (787)
- Rights (125)
- Romance (1)
- science (105)
- Secular (West) (7)
- Secularism (21)
- Sexual Assault (2)
- South Pacific (1)
- Spirituality (20)
- Statelessness (14)
- Surveillance (258)
- Terrorism (1,019)
- Tolerance (4)
- Uncategorized (8,034)
- United Nations (66)
- Urbanization (3)
- US Foreign Policy (507)
- US politics (3,446)
- Anti-War Movement (5)
- Campaign Finance (25)
- Censors (21)
- Central Intelligence Agency (57)
- Civil Rights (76)
- Congress (26)
- Constitution (284)
- crime (4)
- Democratic Party (483)
- Democratic Socialists of America (11)
- Domestic Terrorism (16)
- Drone Warfare (26)
- Espionage (114)
- Ethnicities (235)
- Far Right (159)
- FBI (36)
- Foreign Policy (201)
- Gay Rights (12)
- Guns (64)
- Immigration (182)
- Israel Lobbies (78)
- Marijuana (1)
- Militarization (210)
- National Security State (368)
- Native Americans (21)
- Nuclear arsenal (5)
- penitentiaries (6)
- Pentagon (308)
- Police (20)
- prison reform (4)
- Puerto Rico (25)
- Religious Right (1)
- Reproductive Choice (7)
- Republican Party (2,091)
- Supreme Court (43)
- Voter suppression (19)
- Whistleblowers (4)
- Xenophobia (7)
- Veterans (25)
- Voting Rights (4)
- War (258)
- Western Religion (360)
- White Supremacists (55)
- wikileaks (8)
- women (277)
- workers (134)
- Writing (5)
- Youth (117)
Politics
Male Face Masks have been the Height of Masculinity for Centuries: Why see Coronavirus Masks as Wimpy?
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A recent study of the way Americans are adapting to the coronavirus found that “Men more than women agree that wearing a face covering is shameful, not cool, a sign of weakness, and a stigma”. The study indicated that American men resist wearing face masks more than do women, partly […]
The Killing of Ahmaud Arbery highlights again the Fatal Danger of Jogging while Black
By Rashawn Ray | – Unsteady cellphone footage follows a jogger – an apparently young, black man – as he approaches and attempts to run around a white pickup truck parked in the middle of a suburban road. Moments later he lies dead on the ground. The killing of Ahmaud Arbery took place on Feb. […]
From WW II Victory to Trump’s ‘America First’: Is our anti-Nazi Resolve Foundering?
( Tomdispatch.com ) – The 75th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s surrender in May 1945 ought to prompt thoughtful reflection. For Americans, V-E Day, as it was then commonly called, marked the beginning of “our times.” The Covid-19 pandemic may signal that our times are now coming to an end. Tom Engelhardt, editor and proprietor of […]
Neo-Nazi “Reopeners” would Kill nearly as many Americans as died in All US Wars
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Roughly 1,264,000 US soldiers have died in all the wars this country has ever fought. A new simulation by the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School predicts that if all the states completely reopened today and all Americans ceased all social distancing measures, a million people would die in this country […]
How the Tiny ‘Reopen’ protest movement was Astroturfed and boosted by Fake Grassroots Tactics
By Marc Ambinder | – Many Americans have been under strict stay-at-home orders, or at least advisories, for more than a month. People are frustrated and depressed, but have complied with what they’ve been asked to endure because they trust that state and local public health officials are telling the truth about the coronavirus pandemic. […]
“Unhinged” Trump Calls on his Mussolini-Style Black Shirts to Attack Michigan, Minnesota, Virginia
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump’s tweets on Friday, “Liberate Michigan,” and “Liberate Minnesota,” and “Liberate Virginia” were clearly intended to incite his armed, conspiracy-minded, militant followers on the far right against those elected state governments, which intend to buck him on reopening the economy on May 1. The possibility of Trump-inspired violence against Governor […]
Trumpism was Always the Tyrannical Tantrum of a Stubborn 5-Year-Old, but Now it will Kill People; Lots of People
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trumpism is a form of fascism, of course, but at its core is a whiny rebellion against the achievements of human and civil rights since the 1960s. Do the new norms after the Civil Rights Movement stop people from saying in public that African-Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, Asians and women […]
Coronavirus and Medicare for All: Our Crisis comes from Gov’t Putting Profit over Public Health
Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment) – Big business dominates our government and public health takes a back seat to the need for private profit. Many government leaders from both political parties share the same ‘profits over public health’ ideology, even though the Covid-19 pandemic clearly shows how our economic system has failed to serve […]
© 2020 All Rights Reserved