Informed Comment - Part 1095

It’s Official: Burning Coal, Auto Exhaust & Air Pollution Making us Stupid

(TeleSur) – Sam Myers said how we live has decreased the nutritional value of our staple food source, “putting our health at risk.” Increasing levels […]

TeleSur

Iran

Iran Parliament rakes Pres. Rouhani over Coals on Economy as Centrists Weaken

Tehran (AFP) – Iran’s parliament declared its dissatisfaction with President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday, voting to reject his answers after grilling him over the deteriorating […]

Eric Randolph

Yemen

Yemen: Saudis, UAE, US and Houthis All Guilty of War Crimes – UN

By Nina LARSON | – Geneva (AFP) – All sides in Yemen’s bloody conflict may have committed war crimes, UN investigators said Tuesday, highlighting deadly […]

AFP

Featured

Muhammad and Islamic Peace Studies: Interview with Juan Cole

Author Juan Cole Detroit (World Religion News ) – Joseph Richard Preville, American Writer and Book Critic, interviews Juan Cole. Joseph Richard Preville: What problems […]

Juan Cole

Featured

Saudi Crown Prince vows Yemeni Children will “Shiver,” but is He on Way Out?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Mohamed Bin Salman, the thirty-two-year-old crown prince of Saudi Arabia, is finding his wings clipped, by his father and by […]

Juan Cole

Iran

Iran Launches Suit at UN Court against Trump Sanctions

By Jan Hennop and Roland Lloyd Parry | – The Hague (AFP) – Iran demanded Monday that the UN’s top court order the United States […]

AFP

Republican Party

From this AFP Report, it Seems Vietnam gave Warmer Tributes to McCain than Trump White House

Informed Comment syndicates select AFP pieces, and as I prepared this one for publication, the difference between the reported Vietnam response to his death and […]

AFP

Iraq