San Francisco (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – This week will go down in history as a time when the governing body of the Democratic […]
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Will Fleeing Puerto Ricans ever return home from the Mainland?
By Alexis R. Santos-Lozada | (The Conversation) | – – Even before this year’s devastating hurricane season, the team of demographers I work with at […]
Yemen: Twitter Bots and Fake Accounts ‘Blocking News’
TeleSur | – – British-Irish independent journalist Iona Craig, who focuses on Yemen and the Arabian peninsula, blocked about 9,000 bots on Twitter in the space […]
The New Arab League Cold War
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Arab League is embroiled in a new cold war among its own members, largely over […]
Sexual Predator Trump backs Sexual Predator Roy Moore (TYT Video)
The Young Turks | (Video News Clip) | – – “Does Trump support Roy Moore? Cenk Uygur, the host of The Young Turks, breaks down […]
Israeli Minister Confirms Secret Contacts with Saudi Arabia
By IMEMC News | – – Israel’s Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz revealed that the country maintains secret contacts within Saudi Arabia and many other Muslim […]
W. Bush Still a War Criminal: Can’t Get Fooled Again
San Francisco (Tomdispatch.com) – He received a prestigious award from the West Point Association of Graduates. He published a “runaway” bestselling autobiography. Last February, a […]
World’s Cheapest Solar Power in Mexico a Coal-Killer
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – China will have installed 54 gigawatts of new solar energy by the end of 2017, instead […]
Nuclear Apocalypse by Accident? Age of Trump
By John Buell | (Informed Comment) | – – Ironically, President Trump’s frequent nuclear blustering serves to hide one aspect of the nuclear risk. Focus […]
R.I.P. The Internet, 1983-2017: End of Online Liberty
By Corynne McSherry and Elliot Harmon | ( Electronic Frontier Foundation) | – – As the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) gets ready to abandon a […]