Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The first recorded world-historical pandemic took place in the Roman Empire and Sasanian Iran, as well as neighboring areas such […]
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“This Land:” The pro-Immigrant Radicalism of Lady Gaga and Guthrie at Half-Time
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – By beginning with Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America” and then switching to Woody Guthrie’s “This Land […]
Will Trump use the Next ISIL attack to sweep away our Liberties?
By Allison Beth Hodgkins | (Informed Comment) | – – You have to hand to the civil society groups pushing back on the Trump administration’s […]
Why Trump’s Immigration Order is a Tragedy for Everyone, Except Trump
By Barbara Elias | (Informed Comment) | – – For the moment, federal courts have interrupted the president’s immigration order. Judge Robart remarked in his […]
Trump’s Coming “Islamo-China” War . . . or, Whatever
By Ira Chernus | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – What kind of national security policy will the Trump administration pursue globally? On this issue, […]
SNL: Bannon puts Trump up to Disastrous Calls to World Leaders
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Yes, Trump, Some Americans also murder: Some are Your White Supremacists
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – In an interview with Bill O’Reilly airing Sunday afternoon, O’Reilly observes of Russian President Vladimir Putin: […]
Cooking the Planet: GOP Congress quietly allows Methane Emissions on Public Land
By Andrea Germanos, staff writer | Commondreams.org | – – Fossil fuel industry hits paydirt as congress approves measure that gives “away a taxpayer-owned resource […]
When Germany thinks someone is Killing Democracy . . .
TeleSur | – – The illustrator is a Cuban immigrant who put his views on Trump into a piece of art that is now on […]
Militia Feuding, Insecurity in East Mosul hold up Advance on ISIL
Mustafa Habib | ( Niqash.org ) | – – The biggest problem in eastern Mosul, post-extremists, is security. The Iraqi army needs to move on, […]
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