Informed Comment - Part 136

Our Nearly $1 Trillion Military Budget Won’t Make us Safer

By Lindsay Koshgarian ( Otherwords.org ) – If you looked at the U.S. military budget without knowing otherwise, you’d probably guess we were in World […]

OtherWords

Climate Crisis

“Some Say the World will End in Fire:” Nukes and Carbon, Carbon and Nukes

( Tomdispatch.com ) – I’ve been writing about climate change for so many years now but, in truth, it was always something I read about […]

Tom Engelhardt

Addiction

The Sacklers may not Get away with Opioid Grift after all, as SCOTUS strikes Down Bankruptcy Settlement

Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Allen Frances, M.D., distinguished former chair of psychiatry at Duke University school of medicine wrote in a […]

F. Douglas Stephenson

Israel/ Palestine

How Israel uses Starvation to Subdue the Palestinians

( Middle East Monitor ) – Humanitarian aid should never be politicised though, quite often, the very survival of nations is used as political bargaining […]

Ramzy Baroud

Inequality

SCOTUS to Homeless: Stay Awake or be Arrested

By Clare Pastore, University of Southern California | – (The Conversation) – The Supreme Court has ruled that the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution […]

The Conversation

Democratic Party

AIPAC’s Destructive Reach in American Politics: How it made an Example of Rep. Jamal Bowman

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Rep. Jamal Bowman’s loss to George Latimer for the 16th District of New York in the Democratic […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Displaced and Refugees

Gazans’ extreme Hunger could leave its Mark on subsequent Generations

Hasan Khatib, University of Wisconsin-Madison | – As Israel’s offensive in Gaza rages on, people across the entire Gaza Strip find themselves in increasingly dire […]

The Conversation

Anti-Zionism