Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – In Franz Kafka’s story “The Metamorphosis,” Gregor Samsa awakens to “find himself transformed into a monstrous vermin” — a […]
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The Cost of Trump’s War on Federal Workers: an Eyewitness Account
( Tomdispatch.com ) – The second administration of President Donald J. Trump has already started working its special magic across the Washington, D.C. capital region. […]
Big Banks accept a Catastrophic 5.4º F. Temperature Rise, Hope to sell People more Air Conditioners
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Corbin Hiar reports at the Scientific American that the big banks are now banking on a 5.4º F. (3º Celsius) […]
Int’l Red Cross Outraged by Israel’s killing of Medics, First Responders in Gaza
( Middle East Monitor ) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Sunday expressed outrage after eight paramedics from the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS), five […]
Protesting Harvard’s Dismissal of Directors of its Mideast Center over Israel-Palestine as Attack on Academic Freedom
Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Committee on Academic Freedom Alan Garber President, Harvard University . . . Dear President […]
Iran Rejects direct talks with Trump despite threat that “There will be Bombing.”
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian met with his cabinet on Sunday, according to the president’s website, and announced that Trump’s offer […]
China Displaces the U.S. as Global Leader in Research, with 9 of top 10 Institutions
Nine of the world’s top 10 research institutions are now Chinese. By Imran Khalid ( Foreign Policy in Focus) – In the last decade, a […]
Can Fortress Europe survive Trump, Putin and the new Political Dark Age?
( Tomdispatch.com ) – The news of Rodrigo Duterte’s arrest surprised me. It’s not that I doubted the former leader of the Philippines was guilty […]
Your Gasoline Car is an Engine of Trump’s Fascism: Resistance requires going Green
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Mussolini defined fascism as the “merger of state and corporate power.” But not all corporations are equally complicit. Obviously, our […]
With Proxies Weakened, Iran bets on Missiles for Defense
By Kian Sharifi ( RFE/ RL) – Iran says it has numerous underground missile bases across Iran, and sporadically unveils some with a lot of […]
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