Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Political Scientist and liberal Zionist Michael Walzer gave an interview early in the Israeli campaign against Gaza in which he […]
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A Sucker is born Every Minute: Our Election From Hell
By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – Yep, it finally happened. In early May, after a long, long run, the elephants of […]
The Economic Crisis of Greying World: 30 Countries have more Elderly than Children
By Joseph Chamie | (Inter Press Service) | – – NEW YORK (IPS) – It first happened in Italy in 1995. Five years later it […]
Gaza Strip: Blockade Causing an End to Fresh Water Resources
By IMEMC News | – – International Solidarity Movement | Gaza Team | – – As every year, during the summer, the water shortage in […]
Google Sparks Outrage by Abolishing Palestine on Maps
TeleSur | – – Google’s decision to wipe Palestine from its map app and portray the occupied territories as Israel sparks online protest campaign. Journalists […]
Looming Aleppo Battle indicts both sides of Civil War for breaking Cease-Fire
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The only thing worse than the new hero status of now-covert al-Qaeda operative Abu Muhammad al-Julani […]
On 71st Anniversary of Hiroshima, the Fear of a Nuclear Trump
TeleSur | – – Donald Trump also recently asked a national security expert three times why, since the US has nuclear weapons, it can’t use […]
Will Syria Issue derail Turkey-Russia Rapprochement?
By Abbas Djavadi | ( RFE/RL ) | – – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan travels to St. Petersburg on August 9 to meet with […]
Iowa could go 100% Green with Wind in only 14 years, w/ Few Birds Killed, Mr. Trump
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Iowa gets 31% of its electricity from wind turbines, the highest percentage in the nation (though […]
Democrats Are Still Divided on Israel, But Clinton Runs Way to the Right
By Naomi Dann | Foreign Policy in Focus | (Originally published in Lobelog) Some see Democratic VP pick Tim Kaine as a promising counterbalance to […]