Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reports that 19 of every 100 Palestinian children in Gaza are malnourished. That is […]
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New Normal: A victim is displaced by Climate Change Disaster every Second
Climate Victims – Every Second, One Person Is Displaced by Disaster By Baher Kamal | (Inter Press Service) | – – ROME, Jul 27 2016 […]
B’Tselem: Israel demolished more Palestinian homes in past 6 months than in all of 2015
By Ma’an News Agency | – – A Palestinian family stands amid the remains of their home after it was demolished by Israeli forces in […]
Can Turkey’s Economy come back from Coup and Massive Purge?
By Nader Habibi | (The Conversation) | – – The failed July 15 coup in Turkey has prompted a tsunami of responses by the government […]
Top 7 firsts in Women in US Politics
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – As I pointed out, it is all very nice that Hillary Clinton is the first American […]
Arab World’s biggest Problem not Terrorism or Fundamentalism but Water!
By Brahma Chellaney | (Project Syndicate) | – – BERLIN – Nowhere is freshwater scarcer than in the Arab world. The region is home to […]
US does 1/2 of all World’s Arms Sales, then Surprised by Global Violence
By William D. Hartung | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – When American firms dominate a global market worth more than $70 billion a year, you’d expect […]
Why Turkey wants to silence its academics
By Fatma Müge Göçek | (The Conversation) | – – After the July 15 coup attempt in Turkey, one of the first actions of the […]
The most Left Wing Supreme Court in a Generation? Sec. Clinton’s most important Progressive Prospect
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Progressives who had backed Bernie Sanders are understandably upset about the prospect of a Clinton presidency. […]
Sarah Silverman to Bernie or Bust folks at DNC 2016: You are being ridiculous
NJ.com | (News Video Clip) | – – “Comedian and Bernie Sanders supporter Sarah Silverman took the stage along side of Al Franken to tell […]