This essay was first published in January 2017. It seems even more prescient 8 and a half years later. At that time I could not […]
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How AIPAC supports Israel’s far Right Likud Party over Democratic America
( Detailed Political Quizzes ) – In a New York Times March 13, 2024, article (“Pro-Israel Lobby Faces Challenges Amid Gaza War and Shifting Politics”), […]
Patients, Advocates Push Biden to ‘Reclaim Medicare’ From Privatized Medicare Advantage
“If Medicare Advantage has it their way, they’re going to deny me care and delay me care until I’m dead,” said one patient. Jake Johnson […]
Could Trump win again? Roots of MAGA Paranoia and the Politics of Fear
Brooklyn, NY (Special to Informed Comment; featured) – The cover of my The Politics of Fear: The Peculiar Persistence of American Paranoia features a photograph […]
Western Powers could Stop the Gaza Genocide; instead they Cover it Up with “Humanitarian Aid”
By Caroline Lund and Brendan Ciarán Browne | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – The ongoing genocide in Gaza has starkly exposed Western governments’ […]
Daring Look a Sacred Cow in the Teeth: Military Spending and National (in)Security
( Tomdispatch.com ) – In an age when American presidents routinely boast of having the world’s finest military, where nearly trillion-dollar war budgets are now […]
First US Offshore Wind Farm goes Live off Long Island in Omen of a Green Future, Cheaper Electricity
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – This past week, the United States joined the rest of the advanced industrial countries in the world in having at […]
If trees could talk: Tree rings show recent decades warmest in 500 years
By Alex Hager/KUNC ( Cronkite News ) The current Western megadrought is unlike any other dry period the region has experienced over the past 500 […]
Sudan: Urgent Action Needed on Hunger Crisis
Security Council Should Act on Access for Aid Deliveries ( Human Rights Watch ) – (New York, March 15, 2024) – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio […]
Schumer, breaking with Netanyahu, Signals that even Corporate Dems’ Support for Israel is no Longer Unconditional
Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Whether driven by moral compass, or political survival; America’s Democratic leaders are finally recognizing the obvious: The […]
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