Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – South Africa returned to the International Court of Justice in the Hague on Thursday over the Israeli invasion of Rafah, […]
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UN: 60,000 have been Killed in Syrian Revolution (Video)
The UN Human Rights Commission under Navi Pillai has had a team of researchers go through five different lists of casualties in Syria, and they […]
The World in 1013 AD: China Rising, Militant Islam in Kabul, & Sunni-Shiite Struggles in Mideast
Just for fun: What was our world like a thousand years ago? Of course, technologically very different, but Song China and Muslim Spain had made […]
Pakistani One Pound Fish Singer takes Charts by Storm
Muhammad Shahid Nazir had a hero’s welcome at Lahore airport last week. The fishmonger had gone to the UK last summer and worked in an […]
Good News for Planet: Wind Power tax Credits Renewed in ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Deal
While it is important that the Bush tax giveaway to the wealthy begin to be reversed if the US budget is ever to recover its […]
The Rise of the Sunnis and the Decline of Iran, Iraq and Hizbullah: The Middle East in 2013
2013 will see Iranian influence in the Middle East continue a decline that began with the Arab upheavals of 2011. Iran’s two major allies in […]
Dubai New Year’s Fireworks Display, 2013
Fireworks at the iconic Burj Khalifa in Dubai for 2013: Dubai is back. Its economy grew 3.2 percent in 2012, owing in part to good […]
Dear Neocons: Iraqis still don’t feel liberated: Iraq’s Sunni Arab Spring
Demonstrations and rallies began being held in the largely Sunni Arab province of al-Anbar and spread to Samarra (Salahuddin) and Nineva in Iraq on December […]
Dave Eggers’ Hologram for the King: Favorite Novel of 2012
Dave Eggers’ novel, Hologram for the King, was the best novel I read in 2012. The book centers on an American telecom company hoping to […]
Rape in India, and the Low Status of Women
The unnamed Indian woman who was gang-raped on a bus in New Delhi and had to be sent to Singapore for medical treatment has died […]