Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The left wing Democratic Union Party of Kurds in Northeast Syria and its paramilitary, the People’s Protection Units (YPG), warmly […]
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Europe Rejects Trump’s demand they Take Back Captured ISIL Extremists
The Kurds have warned the West that they lack the resources to ensure the foreign jihadists in their jails don’t escape
Morocco Produced 35% of its Electricity from Renewables in 2018
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Morocco produced 35% of its electricity last year from wind, solar, and hydroelectric sources, putting it on track to its […]
Defeating Fascism: What a Danish Woman Imam and Swiss Progressives can teach us
She used her networking skills to track down some of the extremist leaders of the anti-immigrant movement, then she went to see them.
Half a Million Dead, $5.9 Trillion Bill: The True Costs of US ‘Global War on Terror’
in the last two years, the U.S. has launched strikes in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen.
French Neo-Nazis Desecrate Jewish Cemetery with Swastikas in Alsace
Strasbourg (AFP) – Around 80 graves have been daubed with swastikas at a Jewish cemetery in eastern France, local officials said, hours ahead of nationwide […]
John Legend: “For too long it has been out of balance for progressives to speak up for the rights of Palestinians”
“It means we see a young Palestinian kid not as a future security threat or demographic challenge, but as a future father, mother and lover.”
Sleepwalking into our Constitutional Crisis in the Age of Trump
As a historian of the Middle East, let me just point out that declaring a state of emergency is a means of creating a president for life
Resetting the Nuclear Doomsday Clock
In addition to the mini-nukes to be loaded onto missiles on nuclear subs, Trump is also advocating a modernized anti missile defense system
Over our Heads: Climate Crisis Produces Stationary Catastrophic Weather Systems
If tropical cyclones are moving more slowly, this can leave particular regions bearing the brunt of the rainfall
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