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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Tech “Visionaries” are Actually Holding back Progress with Bloated, Predatory Corporations
By Peter Bloom, >University of Essex | – Technological innovation in the last couple of decades has brought fame and huge wealth to the likes […]
Extreme Right Israeli Gov’t brands “Illegal” Supreme Court’s upholding of Judicial Review; Divisions Loom amid Gaza War
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In the midst of Israel’s brutal total war on Palestinian civilians in Gaza and its apparent failure to attain its […]
Dear President Biden: About your Record on Guns, Arms, and Belligerence
Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment) – President Joe Biden Dear Joe, I would wish you a Happy New Year; but it seems trite and […]
Charles Kendal Hirschkind sings “Palestine is Burning.”
Charles Kendal Hirschkind, “Palestine is Burning.” For writings on Israeli assault on Gaza by Charles Hirschkind, see: The Invisible Slaughter of Palestinian Children . Informed […]
The Year’s 10 Good News Stories for Children’s Rights, including Iraqi Curbs on Child Soldiers
Jo Becker Advocacy Director, Children’s Rights Division ( Human Rights Watch) – Grim stories of conflict, abuse, and deprivation seem to confront us every […]
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam: “When New Year’s rainclouds wash the tulip’s face”
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In the quatrains attributed to the medieval Iranian astronomer Omar Khayyam, the Rubáiyát, the renewal that comes with New Year […]
“Stop Weaponizing Antisemitism:” Ex-Harvard Hillel Leader
Jessica Corbett ( Commondreams.org) – “For the safety of Jews and Palestinians, stop weaponizing antisemitism.” That’s the headline of a Friday op-ed from Bernie Steinberg, […]
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Israel uses Starvation as a Weapon of War in Gaza
By Jehan Alfarra | – ( Middle East Monitor ) = “Bread in those days was like gold.” These were the words of a survivor […]
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