Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The first recorded world-historical pandemic took place in the Roman Empire and Sasanian Iran, as well as neighboring areas such […]
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How We’re making a Frankenstein’s Monster of our Climate (Giesen)
Tom Giesen writes in a guest column at Informed Comment The option to avoid 3.6 degrees F (2 degrees C) of global warming – our […]
Dear Rightwing Catholic Islamophobes: Pope Francis just washed the feet of a Poor Muslim
Pope Francis on Maundy Thursday declined to address enormous crowds. Instead he went to a prison to emulate Jesus’s act of humility before his crucifixion […]
Vaccinations are not Harming our Children, but Coal sure is!
Yet again, researchers have found that there is no link between vaccines and autism. It is a myth, a hysteria, and a dangerous one, since […]
Carter: Guinea Worm parasite on verge of being wiped out (Cenk Uygur)
Cenk Uygur interviews former president Jimmy Carter concerning his imminent complete eradication of the deadly guinea worm: This extremely impressive achievement of Carter and his […]
If Guns were as Regulated as Cars . . . (Poster)
h/t Allvoices
Amnesia or Cowardice? American Anniversaries we’d Rather Forget (Engelhardt)
Tom Engelhardt writes at Tomdispatch.com It’s true that, last week, few in Congress cared to discuss, no less memorialize, the 10th anniversary of the invasion of […]
Dear President Obama: Let’s Help Yemen instead of Droning It
This is a [pdf] letter to President Obama pleading for a substantial rethink of Yemen policy in his second term, which I among other Middle […]
Mopping up with Muslim Sharia (Colbert Report)
Among all of the obsessions of the Red States, the fixation on the danger of Muslim law (sharia) taking over the United States is the […]
Palestinians Protest illegal Israeli Theft of Water Rights
Palestinians staged a protest march on Wednesday to protest Israeli denial to their villages of their water rights. Israelis now take 80% of the water […]
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