Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani made a campaign ad in quite passable colloquial Arabic for the some 180,000 Arab residents of […]
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Plagues in the Making: RFK Jr. guts CDC, comes for your Children’s Health
Chicago (Special to Informed Comment, Feature) – With a Cabinet full of fascists, fools, drunks, and sycophants, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stands out as a […]
“With me along some Strip of Herbage Strown:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:10
The tenth quatrain in the first edition of Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám continues the theme of the irrelevance of political power to happiness, […]
Trump threatens UN Visa Ban for Brazil over Pro-Palestine Stance
By Eman Abusidu ( Middle East Monitor ) – US President Donald Trump escalated tensions with Brazil on Friday (5), labeling the South American country’s […]
Trump as a Slow-Motion Apocalypse
( Tomdispatch.com ) – Imagine for a moment a nuclear weapon exploding over… well, you name it: Pakistan, India or, for that matter, Ukraine, Russia, […]
Morocco Produces 1 gigawatt of Solar Panels Annually, as it turns to Floatovoltaics
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Morocco continues to be a pioneer in renewable energy in Africa and the Arab world. The International Trade Administration notes […]
New Data Shows Massive Emissions From Texas Wells, Despite Trump Denials
by Martha Pskowski, Inside Climate News, and Mark Olalde, ProPublica Co-published with Inside Climate News and The Texas Tribune ( ProPublica ) – Hakim Dermish […]
Speeding Up Climate Action: Triggering Positive Tipping Points
By Tim Lenton, University of Exeter (The Conversation) – The collapse of a major system of ocean currents, the meltdown of major ice sheets or […]
Genocide Scholars: Israel is Committing a Genocide in Gaza, and we Should Know
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On the last day of August, 2025, the International Association of Genocide Scholars, a scholarly body with more than 500 […]
The Shanghai Cooperation Org. Summit and the Middle East in a Multipolar World
By Peiman Salehi | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – The recent Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Beijing was accompanied by a striking […]
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