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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How Turkey’s Opposition Elite enabled Erdoğan and Misled Voters
Written bySinan Ciddi ( Globalvoices.org ) – The sources of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s power are vast. In his over twenty years of rule, […]
Defending Professor Satyel Larson’s Right to Teach her Field freely at Princeton despite Israel Lobbies’ Pressure
Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association Christopher Eisgruber President, Princeton University fax: 609-258-1615 Professor Gene Jarrett Dean of the Faculty, Princeton […]
Trump joins a long Line of Thuggish Racketeers who took a Defiant Mug Shot that did them no Good, including Al Capone
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The tactic of staring sternly into the camera in defiance when having a mug shot taken after being charged and […]
Saudi Arabia’s Pro League is taking Advantage of Football’s Greed and Inequality
By Alan McDougall, University of Guelph | – (The Conversation) – For Liverpool supporters like me, Jordan Henderson was one of football’s good guys. He […]
Kissinger at 100: Did Realism really require War Crimes?
( Tomdispatch.com ) – Henry Alfred Kissinger turned 100 on May 27th of this year. Once a teenage refugee from Nazi Germany, for many decades […]
As America faces Greatest Threat in Climate Crisis, Yellow-Bellied Republican Candidates Cower in Denial
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Neil Vigdor at the NYT focuses on the short moment in the Republican Debate last night when reality intervened in […]
Israeli Media Slams Netanyahu over his accusation that every Little Guerrilla Operation in West Bank is Directed by Iran
( Middle East Monitor ) – Israeli media outlets have criticised Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after he accused Iran of directing resistance counterattacks in the […]
Coral Reefs: How Human-caused Climate Change poses a dire Threat to the hidden Diversity of aquatic Ecosystems
By Samuel Starko, The University of Western Australia and Julia K. Baum, University of Victoria | – Like the heat waves on land we have […]
Climate Change is now throwing at us Every Weapon in its Arsenal, from Heat Domes to Massive Wildfires, to Mega-Hurricanes
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – For the most part, the earth is heating up just in the way that climate change models from a decade […]
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