Montréal (Special to Informed Comment; Featured) – As missiles fly across West Asia, I recall my trip to Iran where, in 2016, I discovered a […]
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It’s Not Just Iran: Conflict over Water Resources is on the Rise as Climate Crisis Grows
By Laureen Fagan ( Sustainability Times ) – The clash over water rights led to fighting between Iran and Afghanistan recently, in the latest battle […]
Greenhouse Gas Emissions are at an all-time High and Earth is Heating up Faster Than Ever
By Piers Forster, University of Leeds | – Greenhouse gas emissions are at an all-time high, with yearly emissions equivalent to 54 billion tonnes of […]
Mohammed Altamimi, Age 2: The Latest Victim of Israeli Apartheid Toward Palestinians
Belfast (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Like any other toddler in the world, two and a half years old Palestinian toddler Mohammed Altamimi was […]
Jada Pinkett Smith’s Black Cleopatra Stirred Controversy, but What about the Forgotten Queens of Ancient Nubia?
By Yasmin Moll, University of Michigan | – Jada Pinkett Smith’s new Netflix documentary series on Cleopatra aims to spotlight powerful African queens. “We don’t […]
Americans in Pain: Confronting the Phantom Limbs of America’s Foreign Wars
( Tomdispatch.com ) – America’s War on Terror, launched in response to the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, […]
Anti-Trans Politicians Are Following the Nazi Playbook
By Mitchell Zimmerman ( Otherwords ) – The 1920s were both good and bad times for the Jews of Germany. They’d been granted the same […]
With Two Damaging Trump Trials during the Campaign, did Joe Biden just become a Shoo-in in 2024?
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump’s two indictments will likely throw the 2024 election to Joe Biden. Assuming Biden remains in good health and there […]
Hate Groups’ Political Influence Growing: Southern Poverty Law Center
By: Ashley Murray – J ( Minnesota Reformer) – WASHINGTON — More than 1,200 hate and anti-government extremist groups were active across the United […]
Official Report: Palestinian-Israelis Pay higher Interest Rates on Loans in Israel than Jews
( Middle East Monitor ) – Arab citizens in Israel pay higher interest rates on bank loans than Jews, Israel’s Hebrew newspaper Maariv reported on […]