Gainesville, Fl. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – When it comes to for-profit, private corporate incarceration of immigrants, making lots of money is like drinking […]
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Poor Iranians Sell Their Organs Amid Deepening Economic Crisis
One-third of Iran’s population reportedly lives in extreme poverty. Some people are so poor that they have resorted to selling their organs on the black […]
United Nations for First Time Recognizes 1948 Israeli Ethnic Cleansing (Nakbah) of Palestinians
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Today, May 15, for the first time a commemoration will be held at the United Nations HQ in New York […]
Time for some Climate Optimism: These 4 Charts on the Unstoppable Growth of Solar will Blow your Mind
By Andrew Blakers, Australian National University | – (The Conversation) – Last year, the world built more new solar capacity than every other power source […]
Israeli Military Apologizes for Killing US Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, a Year after the Shooting
( Middle East Monitor ) – Israel’s military has apologised for its killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, after a year of denial […]
Divest, Decarbonize and Dissociate – Inside the Bold new Push to Get Fossil Fuels off Campus
By Nick Engelfried ( Waging Nonviolence) – From late November through early March of this year, visitors to the University of Washington Career Center in […]
Not just Cards and Flowers: The 1st ‘Mother’s Day for Peace’ was Held in New York in 1872
Greenville, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment – Feature) – The 19th century origins of Mother’s Day differ vastly in spirit and purpose from celebrations of […]
The Nakba: 75 years after losing their Home, the Palestinians are still Experiencing the “Catastrophe”
By Dina Matar, SOAS, University of London | – When Palestinians commemorate the Nakba (the catastrophe) on May 15, they are not only remembering a […]
In Turkey, Election Manipulation Abounded in the Run-up to Today’s Presidential Election
( Globalvoices.org ) – In Turkey, ahead of the country’s most important election in recent memory, being held today, Sunday May 14, the ruling Justice […]
On One-Year Anniversary of Israeli Army Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh: Deadly Pattern: 20 journalists died by Israeli military fire in 22 years. No one has been held accountable
. ( Committee to Protect Journalists ) – The May 11, 2022, killing of Al-Jazeera Arabic correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh is part of a […]
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