Book Review – David Commins, “Saudi Arabia: A Modern History” (Yale University Press: New Haven and London, 2025). Munich (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – […]
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Prophecies, Then and Now: My Life at World’s End
( Tomdispatch.com ) – Indulge me for a moment. This is how “The Prophecy” in my 1962 high school yearbook began. It was written by some […]
Hypocrisy: Putin should be Punished as a War Criminal, but so Should many in Washington, D.C.
Vancouver (Feature, Special to Informed Comment) – It’s true – Russian president Vladimir Putin is a war criminal. As I wrote when the conflict with […]
Calls for a ‘Green’ Ramadan revive Islam’s long Tradition of Sustainability and Care for the Planet
By Noorzehra Zaidi, University of Maryland, Baltimore County | – For many Muslims breaking fast in mosques around the world this Ramadan, something will be […]
On World Water Day: By 2036, 18 of World’s Water-Scarce Countries will be in Middle East
Elif Selin Calik CalikSelin ( Middle East Monitor ) – The Middle East may have an abundance of oil and gas, […]
Texas Plaintiffs targeting Abortion Pill want Judge to Overrule FDA: Why that might not even be Possible
By: Sofia Resnick ( Florida Phoenix) – At the center of the federal anti-abortion lawsuit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is the abortion drug mifepristone […]
No, Mr. Smotrich, Palestinians are not New in History, and all Nationalisms are Modern, including the Israeli
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Bezalel Smotrich in a speech in Paris over the weekend maintained that there are no Palestinians and that the whole […]
For the first time in US History, Sympathy for Palestinians has overtaken Sympathy for Israelis among Democrats
US sympathy for Palestinians at unprecedented level as Israel’s image is hit ( Middle East Monitor ) – For the first time in US history, […]
“Plasticosis:” Seabirds that swallow Plastic Waste have Diseased, Scarred Stomachs
By Matthew Savoca, Stanford University | – As a conservation biologist who studies plastic ingestion by marine wildlife, I can count on the same question […]
A Highway to Peace or a Highway to Hell? The Vast Power of the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex
( Tomdispatch.com) – In April 1953, newly elected President Dwight D. Eisenhower, a retired five-star Army general who had led the landings on D-Day in […]
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