Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The first recorded world-historical pandemic took place (541–750 CE) in the Roman Empire and Sasanian Iran, as well as neighboring […]
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We Have not Yet been Defeated: Who will Pay for an Overheating Earth?
By Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – On October 29th, 75-year-old Saifullah Paracha, Guantánamo Bay’s oldest detainee, was finally […]
Climate Change is increasing the Intensity of Tropical Storms, and even Weak ones are now Fiercer
Wei Mei, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Shang-Ping Xie, University of California, San Diego Tropical cyclones have been growing stronger worldwide over […]
The Pakistani Mega-Flood and our Climate Emergency
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Here is a talk I recently gave about the mega-flood this fall in Pakistan, which affected 33 million people, inundated […]
What Climate Debt Does the North Owe the South?
( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – Richer countries haven’t met their $100 billion promise to help poorer countries move beyond fossil fuels. Where’s the […]
Oath Keepers Convictions shed Light on the Limits of free Speech – and the Threat posed by Militias
By Amy Cooter, Middlebury Institute of International Studies | – The verdicts in a high-profile, monthslong trial of Oath Keepers militia members were, as one […]
Syria: Families of ‘Disappeared’ Deserve Answers: UN Proposal Offers Promising Pathway (HRW)
( Human Rights Watch – (Beirut) – United Nations member countries should establish an international, independent entity to track and identify those missing and disappeared […]
It isn’t Enough that Oath Keepers were Convicted of Seditious Conspiracy: Trump must be, Too
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Ryan Lucas and Carrie Johnson at NPR report that on Tuesday, a jury convicted five leaders of the fascist Oath […]
Are Israel’s Nuclear Weapons — an Open Secret — the Greatest Threat to the Middle East?
( Middle East Monitor ) – As western countries are floating the theory that Russia could escalate its conflict with Ukraine to a nuclear war, […]
Headwear and Hegemony: how ‘Turban Tossing’ Protests are threatening Iran’s ruling Clergy
By Negar Partow, Massey University | – (The Conversation) – The ongoing protests in Iran over the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini while in the […]
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