Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to position Israel as the modern day Sparta, and to sell […]
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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 […]
The MAGAfication of America: The White Nationalist Coup isn’t Over
By Clarence Lusane | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – Just in case you didn’t notice, authoritarianism was on the ballot in the 2022 midterm elections. An […]
Israel: Netanyahu puts Homophobic Fundamentalist who doesn’t think most American Jews are Jewish in Charge of Office of Jewish Identity
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – So Noam is a far right Jewish fundamentalist party in Israel that has a connection to the Har Hamor seminary […]
A Letter to President Joe Biden: About that pledge you Made of “Diplomacy First”
Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment) – Dear Joe, Remember the mid-March snowball fight with some boys in our 8th grade class at St Helena’s […]
To fight the Climate Crisis, We need to stop expanding Offshore Drilling for Oil and Gas
By Daniel Skerritt, University of British Columbia and Claire Huang, Duke University | – Environmental disaster struck the shores of Peru on Jan. 15, 2022, […]
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