Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A new study by Dilek Koptekin et al., a Swiss-Turkish team, has appeared in Science that combines archeological and genetics […]
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Israel’s Visa refusal to Palestinian Harvard Fellow sparks calls for Boycott of Apartheid State
By Nasim Ahmed | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Israel has refused to grant a visa permit to one of Gaza’s highly acclaimed […]
Angry White Guys in Big-Ass Pickups: Climate Change and Fragile Masculinity
By Stan Cox | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – In the United States during 16 months in 2020 and 2021, vehicles rammed into groups of protesters […]
Fueled by virtually unrestricted Social Media Access, White Nationalism is on the Rise and attracting violent young White Men
By Sophie Bjork-James, Vanderbilt University | – White nationalists keep showing up in the hearings of the U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, […]
The End of the “Global War on Terror”: Biden takes out Ayman al-Zawahiri (1951-2022)
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – President Joe Biden announced on Monday evening that a CIA-operated drone had killed Ayman al-Zawahiri, the second leader of al-Qaeda […]
New Documents: The Israeli Massacre of Palestinians at Kafr Qasem in 1956 was Part of an Ethnic Cleansing Campaign
By Motasem A Dalloul | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – On Friday, archives of the Israeli forces released court documents related to the […]
‘Summer with the Enemy’ by Syrian novelist Shahla Ujayli is a searing summer read
By Michelle Hartman, McGill University | – Wherever you spend your summer, allow yourself to be transported to Syria and immerse yourself in the world […]
How Tunisians can instill Democracy in the Face of growing Authoritarianism
By Craig Brown | – ( Waging Nonviolence ) – As Tunisia’s president Kais Saied takes the country down the path of authoritarianism, opponents faced […]
How Samuel Alito’s Attack on Privacy Rights could Make that famous Star Trek Kiss between Nichelle Nichols and William Shatner Illegal Again
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Steve Chawkins writes in the LA Times that actress Nichelle Nichols died of a heart attack on Saturday at 89 […]
In Celtic Culture, August 1 is a Harvest Feast for the Sun-God, Lugh, and its Traces are All Around Us
Orono, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – We are approaching August 1 which, in Scottish and Irish tradition, is the Feast of Lughnasadh (La Lunasa), […]
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