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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US Smug about Russia’s Failures in Ukraine, Forgetting the Iraq and Afghanistan Quagmires
(Tomdispatch.com) – In Washington, wide agreement exists that the Russian army’s performance in the Kremlin’s ongoing Ukraine “special military operation” ranks somewhere between lousy and […]
Those Iranian Planes Ferrying Drones to Moscow Flew over Georgia: But who gave Permission?
By Nadia Beard | – ( RFE/ RL) – TBILISI — Georgia’s position on the war in Ukraine has again come under domestic scrutiny after […]
African Odyssey: How Shiite Islam reached Tanzania, and Ashoura Processions became an Annual Tradition
By Mara Leichtman, Michigan State University | – (The Conversation) – Each year, the largest contemporary Muslim pilgrimage takes place in Iraq to remember Imam […]
World’s largest Offshore Wind Farm Operational in UK, offering Lower Energy Prices, as Tories Scoff
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Danish wind energy company Orsted reported recently that its massive 1.3 gigawatt offshore wind farm, Hornsea 2, off the […]
Working with Local Knowledge only way to save Pakistan from Flood Disasters
By Daanish Mustafa | – ( The Third Pole) – How would a decolonised water perspective and practice mitigate the effects of the type of […]
Egypt, among Countries most Threatened by Climate Emergency, Cripples Environmental Groups
Human Rights Watch – (Beirut) – The Egyptian government has severely curtailed environmental groups’ ability to carry out independent policy, advocacy, and field work essential […]
Iran and the US appear unlikely to reach a new Nuclear Deal – leaving Everyone more Unsafe
By Nina Srinivasan Rathbun, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences | – (The Conversation) – Iran’s standoff with the United States over its […]
Muslim Americans are Young, Patriotic and Bullish on this Country, and are not to Blame for 9/11
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Yesterday, America observed a commemoration of 21 years since the September 11, 2001 attacks by al-Qaeda on key US targets. […]
9/11 Survivors’ exposure to Toxic Dust and the chronic Health Conditions that followed offer Lessons that are still too often Unheeded
By Roberto Lucchini, Florida International University | – (The Conversation) – The 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York resulted in […]
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