Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Syrians are rejoicing at the announcement on Tuesday by President Donald J. Trump that he will lift U.S. economic sanctions […]
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Will Japan be the Godzilla of Deep Sea Current Energy?
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – If you were going to try to generate electricity from a deep water ocean current, you’d like it to be […]
Supreme Court Expands Government Secrecy Powers in Torture-Related Case
By Robert Pallitto | – (Foreign Policy in Focus ) – The U.S. government doesn’t want to acknowledge a Polish torture site that everyone knows […]
War as Terrorism: Conflicts We Can’t Win, Suffering We Don’t See
( Tomdispatch.com) – Anyone who grew up in my generation of 1980s kids remembers G.I. Joe action figures — those green-uniformed plastic soldiers you could […]
Shavuot: A Jewish holiday of renewing commitment to God
By Alan Avery-Peck, College of the Holy Cross | – The festival of Shavuot, marked this year on June 5 and 6, celebrates the biblical […]
Shouting “Death to Arabs,” Far Right Israeli Squatters Storm Palestinian Holy Sites, Towns and Schools
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that hundreds of Israeli squatters on Palestinian land organized taunting processions “of the flag” […]
The Death of a Thousand Cuts: This is how Israel is illegally Annexing the Palestinian West Bank
(Middle East Monitor ) – Israel’s Supreme Court has decided that the Palestinian region of Masafer Yatta in the southern hills of Hebron is to […]
Stubborn US, UK Oil Investments Expose Corporations, Investors to $1.7 Trillion in Stranded Assets
By Laureen Fagan | – ( Sustainability Times ) – Universities, governments, faith groups and others are changing their investment policies to better align with […]
If Western Countries demand that Russia follow International Law, Why don’t They Themselves?
By Amyn Sajoo, Simon Fraser University | – With a passion that recalls the aftermath of the Second World War, politicians and commentators are demanding […]
On Memorial Day, let’s get the 900 US Troops out of Syria and away from any War with Russia or Iran
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Memorial Day or Decoration Day (referring to the decoration of the graves of soldiers killed in combat) began after the […]
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