Bezazel Smotrich is one of political leaders of Israel’s Messianic far-right. But he is also a shrewd administrator executing a biblical “decisive plan” of ethnic […]
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Taliban in Power – One Year On
By Amina Khan | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – On 15 August 2021, the world looked on with trepidation as the situation in […]
Faced with Extremism within its Ranks, US Military has clamped down on racist Speech, including Retweets and Likes
By Dwight Stirling, University of Southern California | – Less than a month after the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol, Secretary of […]
A Military Rich in Dollars, Poor in People: And our Frayed Social Safety Net
Andrea Mazzarino | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – The American military is now having trouble recruiting enough soldiers. According to the New York Times, its ranks […]
Climate Emergency: Europe Parched, Farms Fallow, as Lakes and Rivers Dry up in worst Drought since time of Christ
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Europe is in the throes of a once-in-500 years severe drought that is making its rivers into shallow streams and […]
Afghan Women are refusing to remain Silent One Year after the Taliban Takeover
By Homa Hoodfar, Concordia University and Mona Tajali, Agnes Scott College | – (The Conversation) – On Aug. 15, it will be a year since […]
Why Is Iran Executing So Many Prisoners?
By Giovana Faria | – ( RFE/RL ) – With a long list of crimes punishable by death, Iran put at least 314 prisoners to […]
Climate Change Threatens the Most Iconic U.S. Landscapes, from Joshua Trees to Wetlands
By Farrah Hassen | – ( Otherwords ) – Over the past decade, I’ve traveled countless times to the desert regions east of San Bernardino […]
In Honor of Salman Rushdie, Novelist and Stabbing Victim: Midnight’s Other Children, by Juan Cole
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Salman Rushdie, Booker Prize-winning novelist, was repeatedly stabbed on Friday at a literary event at Chautauqua Institution in western New […]
From the Greatest Generation to the Trump Generation: Can America’s Drastic Decline be Reversed?
( Tomdispatch.com) – I find nothing strange in Joe Biden, at 79 (going on 80), being the oldest president in our history and possibly planning […]
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