Belfast (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Last week, Israel launched the latest of some 300 raids into Syria in the past few months. Some […]
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Biden once wanted to make Saudi Arabia a ‘pariah’ – so why is he playing nice with the kingdom’s repressive rulers now?
By Jeffrey Fields, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences | – (The Conversation) – Even before setting foot in the Middle East for […]
Iran Moves To Tighten Abortion Restrictions
By Golnaz Esfandiari | – ( RFE/RL ) – Maryam ended her pregnancy two years ago using abortion pills. Her husband supported her. The couple […]
‘Waste no more time’ — a teacher’s call to act on gun violence
By Michael Nagler and Francesca Po | – ( Waging Nonviolence) – Given the almost inconceivable tragedy that has been visited on our schools — […]
Why Iran’s Provision of Drones to Russia for Ukraine War is a Diplomatic Failure of the Biden Administration
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – President Biden’s National Security Advisor on Monday spoke of the goals of the president’s trip, which begins today, Tuesday, to […]
Palestinians are Uniting, caught between Alliance of Authoritarian States and Western Indifference
By Tareq Baconi | – ( Al-Shabaka ) – Over the course of the past decade, a new regional architecture has come into focus in […]
Lebanon’s Plan to Deport 15K Syrian Refugees per month back to Syria Is Unsafe and Unlawful
By Lama Fakih, Director, Middle East and North Africa Division | – Human Rights Watch – Lebanon’s caretaker Minister of the Displaced Issam Charafeddine announced […]
Militant white identity politics on full display in GOP political ads featuring high-powered weapons
By Ryan Neville-Shepard, University of Arkansas and Casey Ryan Kelly, University of Nebraska-Lincoln | – (The Conversation) – Republican Eric Greitens, a candidate for Missouri’s […]
On Cusp of Biden visit to Saudi Arabia, GAO questions US Accounting for Civilian Harm caused in Yemen by its Weapons
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – President Biden is on the cusp of going off to Saudi Arabia as one part of his upcoming Middle East […]
Review of Ilham Tohti, We Uyghurs Have No Say: An Imprisoned Writer Speaks
Tuebingen (Special to Ann Arbor) – Review of Ilham Tohti, We Uyghurs Have No Say: An Imprisoned Writer Speaks (London: Verso, 2022). Ilham Tohti, a […]
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