This essay was first published in January 2017. It seems even more prescient 8 and a half years later. At that time I could not […]
Main Content
5 technologies that will help make the food system carbon neutral
By Rene Van Acker, University of Guelph; Evan Fraser, University of Guelph; and Lenore Newman, University of The Fraser Valley | – Globally, about one-third […]
Dumping Russian Gas: 4 European countries seek 65 GW Offshore Wind by 2030, as EU Pledges $314 bn. for Green Energy
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Anyone who follows the climate emergency and extreme weather events would think the serial catastrophes of the past couple years […]
Republican Mainstreaming of White Supremacy Fuels Extremist Violence like the Racist Massacre in Buffalo
Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – “All race politics is bad, all race politics is poison — it erases people, it dehumanizes them. Race politics […]
Climate Emergency: 2022 Drought in Western US the Harbinger of a hotter, thirstier Atmosphere
By Imtiaz Rangwala, University of Colorado Boulder | – Much of the western U.S. has been in the grip of an unrelenting drought since early […]
Where Are the Men? No More Bystander Boys in the Post-Roe Era
By Robert Lipsyte | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – For 50 years now, people have told desperate, heart-breaking stories about what it was like to […]
George W. Bush denounces “the decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq — I mean, Ukraine”
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Michael Williams at the Dallas Morning News reports on George W. Bush’s speech at his presidential center at Southern Methodist […]
Israel-Palestine: Supreme Injustice and Counting the Omer
( Traveling Twins ) – As we celebrate the annual Lag BaOmer pilgrimage to Mount Meron in Israel this week– the 33rd day of the […]
Lebanese Election sees significant Gains for independent non-sectarian Politicians
By John Nagle, Queen’s University Belfast and Tamirace Fakhoury, Aalborg University | – Lebanese voters are signalling a desire for change, with Hezbollah and its […]
International Silence over Israel’s media Repression is also an Attack on the Palestinian Narratives
( Middle East Monitor ) – While there is still much focus on the extrajudicial killing of Palestinian-American journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh, calls for justice […]
© 2025 All Rights Reserved