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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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 […]
Top 8 Ways to tell if you’re a White Supremacist who believes in the Great Replacement
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In the wake of the Buffalo mass murder of 10 African-Americans by a privileged, hateful white teen hopped up on […]
Constantly on the verge of Collapse: How Palestinians became the Linchpin of Israeli Politics
( Middle East Monitor) – Israel’s coalition government of right-wing Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett, is on the verge of collapse, which is unsurprising. Israeli politics, […]
Why Turkey isn’t on board with Finland, Sweden joining NATO – and why that matters
By Ronald Suny, University of Michigan | – After decades of neutrality, the two Scandinavian states that have to date remained out of the North […]
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