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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World Bank observations on Palestine’s economy gloss over Israel’s Colonialism and Apartheid
( Middle East Monitor ) – Humanitarian aid, which has played a major role in stagnating Palestine and Palestinians, is one of the factors mentioned […]
The Empire’s New Clothes: The Veneer of Accountability Is Wearing Thin in Twenty-First-Century America
( Tomdispatch.com ) – If you watched TV in the 1960s and 1970s as I did, you would undoubtedly have come away with the idea […]
Majority of Americans of all Religions or None want Legal Abortion, except for Evangelicals and 47% of Catholics
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Pew Research Center has a poll out on views about abortion of American religious groups. It shows that in […]
SCOTUS Dispensing with Roe v. Wade Is Attack on Religious Freedom and Jewish Law
Oakland (Special to Informed Comment) – The leaked SCOTUS draft to overturn Roe v. Wade leaves a lot to unpack. For Jews, Muslims and other […]
Did the Ukraine War lead to Turkish-Saudi Rapprochement?
Motasem A Dalloul | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Turkish President Recep Erdogan visited Jeddah in July 2017 and met Saudi Arabia’s King […]
Protecting Biodiversity – and making it Accessible – has paid off for Costa Rica
By Alejandra Echeverri Ochoa, Stanford University and Jeffrey R. Smith
Jared Kushner to invest Saudi Funds in Israeli Tech: Is MBS sidestepping his father King Salman on Palestine?
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Dion Nissenbaum and Rory Jones at the Wall Street Journal got the scoop that Affinity, Jared Kushner’s investment firm, will […]
Cole Interview: The Qur’an, the Crucifixion and Jews: Rebutting Iranian War Propaganda against Byzantium
Ziryab Jamal interviewed me on my article: Juan Cole, “‘It was made to appear to them so’: the crucifixion, Jews and Sasanian war propaganda in […]
How Long can Israel’s Minority Government survive Wave of Racial, Petty Partisan Rivalries?
Motasem A Dalloul | – Before forming the current dilapidated government coalition last year, the Israeli occupation state went through four elections in two years. […]
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