Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas spoke remotely to the UN General Assembly on Thursday because the Trump administration denied him a […]
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Gaza Marks Another Grim Anniversary: One Year Since Deadly Hostilities that Killed Scores of Civilians
By Abier Almasri | Research Assistant, Middle East and North Africa Division | – ( Human Rights Watch ) – Friends abroad often ask how […]
Was the Visit to Iran of Syria’s al-Assad impelled by Fear of Russian Failure in Ukraine?
By Gilbert Achkar | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – The President of the Syrian regime, Bashar Al-Assad, paid a surprise visit to Tehran […]
The window of opportunity to address increasing Climate-Driven drought is vanishing
By Margot Hurlbert, University of Regina | – Chile, Argentina and the American West are in the midst of a decade-long, megadrought — the driest […]
Wind and Solar generate Fully 20% of US Electricity in April for First time as Renewables Jump to 26.5%
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The United States generates 6.5% of its electricity from dams, producing hydroelectricity, mainly in the West. Up until about a […]
Women to the Rescue: Review of “Hope but Demand Justice” by Pat Hynes
A Review of “Hope, But Demand Justice” By Pat Hynes (Haley’s, 2022) — by Nick Mottern (Special to Informed Comment) – The basic conclusion that […]
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 […]
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