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When even Saudi Arabia Jumps into Solar and Wind Power, You know Change is Here
Climate Crisis

When even Saudi Arabia Jumps into Solar and Wind Power, You know Change is Here

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Saudi Arabia’s massive oil deposits and its 9.53 million barrels per day (bpd) of petroleum production make it an enormous […]

How Europe is managing Guilt over Gaza: The Politics of moral Cleansing

How Europe is managing Guilt over Gaza: The Politics of moral Cleansing

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Trump Junk: Won’t Enforce Rules for Short-Term Junk Health Insurance Plans

Trump Junk: Won’t Enforce Rules for Short-Term Junk Health Insurance Plans

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Climate Crisis
Responsibility for the Invasion of Ukraine and for Climate Change

Responsibility for the Invasion of Ukraine and for Climate Change

Kalamazoo, MI (Special to Informed Comment) – Many are rightly celebrating a resurgence of liberalism as the Free World rallies against Putin’s war of choice. […]

Paul Clements

Israel/ Palestine
Israel has Deprived Palestinians of Right to Choose Int’l Scholars and Students for Palestinian Universities: MESA

Israel has Deprived Palestinians of Right to Choose Int’l Scholars and Students for Palestinian Universities: MESA

Committee on Academic Freedom, Middle East Studies Association of North America: Letter protesting new Israel Government directive regarding selection of international scholars and students to […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

Inequality
It Goes up but Never Comes Down: What Would It Take to Reduce US Military Spending?

It Goes up but Never Comes Down: What Would It Take to Reduce US Military Spending?

( Tomdispatch.com) – I have a question for you: What would it take in today’s world for America’s military spending to go down? Here’s one […]

William J. Astore

Bashar al-Assad
Yes, Bucha is a War Crime: Putin Told us who He was in East Aleppo

Yes, Bucha is a War Crime: Putin Told us who He was in East Aleppo

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Russian withdrawal from the small town of Bucha near the capital of Kyiv left behind a raft of murdered […]

Juan Cole

History
The Dangers of Assaulting Fortress Kyiv: The Peril Putin's Troops Now Face was Shown by the Battles of Stalingrad, Grozny, and Mosul

The Dangers of Assaulting Fortress Kyiv: The Peril Putin’s Troops Now Face was Shown by the Battles of Stalingrad, Grozny, and Mosul

Brian Glyn Williams (University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth) and Aaron Rawley. Aaron Rawley is Volunteer Personnel Coordinator at the Gore Place Historical Museum, Waltham Mass. Dartmouth, […]

Brian Glyn Williams

Authoritarianism
Facing severe Repression, Russians are turning to antiwar Graffiti

Facing severe Repression, Russians are turning to antiwar Graffiti

By Colleen Wood and Alexis Lerner | – ( Waging Nonviolence ) – It is exceedingly difficult to organize peaceful protests in Russia. Since the […]

Waging Nonviolence

Human Rights
What are War Crimes?  Ukraine Atrocities and the Likelihood of Prosecuting Putin

What are War Crimes? Ukraine Atrocities and the Likelihood of Prosecuting Putin

By Amy Lieberman, The Conversation, interviewing Abel Escribà-Folch, Alexander Hinton, Joseph Wright and Shelley Inglis | – Russian troops retreated from Kyiv and the nearby […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
White House OMB: Climate Crisis to cost US $2 trillion Each and Every Year in 8 Decades

White House OMB: Climate Crisis to cost US $2 trillion Each and Every Year in 8 Decades

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Timothy Gardner at Reuters has gotten an advance look at a White House Office of Management and Budget document that […]

Juan Cole

Russia
Ukraine: are reports of Russian troops mutinying and deserting true? It’s happened before

Ukraine: are reports of Russian troops mutinying and deserting true? It’s happened before

By Natasha Lindstaedt, University of Essex | – Reports have emerged in recent days that Russian troops in Ukraine, stalled in their advance and suffering […]

The Conversation

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