Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a dramatic signal that the Arab Gulf nations have completely lost faith in the American security umbrella, on Wednesday […]
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Timbuktu Manuscripts Online promise to re-balance the African Continent’s place in World intellectual History
By Charles C. Stewart, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | – The ancient Timbuktu manuscripts of Mali were back in the headlines following internet giant […]
Ketanji Brown Jackson joins a Court that once Ruled Black Women had no Rights at All
Revised. Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – An unprecedented ceremony at the White House on Friday celebrated the confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson as Associate Justice […]
Germany boosts renewables with “biggest energy policy reform in decades”
By Kerstine Appunn and Julian Wettengel | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – Germany wants to fight the climate crisis and its heavy dependence […]
Syria’s dire economy and years of fighting send young ‘mercenaries’ to fight in Ukraine
By Raseef22 | – ( Globalvoices.org ) – Following years of a devastating war that continues to fragment the country, Syria is now exporting professional […]
IPCC report: We can’t Meet Climate Goals, without Deeply Slashing our CO2 Emissions
Jack Marley | – The world has the means to avert the greatest ravages of global heating – but we must deploy them immediately, while […]
Wind generation for First Time Outstrips both Coal and Nuclear in US
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Ben Storrow of Climate Wire tweeted this week that “Last Tuesday, total U.S. wind generation exceeded 2,000 GWh, making wind […]
Bin Putin? How Russia is increasingly becoming the Saudi Arabia of the North
( Foreign Policy in Focus) – A failed military intervention. The genocidal killing of citizens. Economic isolation by the international community. The arrests of anti-war […]
War in Ukraine is testing some American evangelicals’ support for Putin as a leader of conservative values
By Melani McAlister, George Washington University | – In February 2022, evangelical leader Franklin Graham called on his followers to pray for Vladimir Putin. His […]
My Grandfather Fled Ukraine 140 Years Ago, Now it is an Icon of Our long History of War
( Tomdispatch.com) – Excuse me if I wander a little today — and if it bothers you, don’t blame me, blame Vladimir Putin. After all, […]
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