Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reports that 19 of every 100 Palestinian children in Gaza are malnourished. That is […]
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Speeding Up Climate Action: Triggering Positive Tipping Points
By Tim Lenton, University of Exeter (The Conversation) – The collapse of a major system of ocean currents, the meltdown of major ice sheets or […]
Genocide Scholars: Israel is Committing a Genocide in Gaza, and we Should Know
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On the last day of August, 2025, the International Association of Genocide Scholars, a scholarly body with more than 500 […]
The Shanghai Cooperation Org. Summit and the Middle East in a Multipolar World
By Peiman Salehi | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – The recent Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Beijing was accompanied by a striking […]
Israel’s ‘Refuseniks’: a growing Number of Soldiers are refusing to Serve in Netanyahu’s War on Gaza
By Leonie Fleischmann, City St George’s, University of London (The Conversation) – The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has ordered the Israel Defense Forces to […]
A Reluctant (Iranian) Exile: Minister without Portfolio
A Review of Minister Without Portfolio: Memoir of a Reluctant Exile by Hooman Majd. Detroit (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Everybody needs a home. […]
Why Trump’s Fight with India could have global Repercussions
By Sambit Bhattacharyya, University of Sussex (The Conversation) – Donald Trump’s tariff policy seems to have morphed into as much of a tool of foreign […]
Will Cancer Prove to be Another Weapon in Israel’s War in Gaza?
( Tomdispatch.com ) – A week after the Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023, a large explosion incinerated a parking lot near the busy Al-Ahli […]
Global Solar skyrockets 64% in H1, as Trump SecEnergy Wright gets Schooled
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Ember energy consultancy reports that in the first half of 2025, the world put in 380 gigawatts of new […]
“But come with old Khayyam and leave the Lot,” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:9
As with stanza 1:8, the next quatrain in Edward FitzGerald’s 1859 translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám concerns the fleeting character of political glory, […]
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