San Francisco (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – This week will go down in history as a time when the governing body of the Democratic […]
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New data shows No Kings was One of the largest Days of Protest in US history
The historic number of No Kings Day protesters and their expansive geographic spread are signs of a growing and durable pro-democracy movement. Erica Chenoweth, Soha […]
Iran’s Nature is under Threat – here’s how better environmental Stewardship can save it
By Shooka Bidarian, United Nations University and Mark Maslin, UCL (The Conversation) – From arid deserts and alpine meadows to dense wetlands and temperate forests, […]
Psychopathocracy 3.0
This essay was first published in January 2017. It seems even more prescient 8 and a half years later. At that time I could not […]
Bare Life: Israel is engineering Starvation to Redefine the Meaning of Life for Palestinians
by Maheera Munir
After 4 years of Repressive Taliban Rule, Afghans are Suffering in Silence. Is the World still Watching?
By Niamatullah Ibrahimi, The University of Melbourne; Arif Saba, Deakin University, and Safiullah Taye, Australian Catholic University (The Conversation) – On August 15 2021, Afghanistan’s […]
Under the Sea: China’s Digital Silk Road and the Middle East
London (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – China-US geopolitical rivalries have manifested in many arenas from esoteric ones like export controls over semiconductor chips, to […]
The Obliteration Doctrine, and the West’s Complicity
Obliteration and the West’s Complicity A Two-Part Q&A on Dr Steinbock’s The Obliteration Doctrine DG Team Dr Steinbock’s highly topical new book The Obliteration Doctrine […]
No Country is an Island: Trump’s Destruction of Global Heath will Bite us on the Posterior
By William deBuys ( Tomdispatch.com ) – The totalitarian playbook that Donald Trump seems to follow lacks a chapter. Power-crazed the president may be, but […]
Saudi Arabia in Modern History
Book Review – David Commins, “Saudi Arabia: A Modern History” (Yale University Press: New Haven and London, 2025). Munich (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – […]
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