Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Tayyip Erdogan, the president of Türkiye (formerly Turkey) spent this spring vowing that Sweden and Finland would not be admitted […]
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What Difference Does a War Make? The Geopolitics of the New Cold War
( Tomdispatch.com ) – From his first days in office, Joe Biden and his national security advisers seemed determined to revive America’s fading global leadership […]
Israel’s Apartheid Law Causes Bennett Government to Fall, on Eve of Biden’s Visit
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that Prime Minister Naftali Bennett will dissolve parliament and go to new elections. His […]
Diplomacy, not total Victory, will in the End Settle the Ukraine War
Russia’s attack on the Ukraine certainly violated international law and Vladimir Putin should be charged as a war criminal for Russia’s indiscriminate bombing of hospitals, […]
Interview: How Israel’s Travel Ban Crushes the Dreams of the Palestinians of Gaza
By Paul Aufiero, Omar Shakir, and Abier Almasri | – ( Human Rights Watch ) This month marks the 15th anniversary of the Israeli government’s […]
Greenwashing: how Ads get you to think Brands are greener than they are – and how to avoid falling for it
By Morteza Abolhasani, The Open University; Gordon Liu, The Open University; and Zahra Golrokhi, The Open University | – Ads are ubiquitous in many people’s […]
Greens return to French Parliament in Left Coalition, as Neoliberal Macron loses Majority
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – France’s parliamentary elections witnessed an upset, with centrist President Emmanuel Macron’s party, La République En Marche and its Ensemble coalition […]
New Identity: Religion, Nationalism and Foreign Policy in Turkey (Review)
Review of Filiz Çoban Oran, Religion, Nationalism and Foreign Policy: Discursive Construction of New Turkey’s Identity. London: I.B. Tauris, 2022. Tuebingen (Special to Informed Comment) […]
Why Keeping Workers Poor Is actually Bad for Business
( Otherwords.org) – CEOs at America’s biggest low-wage employers now take home, on average, 670 times what their typical workers make. But we don’t just […]
Lutheran Church Denounces Killing of Abu Akleh, Calls for end of Israeli Occupation of Palestinian Territories
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Lutheran World Federation Council has called for an end to the Israeli military occupation of the Palestinian Territories (Gaza […]
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