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Ayatollah Sistani Affirms Religious Freedom to Pope Francis in HIstoric Iraq Meeting
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Ayatollah Sistani Affirms Religious Freedom to Pope Francis in HIstoric Iraq Meeting

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Saturday, Pope Francis met in the holy city of Najaf with Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, the spiritual leader of […]

The Future of Airflight:  German electric air taxi pioneer Volocopter raises $238 mn

The Future of Airflight: German electric air taxi pioneer Volocopter raises $238 mn

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If We Want to Renew Democracy, We Need to Tax the Ultra-Wealthy

If We Want to Renew Democracy, We Need to Tax the Ultra-Wealthy

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Facebook’s news blockade in Australia shows how tech giants are swallowing the web

Facebook’s news blockade in Australia shows how tech giants are swallowing the web

By Jennifer Grygiel | – When Facebook disabled Australians’ access to news articles on its platform, and blocked sharing of articles from Australian news organizations, […]

The Conversation

CIA
Biden’s New Mideast: In Nadir of US-Saudi Relations, release planned of CIA report Accusing Crown prince of Murder

Biden’s New Mideast: In Nadir of US-Saudi Relations, release planned of CIA report Accusing Crown prince of Murder

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Biden administration will release a Central Intelligence Agency report concluding that crown prince Mohammed Bin Salman, 35, of Saudi […]

Juan Cole

censorship
Why Google’s Plans for a Saudi-Based Cloud are So Dangerous: Riyadh may demand Private Customer Data

Why Google’s Plans for a Saudi-Based Cloud are So Dangerous: Riyadh may demand Private Customer Data

By Dahlia Kholaif | – ( Global Voices ) – Tech giant Google plans to establish a new Google Cloud region in Saudi Arabia. Access […]

Global Voices

Donald Trump
The Claudius Presidency

The Claudius Presidency

(Foreign Policy in Focus ) – Caligula was by all accounts a nasty piece of work. During the nearly four years that he ruled over […]

John Feffer

Economy
Texas blackouts show why energy should be a universal right

Texas blackouts show why energy should be a universal right

By Gordon Walker | – An unprecedented cold wave in the US state of Texas recently left several million households without power for days on […]

The Conversation

African-Americans
Is Harvard denying Tenure to Cornel West over his views on Palestine?

Is Harvard denying Tenure to Cornel West over his views on Palestine?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Maximilien Alvarez writing at The Chronicle of Higher Education interviews eminent Black philosopher Cornel West on the latter being denied […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Imagining Palestine: Literature and the Language of Exile

Imagining Palestine: Literature and the Language of Exile

( Middle East Monitor ) – For Palestinians, exile is not simply the physical act of being removed from their homeland and their inability to […]

Ramzy Baroud

Acidification of Oceans
Saving the Planet: Why a net-zero future depends on the ocean’s ability to absorb carbon

Saving the Planet: Why a net-zero future depends on the ocean’s ability to absorb carbon

By Anya M. Waite, Brad deYoung, Chris Milley, and Ian G. Stewart | – Most of us growing up along Canada’s East Coast never worried […]

The Conversation

Epidemics
Covid-19 Demonstrated How This Country Fails Its Most Vulnerable: A Field Guide to Our Threadbare Social Safety Net

Covid-19 Demonstrated How This Country Fails Its Most Vulnerable: A Field Guide to Our Threadbare Social Safety Net

( Tomdispatch.com) – Economic crises shine a spotlight on a society’s inequities and hierarchies, as well as its commitment to support those who are most […]

Rajan Menon

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