Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – When Israel launched an attack on Doha in September 2025, Arab and Muslim leaders convened an emergency summit. […]
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Could the G7 Wealthy Countries Really Boycott Russian Petroleum?
By Amy Myers Jaffe | – One option the U.S. and other nations have for ratcheting up pressure on Russia in response to its invasion […]
What advice would JFK have for President Biden about Putin and Ukraine?
( Tomdispatch.com ) – Dear Mr. President: I send greetings from the other side — and no, I don’t mean the other side of the […]
UN Climate Panel: 50% of Species have fled toward Poles, as Extinctions and Food and Water Shortages Burgeon
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has issued its 2022 report and the scientists have bad news for us. […]
Putin’s “Nazi” pretext for his Brutal Invasion of Ukraine Insults the Memory of Holocaust Victims
“No monument stands over Babi Yar . . .,” so begins a tragic poem by Yevgeny Yevtushenko; “only a step cliff like the rudest headstone […]
Ordinary Russians are already feeling the economic pain of sanctions over Ukraine invasion
By Peter Rutland | – The daily life of ordinary Russians – not just the country’s political elite or super rich oligarchs – is already […]
U of Washington should not have Cancelled Israel Studies over Professor’s Criticism of Israel (MESA)
Committee on Academic Freedom, Middle East Studies Association Letter to the President of the University of Washington Ana Mari Cauce President, University of Washington Dear […]
Americans Shocked to See Ukrainians treated Like Iraqis even though they are White (Not the Onion)
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Some European and American commentators on Russia’s war against Ukraine have covered themselves in shame by implying that because Ukrainians […]
Chekhov’s Pistol: or, Putin’s All-Encompassing Security State
Montreal (Special to Informed Comment) – Anton Chekhov famously advised young playwrights that “If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the […]
Joe Manchin’s America: The Resurgence of the Culture-of-Poverty Debate
( Tomdispatch.com ) – As if killing the Child Tax Credit, blocking voting rights, gutting key climate legislation, and refusing living wages wasn’t enough, West […]
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