Book Review: Vali Nasr, “Iran’s Grand Strategy: A Political History”, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2025). Munich (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The Islamic Republic […]
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For first time, China now gets a Trillion Watts of Electricity from Wind-Water-Hydro
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – China reached a milestone this fall, of producing a terawatt of electricity from renewables — wind, water, hydro and a […]
The End of Democracy’s Fourth Wave? The New Authoritarians in the Mideast and Eastern Europe
By Amr Hamzawy | – (Middle East Monitor ) – Governments are described as authoritarian when they do not grant people the right to choose […]
We’re not at War: Why is Congress giving $778 Billion of our Money to the Pentagon?
( Code Pink) – Despite a disagreement over some amendments in the Senate, the United States Congress is poised to pass a $778 billion military […]
Top 6 Ways to Rescue Our Planet
By Phoebe Barnard and William Moomaw | – For some time, the Earth’s natural resources have been depleted faster than they can be replaced. The […]
Nuclear Talks: Iran thumbs nose at US, betting on China as new Superpower
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The recent round of talks in Vienna between Iran and Germany plus the 4 members of the UN Security Council […]
The Donald Also Rises? The Far Right Continues to Build Its International
( Tomdispatch.com) – What alt-right guru Steve Bannon failed to create, German taxpayers have just stepped in to revive: a Nationalist International. Thanks to the […]
The Qur’an and Plato’s Republic: Hellenism and Early Islam (Juan Cole Video Interview)
Interview by Ziryab Jamal of Juan Cole | – “THE QUR’ĀN’S CHAPTER “The Cow” contains a verse (2:138) having to do with believers being dyed […]
How dual loyalties created an ethics problem for Chris Cuomo and CNN
By Jane E Kirtley | – CNN anchor Chris Cuomo conceded in March, 2021 that he could not, ethically, cover the sexual harassment allegations against […]
We do it to Ourselves: 30 Gun Homicides in England in 2020 (167 US Equiv.), vs. 13,620 in US
Revised The murders by a high school student in Oxford, Michigan, who was given a gun by his parents even though he was making death […]
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