Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A new opinion poll by the Sadat Center at the University of Maryland finds a sea change in the American […]
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Black Americans mostly left behind by Progress since Dr. King’s Death
By Sharon Austin | – On Apr. 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, while assisting striking sanitation workers. Back […]
Why MLK would have Launched Nonviolent Disobedience to pass the Freedom to Vote Act
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Everything that the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., struggled for is at risk in today’s America, where one of the […]
How the Vietnam War pushed MLK to embrace global justice, not only civil rights at home
By Anthony Siracusa | – On July 2, 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. stood behind President Lyndon Baines Johnson as the Texan signed into law […]
Why we Really need King’s “Testament of Hope” right about Now
By Dedrick Asante-Muhammad | – ( Otherwords.org ) – 2022 has begun with melancholy, as our country sees the pandemic reach new heights. Meanwhile our […]
Eurasia’s Ring of Fire: The Epic Struggle over the Epicenter of U.S. Global Power
( Tomdispatch.com ) – Throughout 2021, Americans were absorbed in arguments over mask mandates, school closings, and the meaning of the January 6th attack on […]
Tonga’s Volcanic Tsunami floods Capital, foreshadowing effects of Glacier Melt from our CO2
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A massive eruption in an undersea volcano, the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haʻapai, 40 miles north of the South Pacific island of […]
Renewables supplied 46% of net public power in Germany in 2021, 40.9% of Gross
NB: “In 2020, renewable energy sources (including wind, hydroelectric, solar, biomass, and geothermal energy) generated . . . about 21% of all the electricity generated […]
Bin Laden and Trump: Two Bookends to America’s Imperial Decline
By Walden Bello | – The end of 2021 and the beginning of a new year is a convenient time to take stock of the […]
After Afghanistan, US military presence abroad faces domestic and foreign opposition in 2022
By Michael A. Allen, Carla Martinez Machain, and Michael E. Flynn | – In August 2021, the U.S. military withdrew from Afghanistan after fighting a […]
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