A revised version of an essay from a long time ago. It didn’t need much revision. Belief: Iran is aggressive and has threatened to attack […]
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Why Irish Novelist Sally Rooney refused to License her Work in Israel: Apartheid treatment of Palestinians
( Middle East Monitor) -The pro-Israel crowd on social media was quick to pounce on award-winning Irish novelist, Sally Rooney, as soon as she declared […]
Climate Change Viewed from the Attic of the World: A Himalayan Journey Toward Hope
By William deBuys | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – Thirteen thousand feet high on the far side of the Himalaya mountains, we have entered the past […]
Why activism needs to be part of any meaningful climate education
By Nick Engelfried | – Last month, crowds of young people and supporters gathered in 1,500 locations around the world for one of the largest […]
“A Certain Hope Died:” How the White nationalist Republican Party used up Colin Powell, then Spit Him Out
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Colin Powell died on Monday, not long after his rival inside the Bush administration, Donald Rumsfeld. Both of them tore […]
Trivializing the Holocaust: Georgia GOP Senatorial Wannabe Herschel Walker Fumbles Backwards, Coached by Trump
Oakland, CA. (Special to Informed Comment) – Maybe Republicans don’t know the historical significance of the swastika. Many don’t know the history of WWII. Thanks […]
Top Trump Fundraiser Boasted of Raising $3 Million to Support Jan. 6 “Save America” Rally
By Joaquin Sapien and Joshua Kaplan | – The Insurrection The Effort to Overturn the Election ( ProPublica) – As much as $3 million may […]
How US-Soviet Cold War Competition led to Fall of the Afghan Left and Collapse of the Country into Fundamentalism
By Luis Edel Abreu Veranes | – From the turbulent 1970s ( Middle East Monitor) – With its geographic centrality on the Asian continent, Afghanistan […]
Will Israel’s Muslim Fundamentalists help Pass Marijuana Bill?
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Jack Khoury and Noa Shpigel report at Haaretz that the Israeli government is advancing a marijuana bill that may gain […]
Saudi-Iranian Rapprochement would bring Stability to Mideast, but would it make America Irrelevant?
By Mohammad Makram Balawi | – ( Middle East Monitor) – Since 1979, when Iranian students stormed the US Embassy in Tehran and held American […]
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