Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The first recorded world-historical pandemic took place (541–750 CE) in the Roman Empire and Sasanian Iran, as well as neighboring […]
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2021: a grim year for Free Speech as hundreds of Journalists are arrested in an increasingly authoritarian World
By Dina Matar | – Hundreds of journalists killed or arrested, rising numbers of female media workers targeted, floods of misinformation and hate speech and […]
Why our Democracy is Ailing: Another Grim winter for our Unmasked, Unvaccinated, Disputatious, Confrontational, Conspiratorial, and disturbed Country
( Tomdispatch.com) – Whether the pandemic that’s swept the world started from a bat or not, as 2021 ends, I think it’s safe to say […]
Israeli Archeologists find Christian Ring with Image of Christ as Shepherd in Shipwreck from era of Constantine
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A marine unit of the Israel Antiquities Authority diving off the ruins of the ancient city of Caesarea Maritima has […]
American Colonialism Left Iraq in Environmental Crisis, Polluted, Corrupt and Crime-Ridden
By Haifa Zangana | – (Middle East Monitor ) – The devastation caused by man to the environment is no longer a secret; nature is […]
Antarctica’s ‘doomsday’ Glacier: how its Collapse could trigger global Floods and swallow Islands
By Ella Gilbert | – The massive Thwaites glacier in West Antarctica contains enough ice to raise global sea levels by 65cm if it were […]
Congress Keeps Spending Nearly 1/4 of our Budget on the Pentagon, but it Hasn’t won any Wars for Decades
( Tomdispatch.com ) – Professional sports is a cutthroat business. Succeed and the people running the show reap rich rewards. Fail to meet expectations and […]
Without Biden’s Vaccination Program, a Million and a Half Americans would have died in 2021 and 12 mn would have been Hospitalized
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – President Biden made a major pandemic policy speech on Tuesday, pleading with Americans to get vaccinated, and, indeed, to get […]
90% of California’s Precious Joshua Trees are in Danger from the Climate Emergency
By Jude Binkley | – ( Cronkite News) – JOSHUA TREE, Calif. – More than a decade ago, Brendan Cummings was living in this desert […]
Newly released Records Document Zionist Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians from Palestine in 1948
( Middle East Monitor) – An investigative report in Haaretz — “Classified Docs Reveal Massacres of Palestinians in ’48 – and What Israeli Leaders Knew” […]
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