Istanbul (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – After nearly five decades of armed conflict with the Turkish state, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has begun […]
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Was Sabra and Shatila a genocide?
By Donald Wagner | – ( Electronic Intifada) – The US withdrawal from Afghanistan marks the end of the latest in a long list of […]
The Trump Albatross around Joe Biden’s Neck
( Foreign Policy in Focus) – The far right would like to impeach Joe Biden, kick him out of the White House, perhaps even throw […]
Habib Satire and Marvel Superheroes: Using Comedy to Combat Stereotyping of Arabs
By Safiyya Hosein | – As a researcher of Muslim superheroes, I’ve learned about the many ways Islamophobia manifests. Because Islam is racialized in the […]
In Turning Point for US Media, Time Recognizes Palestinians Mohammed and Muna El-Kurd as among 100 “Most Influential”
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In what may be a turning point for American media, Time magazine has chosen twin Palestinian activists from the endangered […]
Israel’s future is apartheid in a ‘solution of the three classes’
By Nasim Ahmed | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Reading the reflections of one of Israel’s most celebrated contemporary public intellectuals on the […]
The Land of the Free, Where So Many of the Brave Are Homeless: Resisting Evictions Amid a Pandemic
( Tomdispatch.com) – Over the past weeks, multiple crises have merged: a crisis of democracy with the most significant attack on voting rights since Reconstruction; […]
Human Activity is Threatening 1/3 of Tree Species with Extinction
By Adrian Newton | One in three of the world’s tree species are at risk of becoming extinct, according to a recent report by the […]
China slams US Sanctions on Taliban, Eyes investments in Afghan Minerals
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Laura Zhou at the South China Morning Post reports that Zhao Lijian, spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, on Wednesday […]
Forty-Two Years in Afghanistan: Can a New US Foreign Policy avoid Hyper-Masculinist Ego?
Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment) – Every member of Congress attended the September 14, 2001 memorial service at the Washington National Cathedral for the […]