Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Nadeem Badshah at The Guardian reports that British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is expected to recognize a Palestinian state today, […]
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Demands for Egypt’s U.S.-backed Egyptian Strongman al-Sisi to Release Activist Alaa Abd El Fattah, detained for 2 Years without Charge
By Ellery Roberts Biddle | – The life of Egyptian blogger and activist Alaa Abd El Fattah is in danger. The 39-year-old was jailed in […]
Who are Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi, Climate Emergency Modelers who won Physics Nobel Prize?
By David Randall | – As a climate scientist myself, I was excited to learn that Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi have been […]
Iraq is seeking 10 Gigawatts of Solar Power; if World had gone Green in ’80s, Would the US have ever invaded Iraq?
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a historic irony, Iraq is turning to solar energy, according to Dania Saadi at SPGlobal. Ali Jawad at the […]
No Apartheid here: Now Even Meretz Party just Meeting Palestinian Pres. Mahmoud Abbas shakes Israeli Coalition
By Adnan Abu Amer | The Israeli political and partisan scene is still experiencing echoes of the meeting that brought together leaders of the left-wing […]
Immigration Cruelty Goes Beyond the Border
By Josue De Luna Navarro | ( Otherwords.org ) – Images of Border Patrol officers on horseback whipping Black migrants shocked many Americans. President Biden […]
China: removing features from country’s biggest mosques the latest move in campaign of Muslim assimilation
By David R. Stroup | In the normally quiet city of Xining, capital of northwest China’s Qinghai province, everyday interactions between the city’s ethnic groups […]
UN Turns back on War Crimes in Saudi-Led War on Yemen, as 16 million March toward Starvation
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Al Jazeera reports that on Thursday the UN Human Rights Council voted 21 to 18 with 7 abstentions against a […]
The Taliban Emirate of ‘No’
( Jordan Times ) – The unclaimed murder last weekend of a journalist and two of his relatives while travelling in a car along a […]
Abdulrazak Gurnah: what you need to know about the Nobel Prize winner for Literature
By Melanie Otto | – Abdulrazak Gurnah has been awarded the 2021 Nobel prize for literature. The Tanzanian novelist, who is based in the UK, […]