Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Mahmoud Mujadala at the Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that the spokesman for the Israeli army, Effie Defrin, announced Monday […]
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In Siccing Justice Dept. on Jimmy Kimmel and SNL, Trump Channeled worst Mideast Dictators
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Bassem Youssef was Egypt’s most famous comedian in the 2000s and until 2014. His weekly half-hour satire, “The Program,” skewered […]
‘Putting lipstick on a pig’: New Israeli PM Bennett is More Extreme than Netanyahu, so why is Washington Fawning over New Gov’t?
( Middle East Monitor ) – When former US President Barack Obama used an old cliché to denigrate his political opponent, the late US Senator […]
This tiny minority of Iraqis follows an ancient Gnostic religion – and there’s a chance they could be your neighbors too
By James F. McGrath | – ( The Conversation ) – In March 2021 Pope Francis became the first leader of the Roman Catholic Church […]
When You Lift from the Bottom, Everyone Rises: Have We Entered America’s Third Era of Reconstruction?
( Tomdispatch.com) – West Virginia, a state first established in defiance of slavery, has recently become ground zero in the fight for voting rights. In […]
Iran’s Raisi: Supports renewed Nuclear Deal, Seeks Lifting of US Sanctions, and Restored Saudi Diplomatic Relations
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In his first press conference on Monday, newly elected President Ebrahim Raisi expressed support for the negotiations in Vienna toward […]
Jim Crow was Never Dead, but the Black Church can Lead the Way in Banishing Voter Suppression
By Rev. Susan K. Smith and Rev. Levon C. Manzie | ( Otherwords.org) – We suspected it for years, and now we know it: Jim […]
Iran election: what Ebrahim Raisi’s victory will mean for his country – and the rest of the world
By Arshin Adib-Moghaddam | – When Iranians elect a new leader, the world watches. So the election of Ebrahim Raisi, a hardline right-winger, to replace […]
The Navajo and Hopi are Abandoning Coal, but need help with Clean-Up and Transition to Renewables
By Alyssa Marksz | – ( Cronkite News) – WASHINGTON – Navajo and Hopi witnesses agreed the region needs to move away from its economic […]
Far Right Israeli PM Bennett slams Iran Nuclear Talks for Tehran’s Poor Rights Record (Israel has 200 Nukes and has Killed Thousands of Occupied Palestinians)
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – New extreme-right Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett came out on Sunday to argue that the election of an extreme-right Iranian […]