Book Review: Vali Nasr, “Iran’s Grand Strategy: A Political History”, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2025). Munich (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The Islamic Republic […]
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As Biden backslides, a bigger, better-organized climate movement prepares to seize this ‘now or never’ moment
by Nick Engelfried | – ( Waging Nonviolence ) – Over 500 activists from the youth-led Sunrise Movement descended on Washington, D.C. last week for […]
China Cautiously Eyes New Regional Leadership Role As Afghanistan Fighting Intensifies
By Reid Standish | – ( RFE/RL ) – As the security situation in Afghanistan worsens, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has begun a high-profile […]
California is planning floating wind farms offshore to boost its power supply – here’s how they work
By Matthew Lackner | – ( The Conversation ) – Northern California has some of the strongest offshore winds in the U.S., with immense potential […]
South Africa ‘Ungovernable’ after a former President was Jailed; Do Trump and Trumpism pose a similar danger to U.S.?
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – After former South African President Jacob Zuma went to jail over corruption and contempt of court charges last week, his […]
Family Separation Law: Israel’s demographic war on the Palestinians intensifies
( Middle East Monitor ) – When the Israeli Knesset (parliament) failed to renew what is commonly referred to as the Family Reunification Law, news […]
America’s Afghan War Is Over, So What About Iraq – and Iran?
( Code Pink) – At Bagram air-base, Afghan scrap merchants are already picking through the graveyard of U.S. military equipment that was until recently the […]
On the Brink in 2026: U.S.-China Near-War Status Report
( Tomdispatch.com ) – It’s the summer of 2026, five years after the Biden administration identified the People’s Republic of China as the principal threat […]
Palestinians appeal to the UN Security Council over further Israeli Land Theft, Squatter Settlement at Palestinian Beita
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that the government of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has agreed with Israeli squatter organizations […]
Why we need a Debt Jubilee for Renters as the Covid eviction Moratorium expires
Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – What is going to happen when the eviction protections now scheduled to expire at the end of […]
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