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The Heat and the Fury: On the Frontlines of Climate Violence
Review of Peter Schwartzstein, The Heat and the Fury: On the Frontlines of Climate Violence (London: Footnote Press, 2024). Munich, Germany (Special to Informed Comment; […]
How Overpaid CEOs Hurt the Rest of Us
At Wells Fargo, I saw firsthand how excessive CEO pay harms workers and customers. Congress should use tax policy to rein it in. By Kieran […]
Sudan takes UAE to Int’l Court of Justice for Genocide: A Test for Int’l Justice
The case comes amid growing global scrutiny of UAE military alliances, including its deepening ties with Israel despite accusations of genocide in Gaza Written byWalid […]
European CO2 Emissions keep Plummeting, as 47% of Electricity is Green
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The 27 countries of the European Union, with a population of about 450 million, produce 3.9 billion metric tons of […]
Can the Middle East escape Western Media Hegemony and Thomas Friedman?
( Middle East Monitor ) – The website of a certain pan-Arab media organisation seems to be fixated on translating, commenting or briefing its audience […]
Saudi Arabia, Rehabilitated, is Mediator in Ukraine War, and maybe with Iran
By Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, Rice University (The Conversation) – Saudi Arabia is 2,000 miles from Ukraine and even more politically distant, so at first glance […]
Israel’s use of Gender-Based Violence, Sexual Humiliation, and Destruction of Women’s Healthcare in Gaza was Genocidal: UN
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – An independent UN commission has found that “Israel has increasingly employed sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence against […]
The Trump Administration is an Existential Threat to Academic Freedom and Higher Education: Middle East Studies Assn.
Board of Directors, the Middle East Studies Association The second Trump administration has ushered in an existential threat to academic freedom and higher education in […]
Withholding Consent from the Trump Regime
By Nan Levinson ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Not even two months since Inauguration Day and it’s already been quite a trip. Ping-ponging between vindictive pettiness […]
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