London (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – China-US geopolitical rivalries have manifested in many arenas from esoteric ones like export controls over semiconductor chips, to […]
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A People’s Vaccine Against a Mutating Virus and Neoliberal Rule
( Nicolas J. S. Davies) – A recent Yahoo News/YouGov poll found that worries about the COVID pandemic in the United States are at their […]
What the Ottoman Empire can teach us about the consequences of climate change – and how drought can uproot peoples and fuel warfare
By Andrea Duffy | – In the late 16th century, hundreds of bandits on horseback stormed through the countryside of Ottoman Anatolia raiding villages, inciting […]
Capitol Insurrection in Jerusalem? Netanyahu Calls New Government a “Fraud,” calls for Massive Squatter Protests
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Bilal Daher reports at the Israeli newspaper Arab 48 that outgoing prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu addressed the Likud Party bloc […]
Why was there such Resistance to the (correct) theory of Aerosol Transmission of Covid-19?
Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – Droplets or aerosols? This was the issue that gripped pandemic politics for months. The scope of the […]
“Lethal Disregard:” UN report on Deaths of Migrants in Mediterranean goes too Light on Libyan, Italian Navies
Mt. Berry, Ga. (Special to Informed Comment) – The diplomatic language used in official human rights reports often fails to express the horrors that they […]
Our National Security Elite has China on the Brain: Does that really make us Safer?
( Tomdispatch.com ) – Let me start with my friend and the boat. Admittedly, they might not seem to have anything to do with each […]
Israel, ‘Only Mideast Democracy,’ Criminalizes Journalism, arrests Al Jazeera Reporter for Covering E. Jerusalem; What is being Covered Up?
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli police took another step toward criminalizing journalism on Saturday when they arrested al-Jazeera Arabic correspondent Givara al-Budeiri while […]
The human and material cost of Israel’s Heavy Bombardment of Civilian Cities in Gaza
By Ahmad Hwedi and Hani Aldrsani | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Israel’s brutal military offensive against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip […]
Why the Current Historic Drought in the Southwest May be the New Normal
By Alyssa Marksz | – ( Cronkite News) – WASHINGTON – Arizona and other Western states just lived through the driest year in more than […]
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