This essay was first published in January 2017. It seems even more prescient 8 and a half years later. At that time I could not […]
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Israeli Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinian East Jerusalem is a Spark in a Tinderbox: What I Saw There
Belfast (Special to Informed Comment) – The latest escalation in violence in the Middle East was sparked by the Israeli government plan to ethnically cleanse […]
What Is Joe Biden’s Israel Policy, Exactly?
( Foreign Policy in Focus) – So just what is the Biden administration’s policy towards Israel? Why did Biden take so long to respond to […]
Int’l Energy Agency: We must Ban new Fossil Fuels Now to avoid Overheating our Earth
By Volker Roeben | – Established in the wake of the 1973 oil crisis, the International Energy Agency (IEA) was created to maintain the stability […]
Israel’s Pyrrhic Victory: It Razed some buildings, but Reinforced Palestinian National Identity
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israel and Hamas agreed on an unconditional ceasefire to begin at 2 am on Friday morning, which both sides put […]
The Issue isn’t Self-Defense, it is Occupation and Statelessness: Juan Cole interviewed by Steve Clemons, “The Bottom Line”
“While unquestioning support for Israel is still the name of the game in Washington, DC, a growing number of Democrats are demanding political rights for […]
Did Gaza change the world’s perspective on Palestine-Israel?
By Mamoun Fandy | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – In what looks to be a brave new world, even as its features are […]
Antarctica is headed for a climate tipping point by 2060, with catastrophic melting if carbon emissions aren’t cut quickly
By Julie Brigham-Grette and Andrea Dutton | – While U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken draws attention to climate change in the Arctic at meetings […]
The Good News with Green Energy is the end of Struggles for Oil; the Bad news? Struggle for Lithium
(Tomdispatch.com ) – Thanks to its very name — renewable energy — we can picture a time in the not-too-distant future when our need for […]
With 58K Palestinians Made Homeless in Gaza, AOC and the Squad Resolve to Block Precision Bombs for Israel
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The United Nations says that 58,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been made internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the past week […]
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