Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Why has the Democratic leadership shown such reluctance to take effective legislative action to halt the flow […]
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Lest we Forget: Trump’s and Billionaires’ Covid Profiteering, Debasing Science and Death on the scale of the Civil War
By Nina Burleigh | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – Now that we’re all unmasking and the economy seems set to roar into the 2020s, what will […]
Top Ways Israel’s Netanyahu Torpedoed Mideast Peace and Harmed Israel and America
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A step was taken by his rivals toward unseating long-serving Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Wednesday when opposition parties […]
Some Israeli perspectives on the tragedy of the Middle East
( Richard Drake) – The sickening events lately occurring in the Middle East have shocked and outraged the conscience of the world. The experts who […]
Democracy: On the Precipice?
( Foreign Policy in Focus) – If we extrapolate from the current trend lines, democracy will be gone in a couple decades, melted away like […]
One in three heat deaths since 1991 linked to climate crisis – here’s how else warming affects our health
By Chloe Brimicombe and Hannah Cloke | – Since 1991, 37% of lives lost due to extreme heat globally can be attributed to climate change […]
Was Mark Ruffalo wrong to accuse Israel of Genocide?
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The great actor and great humanitarian Mark Ruffalo apologized on Twitter last week for asserting that Israel was committing “genocide” […]
Israel: Violence, hate speech, discrimination against Palestinian minority must stop – UN expert
( UN Human Rights, Office of the High Commissioner) | GENEVA | – A UN human rights expert condemned attacks on Israel’s Palestinian minority by […]
Climate explained: why is the frozen Arctic heating up faster than other parts of the world?
By Steve Turton | – What is Arctic amplification? Do we know what is causing this phenomenon? What effects is it having, both in the […]
Covid-19, our Public Schools and the Real-Time Lessons of Civic Democracy
By Belle Chesler | ( Tomdispatch.com) – It seems appropriate that the 2020-2021 school year in Portland, Oregon, began amid toxic smoke from the catastrophic […]
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