Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; feature) – The world’s most poorly kept secret is that Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu (Bibi) is escalating his state-sponsored […]
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Why Google’s Plans for a Saudi-Based Cloud are So Dangerous: Riyadh may demand Private Customer Data
By Dahlia Kholaif | – ( Global Voices ) – Tech giant Google plans to establish a new Google Cloud region in Saudi Arabia. Access […]
The Claudius Presidency
(Foreign Policy in Focus ) – Caligula was by all accounts a nasty piece of work. During the nearly four years that he ruled over […]
Texas blackouts show why energy should be a universal right
By Gordon Walker | – An unprecedented cold wave in the US state of Texas recently left several million households without power for days on […]
Is Harvard denying Tenure to Cornel West over his views on Palestine?
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Maximilien Alvarez writing at The Chronicle of Higher Education interviews eminent Black philosopher Cornel West on the latter being denied […]
Imagining Palestine: Literature and the Language of Exile
( Middle East Monitor ) – For Palestinians, exile is not simply the physical act of being removed from their homeland and their inability to […]
Saving the Planet: Why a net-zero future depends on the ocean’s ability to absorb carbon
By Anya M. Waite, Brad deYoung, Chris Milley, and Ian G. Stewart | – Most of us growing up along Canada’s East Coast never worried […]
Covid-19 Demonstrated How This Country Fails Its Most Vulnerable: A Field Guide to Our Threadbare Social Safety Net
( Tomdispatch.com) – Economic crises shine a spotlight on a society’s inequities and hierarchies, as well as its commitment to support those who are most […]
President Biden Honors 500K Dead. He didn’t say so, but they didn’t have to Die
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – President Biden on Monday honored the deaths of 500,000 Americans from COVID-19. It is a very large number, and commentator […]
How the Israeli Occupation has devastated the Palestinian Economy
( Al-Shabakah) – The Israeli occupation has crippled Palestinian productive sectors, leading to the dominance of internal trade in the Palestinian economy. Al-Shabaka policy analyst, […]