Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Medford, a city of 60,000 people in Massachusetts, voted to pass an historic ordinance to divest from […]
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The Real Trauma at the Border: Hundreds of Trump’s Separated Children Still can’t Find their Families
Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – Media outlets consistently describe flight from Central America and Mexico as a “crisis,” suggesting that migrants’ proximity to our […]
The Saudi Lobby is Coming for You, Small Town America
By Ben Freeman, Brian Steiner and Leila Riazi | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – Princess Reema bint Bandar Al-Saud, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the U.S., was […]
Biden to reverse Trump’s White Supremacist, Sadistic near-ban on Refugees, but US still Lags, Sweden, Germany other OECD Countries
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – About one quarter of one percent (0.25 percent) of the US population consists of refugees — some 838,000. This minuscule […]
The “Real” Apartheid: “There’s no Such Thing as a Palestinian Person”
( Middle East Monitor) – “This is the real apartheid,” Jewish American lawyer Brooke Goldstein tweeted last week. “The fact that Jews can’t enter into […]
People escaping Violence have a Right to Seek Asylum: Stop Calling it a “Border Crisis”
By Rachel Pak | – ( Otherwords.org ) – Over the last several weeks, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has reported a rise in the […]
The Catholic Reconquista in Spain outlawed Islam in 1502, but Secret Muslims kept their culture — and Cuisine — Going
By Aleks Pluskowski, Guillermo García-Contreras Ruiz, and Marcos García García | – Granada, in southern Spain’s Andalusia region, was the final remnant of Islamic Iberia […]
New Wind and Solar up 50% globally in 2020, as China beats US by over 4 to 1
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The new report on 2020 by the International Renewable Energy Agency reveals that the world’s renewable energy generation capacity increased […]
Are mass shootings an American epidemic?
By Lacey Wallace | – The U.S. has suffered yet another mass shooting, with a deadly attack in a FedEx facility in Indianapolis. This was […]
How Persistent Student Organizing Forced the University of Michigan to Divest from Fossil Fuels
By Jonathan Morris | – ( Waging Nonviolence ) – Last month, the University of Michigan became the latest to accept the obvious — that […]
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