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Siamese Criminals: Trump and Netanyahu
Donald Trump

Siamese Criminals: Trump and Netanyahu

H. Scott Prosterman

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Convicted felon Donald Trump is now trying to intimidate the Israeli Judiciary into cancelling the three criminal […]

Ibn Battuta, a 14th-century Judge and Ambassador, travelled further than Marco Polo. The Rihla records his Adventures

Ibn Battuta, a 14th-century Judge and Ambassador, travelled further than Marco Polo. The Rihla records his Adventures

07/01/2025 By The Conversation

Cow most Sacred: Why Military Spending remains Untouchable

Cow most Sacred: Why Military Spending remains Untouchable

07/01/2025 By Andrew J. Bacevich

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Covid-19 Demonstrated How This Country Fails Its Most Vulnerable: A Field Guide to Our Threadbare Social Safety Net

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 […]

Rajan Menon

Epidemics
President Biden Honors 500K Dead.  He didn't say so, but they didn't have to Die

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 […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
How the Israeli Occupation has devastated the Palestinian Economy

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, […]

Ibrahim Saleh

Iran
Biden and the Iran nuclear deal: what to expect from the negotiations

Biden and the Iran nuclear deal: what to expect from the negotiations

By Ali Bilgic | – As Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States, speculation was rife that one of […]

The Conversation

Epidemics
President Biden wants More Vaccine Doses Sooner:  Why it is Physically Impossible before Summer

President Biden wants More Vaccine Doses Sooner: Why it is Physically Impossible before Summer

By Isaac Arnsdorf and Ryan Gabrielson | – ( ProPublica ) – President Joe Biden has ordered enough vaccines to immunize every American against COVID-19, […]

ProPublica

Epidemics
Israeli Ministry of Health Study finds Pfizer Vaccine stops 89.4% of Virus transmission, Raising Hopes of Return to Normalcy: Der Spiegel

Israeli Ministry of Health Study finds Pfizer Vaccine stops 89.4% of Virus transmission, Raising Hopes of Return to Normalcy: Der Spiegel

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israel’s national health system, an artefact of its past as a country founded by socialists, has allowed the country of […]

Juan Cole

Feminism
Saudi women’s activist Loujain al-Hathloul released and tweeting

Saudi women’s activist Loujain al-Hathloul released and tweeting

She remains restrained by a travel ban and limits on public appearances

Global Voices

Epidemics
WHO Busts Wuhan Myths: Pandemic started with wild Animal, not Lab, and Wet Market wasn't Ground Zero

WHO Busts Wuhan Myths: Pandemic started with wild Animal, not Lab, and Wet Market wasn’t Ground Zero

By Dominic Dwyer | – As I write, I am in hotel quarantine in Sydney, after returning from Wuhan, China. There, I was the Australian […]

The Conversation

Civil Rights
90 Years of Secular Progress: As Fundamentalism Weakened, I saw America grow Strong and Diverse

90 Years of Secular Progress: As Fundamentalism Weakened, I saw America grow Strong and Diverse

Charleston, WV (Special to Informed Comment) – I’ll be 90 on my next birthday. My long life is sinking, shrinking, slip-sliding away. My wife is […]

James A. Haught

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