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Celebrating our Declaration of Independence from Covid with Poetry of Omar Khayyam
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – President Biden on Thursday expressed the expectation that the vaccination of the US population will have proceeded to the extent […]
Defeating Climate Denialism by showing People how they will Win by Greening Society
By Sarah Sharma and Matthew Hoffmann | – Canada and the United States are suddenly steeped in policy proposals to aggressively cut carbon emissions. In […]
Not Targeted or Bloodless: Why We Need an International Convention on Drones
( Foreign Policy in Focus) – In the aftermath of the recent war between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, drone warfare is being […]
Ten Problems With Biden’s Foreign Policy – and One Solution
( Code Pink ) – The Biden presidency is still in its early days, but it’s not too early to point to areas in the […]
Israel has Detained 13,000 Palestinian Children since 2000 and just took 5 more
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Since the year 2000, the Israeli military in the Occupied Palestinian West Bank has “detained, interrogated, prosecuted, and imprisoned approximately […]
Biden is Reemphasizing Human Rights in Foreign Policy, Except for Palestinians
( Middle East Monitor ) – Israel is reportedly concerned that US President Joe Biden will prioritise human rights over traditional allegiances in the Middle […]
Has the DC Foreign Policy Blob swallowed Joe Biden? We don’t need to be the World’s Policeman
( Tomdispatch.com ) – You may have noticed: the Blob is back. Beneath a veneer of gender and racial diversity, the Biden national security team […]
Why Tunisians are still out on the streets — a decade after the Arab Spring
By Saerom Han, Andrea Teti, and Pamela Abbott | – It has been 10 years since nation-wide protests in Tunisia led to the ousting of […]
At Last, the End of Austerity: Joe Biden’s Really, Really Big Covid Stimulus aims to Jumpstart America
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Joe Biden has redeemed the sins of the Obama administration, which did not enact a big enough stimulus truly to […]