Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The first recorded world-historical pandemic took place in the Roman Empire and Sasanian Iran, as well as neighboring areas such […]
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Ten years after the Arab Spring, Libya has another chance for peace
By Brian McQuinn | – Ten years ago, the United Nation’s no-fly zone over Libya marked the beginning of the Libyan revolution and the West’s […]
Trump put the US on a War footing Iran: Biden must Reverse that Immediately
By Manon Dark | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus) – The current controversy over Iran’s nuclear program is one of Trump’s lingering foreign policy […]
Germany sees record greenhouse gas emission fall due to pandemic, renewables
By Kerstine Appunn and Julian Wettengel | – ( Clean Energy Wire) – Germany’s greenhouse gas emissions dropped nearly nine percent in 2020 – the […]
Why the Suez Canal, now blocked, is so Important to the Global Economy and World History
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The super-super tanker Ever Given is stuck kitty-corner in the Suez Canal, having apparently run up on a sand bar. […]
Turkey’s Erdogan abruptly pulled out of Convention on Violence against Women; Women aren’t going Quietly
By Devran Gule and Leïla Choukroune | – In a single-paragraph statement issued at around 2am on March 20, Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan pulled […]
How the Big Oil – Dictator Complex Threatens our Planet
( Foreign Policy in Focus) – This March, the leading global consulting firm IHS Markit held its CERAWeek conference, billed as the “world’s premier energy […]
Two Decades on, can Biden End the War on Terror?
( Tomidispatch.com ) – In the first two months of Joe Biden’s presidency, you could feel the country holding its breath. Sheltered in place, hidden […]
It doesn’t have to be this Way: England has 33 gun Homicides per Year (equiv. 182); US has 10,258
Revised We are reeling from back-to-back mass shootings, in Atlanta and Boulder. The main similarities of the two are that the young alleged murderers easily […]
On a Quilt of Oppression and Injustice: From the Vietnam War to the Murder of Asian-American Women
An Thuy Nguyen | – Orono, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – The deadly mass shooting on March 16 targeting Asian American women working at […]
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