Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to position Israel as the modern day Sparta, and to sell […]
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Is Facebook Collaborating with Turkey to Censor Free Expression?
By Jack Gillum | – ( ProPublica) – Facebook’s move to censor social media posts of a Syrian militia group in 2018 at the request […]
Attacks on Asian Americans are Rooted in over a Century of Racist Exclusion
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The spine-chilling attacks on Asian-Americans around the country, in San Francisco, New York, and now most bloodily in Atlanta, are […]
Biden branded Putin a Murderer, but can he get out of Afghanistan without Russian Help?
Belgrade (Special to Informed Comment) – Russia and the United States may be bitter geopolitical rivals, but sometimes, when they have a common interest they […]
The Sports Pages of Death: Life in a Wounded and Wounding Land
( Tomdispatch.com) – Here’s one of the things I now do every morning. I go to the online Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center and check […]
Startling Discovery of New Dead Sea Scrolls sheds light on Jewish Revolts against Imperial Rome
By Gareth Wearne | – On Tuesday news broke of the discovery of fresh fragments of a nearly 2,000-year-old scroll in Israel. The fragments were […]
In honor of St.Patrick at Lough Derg: In search of Tolerance and Kindness
By Hugh Curran | – (Special to Informed Comment) – St.Patrick’s Purgatory at Lough Derg was first written about in the 11th century as one […]
Yemenis face Famine of the Century and Mass Starvation unless President Biden pressures Saudis to Stop Port Blockade
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The head of the UN World Food Program, David Beasley said at a news conference this week covered by al-`Arabi […]
DHS’s Mayorkas brands “Crisis” language about Border as Trumpian, Says Challenge Doesn’t Require Cruel Family Separation
By Ryan Knappenberger | – ( Cronkite News) – WASHINGTON – Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas defended the Biden administration’s immigration policies Wednesday, but conceded […]
Syria needs Long-Term Housing for the Neediest, and the US needs to Stop Blocking it
By Hany Al Banna | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – March 15, 2021, will mark a grim milestone—the 10th anniversary of the beginning […]
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