Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Amnesty International concluded this week that the Israeli government is using starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza, and […]
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Scientists: Earth is substantially hotter than at any time during past 12,000 Years; entire Holocene was Cool
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Our human civilization, with agriculture is only about 10,000 years old. It started in the Middle East in the Neolithic. […]
Conservatives worked for Decades to build an Imperial Presidency, and it Gave them Trump and now Biden
By Tom Engelhardt | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – Joe Biden’s got a problem — and so do I. And so, in fact, do we. At […]
City-State or Empire? The United Arab Emirates Seeks dominance in the Horn of Africa
By Usman Butt | – ( Middle East Monitor) – Since the 2011 Arab Spring the United Arab Emirates has been taking an active role […]
“This Is War”: Inside the Secret Chat Where Far-Right Extremists Devised Their Post-Capitol Plans
by Logan Jaffe and Jack Gillum | – ( ProPublica ) – When the FBI arrested Edward “Jake” Lang on Jan. 16 for his alleged […]
Israeli Scientists make Strides toward Recyclable Perovskite Solar Panels
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Solar panels have plummeted 80% in price during the past decade, but they are still relatively expensive and depend on […]
A return to the two-state politics without a historical reckoning spells loss for Palestinians
(Middle East Monitor ) – US President Joe Biden announced the restoring of diplomatic relations with the Palestinian Authority and the resumption of humanitarian aid […]
All Hands on Deck: Biden plans to fight climate change in a way no U.S. president has done before
By Bill Ritter Jr. | – Joe Biden is preparing to deal with climate change in a way no U.S. president has done before – […]
Preventing Future Election Violence: Peacebuilding to avoid becoming a failed state
By Kerri Kennedy | – ( Otherwords.org ) – I have spent my entire career working to end election-related conflicts, mostly overseas. Unfortunately, this experience […]
Israeli Archeologists find 7th Century Mosque and Evidence of Tolerance in Early Islam at Tiberias
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israeli archeologists have made two extremely important finds recently that have implications for our image of early Islam. Katia Cytryn-Silverman, […]
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