Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The first recorded world-historical pandemic took place (541–750 CE) in the Roman Empire and Sasanian Iran, as well as neighboring […]
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The Rubble of Empire: Doctrines of Disaster and Dreams of Security as the Biden Years Begin
( Tomdispatch.com ) – How can you tell when your empire is crumbling? Some signs are actually visible from my own front window here in […]
“The Horror, the Horror.” An epitaph for Trump’s Nazi Presidency
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In Joseph Conrad’s The Heart of Darkness, the imperial commercial agent Kurtz, who has committed horrible atrocities against Black Congolese […]
Can Biden’s $15/ hr Minimum Wage begin restoring Working Class trust?
Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – Watch CNN almost any time lately and one is inundated with scenes of the lethal riots in […]
The Mall was 1/2 empty for Trump’s Inauguration, but the threat of his armed Militias Completely Emptied it for Biden’s
By Ryan Knappenberger | – ( Cronkite News ) – WASHINGTON – Four years ago, President Donald Trump claimed the crowd attending his inauguration was […]
How Trump’s language shifted in the weeks leading up to the Capitol riot: Linguists can Tell
By Roger J. Kreuz and Leah Cathryn Windsor | – On Jan. 6, the world witnessed how language can incite violence. One after another, a […]
Israel is increasingly an Apartheid State: What Martin Luther King Jr. Would have thought of that
Revised Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., whose activism we honor today, took stands far beyond Selma and Montgomery, and […]
Israel must Provide Vaccines to Occupied Palestinians: HRW says Over 4.5 Million in West Bank, Gaza Excluded From Vaccination Push
( Human Rights Watch) – (Jerusalem) – Israeli authorities should provide Covid-19 vaccines to the more than 4.5 million Palestinians in the occupied West Bank […]
Climate Crisis: what would 7.1° F. ( 4°C) of global warming feel like?
By Robert Wilby | – Another year, another climate record broken. Globally, 2020 tied with 2016 as the warmest year ever recorded. This was all […]
MLK Marched nonviolently on DC with the Disadvantaged for the Vote: Trump’s armed militia Flew First Class with Privilege to suppress the vote
By Liz Theoharis | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – 2020 will go down as the deadliest year in American history, significantly due to the devastation delivered […]
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