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California Strikes Back: Trump Poked the Golden Bear
Academic Freedom

California Strikes Back: Trump Poked the Golden Bear

H. Scott Prosterman

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – California Governor Gavin Newsom assumed the mantle of national leadership when he announced California’s “Election Rigging Response […]

Now the New Year is Reviving old Desires: FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:4

Now the New Year is Reviving old Desires: FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:4

08/18/2025 By Juan Cole

The West’s Long Struggle Against Genocide Prevention

The West’s Long Struggle Against Genocide Prevention

08/18/2025 By Dan Steinbock

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Climate Crisis
The Southwest once had 4000-year-long Droughts; Could Human-Caused Climate Emergency bring them Back?

The Southwest once had 4000-year-long Droughts; Could Human-Caused Climate Emergency bring them Back?

By Judy Fahys ( InsideClimate News/ Cronkite News Creative Commons. —— Bonus Video added by Informed Comment: The Enigmatic Montezuma Castle and Well in Arizona, […]

Cronkite News Arizona PBS

censorship
Exiled Turkish journalist Can Dündar sentenced to 27.5 years in prison for Reporting on Ankara's aid to Syrian Fundamentalist Rebels

Exiled Turkish journalist Can Dündar sentenced to 27.5 years in prison for Reporting on Ankara’s aid to Syrian Fundamentalist Rebels

( Committee to Protect Journalists) | – The Committee to Protect Journalists condemned a Turkish court’s conviction and sentencing of exiled journalist Can Dündar. On […]

Committee to Protect Journalists

Antisemitism
The term 'Judeo-Christian' has been misused for political ends – a new 'Abrahamic' identity offers an alternative

The term ‘Judeo-Christian’ has been misused for political ends – a new ‘Abrahamic’ identity offers an alternative

By Toby Greene | – Upcoming elections in the Netherlands and Germany in 2021 will test the strength of the radical right, which has a […]

The Conversation

China
How incompetent Boob Trump took down America and launched the Chinese Century

How incompetent Boob Trump took down America and launched the Chinese Century

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The twentieth century was dubbed “the American Century” in 1941 by Time magazine publisher Henry Luce. Luce hoped that Americans […]

Juan Cole

Democratic Party
Biden won 306 to 232; Why 2/3s of Republicans don't believe it

Biden won 306 to 232; Why 2/3s of Republicans don’t believe it

By David M. Mayer | – The electoral votes have confirmed Joe Biden won the 2020 United States presidential election. The presidential electors gave Biden […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
US Government must Ensure Iranians Equitable Access to Covid-19 Vaccines

US Government must Ensure Iranians Equitable Access to Covid-19 Vaccines

( Human Rights Watch) – We, the undersigned human rights and humanitarian organizations, call on all stakeholders to ensure people in Iran have swift, unencumbered, […]

Human Rights Watch

China
With US AWOL on Climate Leadership, are EU Members like Holland Turning to China?

With US AWOL on Climate Leadership, are EU Members like Holland Turning to China?

By Charlotte Nijhuis | – ( China Dialogue ) – Both countries have their work cut out to reach emissions-reduction goals, but China is already […]

China Dialogue

Climate Crisis
Whodunnit?:  Hundreds of Thousands of Birds fell out of the Sky in Southwest  and now we Know Why

Whodunnit?: Hundreds of Thousands of Birds fell out of the Sky in Southwest and now we Know Why

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1963 horror film, The Birds, our avian cousins abruptly and for no apparent reason turned hostile […]

Juan Cole

astronomy and outer space
The U.S. Needs COVID Relief and Renewable Energy, Not a Space Force

The U.S. Needs COVID Relief and Renewable Energy, Not a Space Force

( Foreign Policy in Focus) – When President-elect Joe Biden takes office on January 21, he will be faced with some very expensive problems, from […]

Conn M. Hallinan

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