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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Confronting Total Collapse in Israeli-Occupied Gaza: Division and COVID-19
By Ali Abdel-Wahab | – ( Al-Shabaka ) – Gaza has always been unique among the different parts of Palestine. Its current particularity stems from […]
Equal Opportunity Hate: The Angry White women of the Capitol Far Right
By Jakana Thomas | – The terror inflicted on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 laid bare America’s problem with violent extremism. The FBI and […]
How Bush’s Wars led to Trump’s Insurrection: From Occupying Iraq to Occupying the Capitol
By Andrea Mazzarino | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – “I got out of the Marines and within a few years, 15 of my buddies had killed […]
Why is False News about Iran All Right? No, Khamenei didn’t Threaten Trump on Golf Course, and no, his Twitter account wasn’t Banned
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – No, Ayatollah Ali Khameni’s twitter account did not carry an image of Donald Trump being droned on a golf course, […]
The Other Capitol Mob: How the Billionaires funded the Insurrection
Much to the embarrassment of major corporations, their political donations were traced to the mayhem of January 6. ( Otherwords.org ) – You can’t poke […]
Israel and Palestine: Apartheid or Settler Colonialism
( Middle East Monitor) – When I first began my journey into the Palestine solidarity movement two decades ago, there was much debate about whether […]
Did America really Duck the Dark Night of Fascism? The delusion of normalcy that haunts the United States
By Liam Kennedy | – The election of Joe Biden as the 46th president of the United States was received across much of the world […]
Biden’s own Moderates and Hardliners Battle it Out on reviving Iran Nuclear Deal
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Two and a half days into the Biden administration, it is already clear that the Problem of Iran is going […]
Maybe now the U.S. should stop talking down to the World about “Democracy Promotion”
Because of the events of the last weeks, months and years, should “democracy promotion” be permanently removed from the U.S. foreign policy lexicon? ( Foreign […]