Oxford (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The dam has burst. Netanyahu and his far-right regime have gone too far. Public pressure on politicians in […]
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The Pandemic and Oil
Foreign Policy in Focus) – With oil prices down and wealthy countries bungling COVID-19, the pandemic has exposed the weaknesses that wealth papers over. During […]
How do Democrats and Republicans Differ on Palestine and Israel?
( Middle East Monitor ) -The polarized nature of American politics often makes it difficult to address fundamental differences between the country’s two main political […]
Demons of the deep state: how evangelicals and conspiracy theories combine in Trump’s America
By S Jonathon O’Donnell | – Are demons active forces in American life and politics? That is what a large number of evangelicals in the […]
Abraham Accords: The War Pact Among Jim Crow States of the Middle East
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Middle Eastern parties to the “Abraham Accords,” Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, and Israel, did not make peace by […]
The ‘Desaparecidos’ of Palestine: Israel Escalates War on the Dead
( Middle East Monitor) – On September 2, the Israeli government approved a proposal that allows the military to indefinitely withhold the bodies of Palestinians […]
For anyone wavering about Voting: The US presidential election might be closer than the polls suggest
By Simon Jackman | – With less than two months until the US presidential election, Democratic nominee Joe Biden leads incumbent Donald Trump in the […]
Isolation and Opioids During the Pandemic
By Mattea Kramer | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – In our new era of nearly unparalleled upheaval, as a pandemic ravages the bodies of some and […]
Arctic Heat Wave: Block of Ice Twice as Big as Manhattan breaks off Greenland’s largest Ice Shelf, goes into Ocean
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A 42 square mile block of ice has just hived off from the Arctic’s largest ice shelf, in northeast Greenland, […]
Yemen: Aid Obstruction Puts Millions of Children and Adults at Risk
(Human Rights Watch) – The Houthi armed group and other authorities are severely restricting the delivery of desperately needed aid in Yemen, Human Rights Watch […]