Out beyond the ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. –Rumi Like the rest of the world, I […]
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An Atomic Bomb no bigger than a Pencil
By Anne-Ruth Wertheim[1] – It was 24 August 1945. I was ten years old, living with my mother, brother and sister in a Japanese internment […]
Trump’s Cold War China Policy is Isolating the U.S., Not China
( Codepink) – Tensions between the United States and China are rising as the U.S. election nears, with tit-for-tat consulate closures, new U.S. sanctions and […]
A Warning Signal for US? Corruption, Gov’t Gridlock, Pandemic, drive half a Million Lebanese Children into Hunger
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Lebanon, a small country of 4.7 million citizens and another 1.5 million Syrian refugees and 400,000 Palestinian refugees, is facing […]
American Nervous Breakdown: Super-Spreader Trump and His Deranged Cult Infect Us All with their Toxic Lunacy
Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – While the plague rages, the economy crashes, and millions of jobless Americans just lost unemployment benefits, President Trump and […]
The Suburban Vote: Why Trump threatened Detroit, America’s most Segregated City, with Federal Officers
Ann Arbor (Special to Informed Comment) – Donald Trump initially threatened to deploy federal agents in the city to clamp down on protests, though later […]
How the Failures of Great Powers at the Versailles Peace Conference Set the Stage for Today’s anti-racist Uprisings
( The Conversation) – The racism that is now the target of protest across the globe is rooted in the tragic choices of leaders seeking […]
Elon Musk may have been Joking, but the Flaky Theory that Aliens built the Pyramids is Faintly Racist
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Egyptian scientists and archeologists replied in a level-headed but firm way to billionaire Elon Musk’s tweet that aliens built the […]
Political Suicide: GOP Senators holding up Stimulus are Retarding Recovery in Election Year
Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – Be thankful for small favors. When the Covid-19 depression hit like a brick, almost no one advocated […]
“I don’t take Responsibility:” US has the Worst Pandemic Response, but can Trump be held Accountable?
( Tomdispatch.com ) – Whether you consider the appalling death toll or the equally unacceptable rising numbers of Covid-19 cases, the United States has one […]
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