Belfast (Special to Informed Comment; feature) – As a native Palestinian, visiting my homeland is not just about seeing family and friends. It’s also about […]
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Election 2020 sees record $11 billion in campaign spending, mostly from a handful of super-rich donors
By Richard Briffault | – Total spending in the 2020 federal elections is projected to set a new record of almost US$11 billion by November. […]
Trump’s Art of the Arms Deal: Filling up the Volatile Middle East with High-Tech Weapons
( Tomdispatch.com) – The United States has the dubious distinction of being the world’s leading arms dealer. It dominates the global trade in a historic […]
Saudis now Boycott, Oppose Turkey, but once Sought its Security Umbrella: Clinton Files
By Daud Abdullah | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – This is one of the uncomfortable questions raised by the newly declassified Clinton files. […]
Stunning Doubling of Severe Natural disasters in past 20 Years, many driven by Climate Emergency
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction issued a report today concluding that natural disasters caused by the human […]
Plot to kidnap Michigan’s governor grew from the militia movement’s toxic mix of constitutional falsehoods and half-truths
By John E. Finn | – The U.S. militia movement has long been steeped in a peculiar – and unquestionably mistaken – interpretation of the […]
Can Trump’s Plan to Steal your Social Security, Medicare be Stopped?
Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment) – President Donald Trump, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Republicans promoting the backlash against the federal government […]
Republican Food: French President Macron nails his colours to the Mast of Islamophobia
By Chris Myant ( OpenDemocracy.net) – In the small Provençal town of Aups, where the local Catholic church declares République française: Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité [The […]
Call for Fox Media News Monopoly to be Broken up: Rupert Murdoch an “arrogant cancer on … democracy” – Rudd
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd has called for the break up of his country’s media monopolies (almost all major […]
Ask Amy Coney Barrett If Bosses Should Be Free to Fire Workers at Will
Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – What is at stake in the battle over the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett? For most commentators […]
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