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Protesting Georgetown U’s Sanctioning of Prof. Jonathan Brown for Speaking out on Iran War
Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association of North America | – Letter to Georgetown University protesting its statements and actions with regard […]
How Electric Vehicles and Water Heaters are turning Cities into giant Batteries
By Bin Lu, Australian National University and Marnie Shaw, Australian National University (The Conversation) – As the electrification of transport and heating accelerates, many worry […]
Top 10 Signs that Israeli Gov’t is starving People in Gaza
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli military has destroyed most of the cropland in Gaza and won’t let Palestinians fish. There isn’t enough food […]
Israel is exploiting the Vacuum left by southern Syria’s sectarian Clashes and a weak State
By Rob Geist Pinfold, King’s College London (The Conversation) – Several days of bitter sectarian fighting in the south of Syria brought the fledgling government […]
Whose Country is this, Anyway: The Struggle to Survive Trump
The Struggle to Thrive and Not Just Barely Survive in Trump’s America By Liz Theoharis and Noam Sandweiss-Back ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Most days, in […]
As Huckabee and MTG attack Israel over anti-Christian Pogroms, is the Alliance with White Christian Nationalism Fraying?
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israeli squatters on Palestinian land in the militarily occupied West Bank conducted a pogrom against the Christian-majority village of Taybeh, […]
“I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know it When I see It.” – Omer Bartov on Gaza
Democracy Now! . Watch Full Show Guests Omer Bartov Israeli American scholar, professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University. Links “I’m a […]
Lessons from a historic Act of Disarmament in Kurdistan
After decades of armed struggle, the PKK is laying down its weapons and beginning a new nonviolent chapter in the Kurdish independence movement. Matt Meyer […]
Stephen Colbert and I: The Tightening of Right-Wing Censorship
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Paramount Global corporation has fired late night comedian Stephen Colbert even though Colbert dominated his time spot. Paramount owns […]
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