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 […]
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Top Six Lessons of Beirut and Hiroshima
Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – Did the massive explosion in Beirut, about three quarters of a century after the decimation of Hiroshima […]
Not just the Lungs: How COVID-19 might increase risk of Brain Inflammation and loss of Clear Thinking
By Natalie C. Tronson | – Of all frightening ways that the SARS-COV-2 virus affects the body, one of the more insidious is the effect […]
OK, Boomers: Will the America we die in be unprecedentedly Hot, Racist, Unequal, Sickly and Authoritarian?
( Tomdispatch.com ) – Let me be blunt. This wasn’t the world I imagined for my denouement. Not faintly. Of course, I can’t claim I […]
Beirut: ‘Day of Judgment’ Protesters Occupy Gov’t Buildings, Banking Assn., Forcing New Elections
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab announced snap elections after a huge crowd of thousands gathered in downtown Beirut Saturday, confronting […]
What the huge COVID-19 testing undercount in the US means: We may actually have 30 million Cases
Melissa Hawkins | – Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other institutions recently published a study which estimated that the true […]
Lebanon’s deadly blast: when corruption turned into carnage
By Walid el Houri | – ( OpenDemocracy) – On 4 August 2020, at 6pm the explosion at the Beirut port sent a destructive shockwave […]
What Impact will the Beirut Ammonium Nitrate Explosion have on Israel and Hezbollah?
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Will Trump’s Maximum Pressure on UNSC against Lifting Iran Arms Embargo Backfire Big Time?
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Peter Hutchison at AFP reports that the Trump administration may be set to shoot itself in the foot at the […]
The rise of the Middle Kingdom in the Middle East: Iran, Gulf Oil and China:
By Arhama Siddiqa | – ( Middle East Monitor) – China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) stands as the most prominent example of the pivotal […]
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