Chinese technology firms are increasingly competing with US ones in major Middle Eastern markets, escalating technology-related US national security concerns. London (Special to Informed Comment; […]
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All the Lies Trump told the West Point Graduates about American Militarism
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – It was bad enough that Trump endangered the health of the graduating class at West Point for the purposes of […]
Information warfare: COVID-19’s other battleground in the Middle East
By Saoussen Ben Cheikh | – ( Globalvoices.org) – COVID-19 has exacerbated existing political tensions in the Middle East and North Africa, a region already […]
America’s Wars always Come Home
( Foreign Policy in Focus) – It was entirely fitting that Senator Tom Cotton would be the one to say the quiet part out loud […]
Trump’s Infatuation with the Insurrection Act Recalls Worst Political Divide in US HIstory
The Vice President rebelled and sought to be Emperor of the West
Another Screw-Up: Iraq announces Gradual US Troop Withdrawal, in Aftermath of Trump’s Strike on Local Generals
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Thursday, the new Iraqi government of Mustafa al-Kadhimi concluded its first security review with its US partner, according to […]
How the Coronavirus could be a Climate Game Changer if it shifts 30% of Jobs Online
By Sören Amelang | – ( Clean Energy Wire) – The coronavirus pandemic has boosted digitalisation because it forced many people to do without business […]
Drones and Protesters: How High-Tech Surveillance Amplifies Police Bias and Overreach
By Andrew Guthrie Ferguson | – Video of police in riot gear clashing with unarmed protesters in the wake of the killing of George Floyd […]
On How those Army Bases were Named for Confederate Generals to Shore up Jim Crow Segregation
By Troy E. Mosley | – (Citizens against Intolerance) – Some 160 years ago, a swath of Americans intent on defending a lifestyle of profiting […]
In Major Blow to Far Right Netanyahu Gov’t, Int’l Court of Human Rights Upholds right to Boycott Israel
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Far Right Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s plan to steal 1/3 of the Palestinian West Bank is likely unstoppable, but […]