Book Review – Osamah F. Khalil, A World of Enemies: America’s Wars at Home and Abroad from Kennedy to Biden. Cambridge (MA) and London: Harvard […]
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Trump’s China Shell Game: Bashes Biden on Beijing but asks Xi for reelection Help
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Trump administration has been running ads against Joe Biden accusing him of being soft on Beijing. And the Biden […]
Washington’s ‘Maximum Pressure’ seeks Regime Change in Iran, but such changes Have usually been disasters for US Interests
Washington, D.C. (Special to Informed Comment) – The United States’ unilateral withdrawal from the unanimous UNSCR 2231—the “Iran nuclear deal” -— along with the enactment […]
No, Racial Justice Protesters aren’t ‘Maoists’; Conservatives just aren’t Comfortable with Black Lives Matter
( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – In their effort to transform their discomfort with the current #BlackLivesMatter protests into a superficially sophisticated critique, right-wing […]
Being convicted of a crime has thousands of consequences besides incarceration – and some last a lifetime
By Cynthia A. Golembeski | – At least 77 million U.S. adults have criminal records, including nearly 7 million currently in prison or jail or […]
“Trump Heights”: Illegal New Israeli Squatter Settlement on Occupied Syrian Golan Approved
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israel’s government has formally greenlighted a new squatter settlement on the Syrian Golan Heights, to be named for US president […]
Bailouts for Weapons Firms, Tent Cities for Vets: Covid Reveals U.S. Military Priorities
Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment) – On May 18, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) launched a Salvation Army-like charity drive asking the public […]
Trump’s Misinformed America is the Highest Stage of Post-Truth
Sacramento, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment) – No American president in memory has pursued his personal and public ambitions largely by willfully misinforming the American […]
Yemen’s health system is collapsing as coronavirus spreads, UN warns
(Al-Bab.com) – Yemen is desperately short of medical supplies, though some are still getting through. Photo:
The Ostrich Policy: Trump ready to Kill Hundreds of Thousands to avoid bad Coronavirus Optics for Election
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump and Pence on Monday were busy trying to spread the Big Lie that the only reason the US coronavirus […]