Book Review: Vali Nasr, “Iran’s Grand Strategy: A Political History”, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2025). Munich (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The Islamic Republic […]
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Tucker Carlson Rises to Defense of Confederates who Killed 360,222 Federal Troops, 100x more than Al-Qaeda
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Tucker Carlson is shedding advertisers the way a rattlesnake sheds his skin. He went full white supremacist some time ago, […]
Once the “Paris of the Middle East,” Lebanon’s Financial and Health Crises are Tearing it Apart
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Lebanon may have survived its bubbles and wars decades ago, but the combination of economic crisis and the coronavirus may […]
What Corporations Fear: Best Recovery from Covid-19 Depression is Universal Income and Federal School Funding
Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – I am betting that before November 2020 Congress will pass and the President will sign another major […]
The Outpouring of Grief over George Floyd’s Death gave America a chance at Rebirth: Will we take it?
( Tomdispatch.com) – They were relegated to the protest equivalent of a ghetto. Their assigned route shunted them to the far fringes of the city. […]
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 […]