Oxford (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The reports of the past few days are extremely worrying. The acrimonious and open split between President Donald […]
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The Other Pandemic: We haven’t Even begun to Flatten the Curve on the Climate Crisis
Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment) – We are living with two life-threatening crises: Covid-19 and the climate crisis. They pose a common stark fate […]
How Middle East Governments are using Covid-19 as a Pretext to Crush Human Rights
By Saoussen Ben Cheikh | – (Globalvoices.org) – In response to COVID-19, governments around the world have declared states of emergency, allowing them to take […]
The Great Depression, Coronavirus Style: Crashes, Then and Now
(Tomdispatch.com) – Many economists believe that a recession is already underway. So do millions of Americans struggling with bills and job losses. While the ghosts […]
Top 6 Reasons Authorities are Cracking down Hard on Black Protesters while Treating White Supremacist Reopeners with Kid Gloves
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – My social media feeds have been full of comparisons between the treatment by police of Reopener mobs, some of whom […]
Amid Yemen Coronavirus Outbreak, Aden Buries its dead while Houthis Bury their Heads
( Al-Bab.com) – There used to be about ten burials a day in the cemeteries of Yemen’s second city, Aden, but since Covid-19 arrived the […]
Even the Israeli Right is nervous about Netanyahu’s Plans to Annex 1/3 of Palestinian West Bank–but for all the Wrong Reasons
By Antoine Shalhat | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stressed during the Likud meeting in the Knesset on […]
From Jones’s Kool-Aid to Trump’s Clorox– Can we Finally leave the Death Cults Behind Us?
By Michael Nagler | – ( Waging Nonviolence) – When I compared the president and his followers to Jim Jones and the “Peoples Temple” cult […]
Twitter finally Fact-Checks Trump, but Still Lets him Get Away with Murder (Literally)
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has apparently finally had a crisis of conscience over the sewer of falsehoods spewed by Trump […]
The Turko-Russian War for Oil and Gas in Libya Intensifies
Belgrade (Special to Informed Comment) – Frenemies Russia and Turkey have put their conflict in Syria on hold, but they have intensified their rivalry in […]