Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Harald Ringbauer et al. writing in Nature report on a genetic study of the ancient Phoenicians that is really going […]
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The Coronavirus and Geo-Politics: Trump’s Xenophobia and Weapons of the Weak
Istanbul (Special to Informed Comment) – The coronavirus pandemic is not over yet and anyone hardly knows when and how it will end, but many […]
Trump threatened to pull US Security Umbrella from Saudi if it didn’t raise Oil Prices to Help US Frackers
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On April 2, the Republican Party more or less joined the Organization of Petroleum Exporting States Plus (OPEC+). That is […]
Marriage in the age of the coronavirus: The world is now living the Gaza experience
By Eman Abusidu | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Love is that natural feeling that sweeps through the hearts of every human being. […]
Why are white supremacists protesting to ‘reopen’ the US economy?
By Shannon Reid and Matthew Valasik | – A series of protests, primarily in state capitals, are demanding the end of COVID-19 lockdown restrictions. Among […]
The Assassin-in-Chief Comes Home
( Tomdispatch.com) – “Be assured of one thing: whichever candidate you choose at the polls in November, you aren’t just electing a president of the […]
Poetry of Uplift for our Plague Year: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Juan Cole’s New Translation)
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Today my new translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is out from I.B. Tauris/ Bloomsbury. I hope you all […]
Stop Saying more have died from Coronavirus than in Vietnam: US War Killed a Million There
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The rash of headlines blaring that the coronavirus has now killed more than died in the Vietnam War betrays an […]
Israel’s Annexation of Occupied Palestine would be a War Crime
( Middle East Monitor ) – Israel is about to annex large swathes of the occupied West Bank, making the territory formally part of the […]
Coronavirus Masks reveal Hypocrisy of Islamophobic anti-Veil Laws
By Katherine Bullock | – Grey’s Anatomy, the longest running prime-time medical drama on U.S. television, contains many scenes of doctors and nurses in full […]
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