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California Strikes Back: Trump Poked the Golden Bear
Academic Freedom

California Strikes Back: Trump Poked the Golden Bear

H. Scott Prosterman

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – California Governor Gavin Newsom assumed the mantle of national leadership when he announced California’s “Election Rigging Response […]

Now the New Year is Reviving old Desires: FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:4

Now the New Year is Reviving old Desires: FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:4

08/18/2025 By Juan Cole

The West’s Long Struggle Against Genocide Prevention

The West’s Long Struggle Against Genocide Prevention

08/18/2025 By Dan Steinbock

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Donald Trump
The Ostrich Policy: Trump ready to Kill Hundreds of Thousands to avoid bad Coronavirus Optics for Election

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 […]

Juan Cole

Syria
Humanitarian Catastrophe: Syria was Born amid Plague and Imperial Violence, and has come Full Circle

Humanitarian Catastrophe: Syria was Born amid Plague and Imperial Violence, and has come Full Circle

Detroit (Special to Informed Comment) – Since its creation in 1920 during the Sam Remo Conference, led by the victors of WWI, the nation-state of […]

Tareq A. Ramadan

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Press Carrying Fake News to Promote Netanyahu's Annexation Plan for Palestine

Israeli Press Carrying Fake News to Promote Netanyahu’s Annexation Plan for Palestine

By Motasem A Dalloul | @abujomaaGaza | – ( Middle East Monitor )- On Saturday, it was revealed that Israeli media are reporting fake news […]

Middle East Monitor

African-Americans
Seattle's BLM Autonomous Protest Zone and the Paris Commune of 1871: Anti-Capitalist Spirit still Lives

Seattle’s BLM Autonomous Protest Zone and the Paris Commune of 1871: Anti-Capitalist Spirit still Lives

Oli Mould | – A new autonomous zone set up in Seattle by the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement bears some striking similarities with the […]

The Conversation

African-Americans
Tucker Carlson Rises to Defense of Confederates who Killed 360,222 Federal Troops, 100x more than Al-Qaeda

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, […]

Juan Cole

Banking
Once the "Paris of the Middle East," Lebanon's Financial and Health Crises are Tearing it Apart

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 […]

Jamal Dillman-Hasso

Democratic Socialism
What Corporations Fear: Best Recovery from Covid-19 Depression is Universal Income and Federal School Funding

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 […]

John Buell

Pentagon
The Outpouring of Grief over George Floyd's Death gave America a chance at Rebirth: Will we take it?

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. […]

Nick Turse

Colonialism
All the Lies Trump told the West Point Graduates about American Militarism

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 […]

Juan Cole

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