Chinese technology firms are increasingly competing with US ones in major Middle Eastern markets, escalating technology-related US national security concerns. London (Special to Informed Comment; […]
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Knowledge of the Holocaust wanes for Millennials, Gen Z, Even as Anti-Semitism Rises
By Jonmaesha Beltran | – (Cronkite News) – PHOENIX – Seventy-five years after the atrocities of Auschwitz, memories of the Holocaust are fading for younger […]
Not Giving up on Happiness: Care of the Self and Well-Being in a Plague Year
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The specter of plague haunts our world, and it brings with it not only the ghouls of disease and death […]
The Dem Primary is Over, and we need Bernie Sanders to lead on Health Care from the Senate
Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – On Tuesday, I cast a joyless vote for the very much politically doomed Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in the […]
Trumpandemic: Trump Spreads the Germs of Racial Hatred and Xenophobia
Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – President Donald Trump has systematically focused on a xenophobic rebranding of COVID-19 as a “Chinese virus” to help cover […]
Blues in the time of Pandemic, 1919 — “In a few days influenza would be controlled”
Middlebury, Vt. (Special to Informed Comment) – The great influenza pandemic of 1918-19 , which raged in the aftermath of the 1914-18 World War, killed […]
Trump Admin. in “Historic” withdrawal of Troops from 3 Iraq Bases amid Ongoing Rocket Attacks
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – AFP is reporting that the US military is withdrawing US troops from 3 Iraqi bases. They are al-Qa’im in the […]
That time America used to have Draconian Censorship of Just the sort Trump Dreams of
By Adam Hochschild | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Every month, it seems, brings a new act in the Trump administration’s war on the media. […]
Why the ‘herd immunity’ route to fighting coronavirus is unethical and potentially dangerous
By Arindam Basu | – As most of the world tries to suppress the coronavirus spread, some countries are going it alone – trying to […]
Is Covid-19 Iraq’s Next Desert Storm? The American-Built State was already a Violent Shambles with Little Healthcare
Detroit (Special to Informed Comment) – Iraq has endured decades of destabilizing political and military turbulence that has threatened its survivability as a nation-state. Its […]
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