Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Turkiye [Turkey] is a European country, since part of its territory lies in Europe. So the following sentence is true: […]
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Can the president really order the military to occupy US cities and states?
By Jennifer Selin | – After a week of both peaceful protests and violent chaos in the wake of George Floyd’s death, President Donald Trump […]
OK, Boomer: The Trump Administration’s Generational Lies Deepen America’s Fissures
( Tomdispatch.com ) – These days, teaching graduating college seniors has me, as the Brits would say in the London Underground, “minding the gap.” In […]
Don’t Hesitate to Raise a wine Glass High: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
For the earliest collection of verse attributed to Omar Khayyam see my just-published The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: A New Translation from the Persian (NB: […]
How American cities were Reduced to Esper’s “Battlespace”: From Fallujah to Minneapolis
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Bush administration’s war of aggression on and military occupation of Iraq that began in 2003 shifted the United States […]
The Authoritarian Logic of Killing Protesters
Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – On October 9th, 2011, Egyptian army vehicles plowed into a Coptic Christian protest outside of the Maspero state television […]
From Mississippi to Minneapolis: Not just Breathing but Breathing Free
Tucson, Az. (Informed Comment) – In the early morning hours of August 28th, 1955, two white men burst into the Mississippi home of Moses Wright […]
Resisting Rotten Leadership: from Mencius to Robert Reich
Ann Arbor (Special to Informed Comment) – Writing in The Guardian this past weekend Robert Reich spoke common sense: Trump’s nonfeasance goes far beyond an […]
The Second Time as Farce: Donald Trump and James Madison and the Defense of the White House
In 1848 a series of popular uprisings broke out in Europe, including in France. They largely failed, and authoritarian, right wing governments reasserted themselves until […]
Riots or Uprising? If this Turmoil were in Iran, Trump would be Cheering on Arsonists and Dreaming of Regime Change
(Middle East Monitor ) – The scenario is all too familiar: the almost casual murder in Minneapolis of an unarmed African American citizen — say […]
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