Istanbul (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – After nearly five decades of armed conflict with the Turkish state, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has begun […]
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Empire and Blowback: Remembering Chalmers Johnson’s Critique of American Imperialism
( Responsible Statecraft) – It has been nearly ten years since Chalmers Johnson died, and twice that long since the publication of “Blowback: The Costs […]
Real Security: Wasted Pentagon Trillions that We Could have Spent on Health Care and Pandemic Preparedness
It is not like we’ve won any wars since 1945, anyway
Ayatollah Trump Declares “Total Authority:” Top 5 Ways he is Becoming American Version of Iran’s Supreme Leader
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – At the embarrassing public meltdown that passed for his news conference on Monday, Trump addressed the question of opening back […]
Palestinian Youth under Israeli Occupation were already Isolated — Now Social Media is their only Connection to the World
By Eman Abusidu | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Social media plays a vital role in transforming people’s lives. Being on social networks […]
How Saudis and other Authoritarian Middle East Governments are using Covid-19 to Crack down More on Civil Liberties
By Khalid Ibrahim, Gulf Center for Human Rights | – ( Globalvoices.org) – Saudi women’s rights activist Loujain Alhathloul is one of many human rights […]
Killing off the Animals: By Burning Fossil Fuels, we’ll destroy 50% of their Habitat this Century
By Christopher Trisos and Alex Pigot | – The impacts of climate change on species and ecosystems are already evident. Poleward shifts in the geographic […]
If Trump fires Dr. Fauci and installs a Barr-like Toady, what ever will become of us?
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – When Jake Tapper repeatedly pressed Dr. Anthony Fauci on Sunday to say whether earlier social distancing measures, say in February […]
US is Closed for Non-Essential Industries: Shouldn’t Trump’s Wars be Halted, Too?
( Pressenza ) – At least 70 countries have signed on to the March 23 call by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres for a worldwide […]
20% of Americans need Mental Health Care but are Routinely denied it– Medicare for All Should Fix that, Too
Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment) – Universal Medicare for All is a concept that a majority of Americans actually support . Of the 25 […]
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