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Siamese Criminals: Trump and Netanyahu
Donald Trump

Siamese Criminals: Trump and Netanyahu

H. Scott Prosterman

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Convicted felon Donald Trump is now trying to intimidate the Israeli Judiciary into cancelling the three criminal […]

Ibn Battuta, a 14th-century Judge and Ambassador, travelled further than Marco Polo. The Rihla records his Adventures

Ibn Battuta, a 14th-century Judge and Ambassador, travelled further than Marco Polo. The Rihla records his Adventures

07/01/2025 By The Conversation

Cow most Sacred: Why Military Spending remains Untouchable

Cow most Sacred: Why Military Spending remains Untouchable

07/01/2025 By Andrew J. Bacevich

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Bashar al-Assad
2 reasons – and 1 disease – that make peace in Syria so difficult

2 reasons – and 1 disease – that make peace in Syria so difficult

By Ora Szekely | – Despite many attempts at negotiations, the Syrian war – a conflict with a complicated and constantly changing cast of characters […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
Iran Covid-19 Deaths Rival US as Trump Blockade blocks Medical Supplies; and Europe Defies Washington

Iran Covid-19 Deaths Rival US as Trump Blockade blocks Medical Supplies; and Europe Defies Washington

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The European Union has activated the Instex trading mechanism for the purpose of sending medicine and medical supplies to Iran […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Climate Crisis will also be Killing 250K / year Soon, and Needs same Planetary Swift Action as Covid-19

Climate Crisis will also be Killing 250K / year Soon, and Needs same Planetary Swift Action as Covid-19

By Eric Galbraith and Ross Otto | – In the past few weeks, governments around the world have enacted dramatic measures to mitigate the threat […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
How we gave up our Health, Environment and Diplomacy for Wars, Walls and Plutocracy

How we gave up our Health, Environment and Diplomacy for Wars, Walls and Plutocracy

Greenfield, MA (Special to Informed Comment) -Budgets are moral documents (or immoral, depending on priorities). So also is tax policy. Consider Trump’s proposed $1.3 trillion […]

H. Patricia Hynes

Epidemics
The Future May be Female, but the Pandemic is Patriarchal

The Future May be Female, but the Pandemic is Patriarchal

( Tomdispatch.com) – Before I found myself “sheltering in place,” this article was to be about women’s actions around the world to mark March 8th, […]

Rebecca Gordon

African-Americans
Trump admits that Easy Voting would Defeat Republicans. That's because they've made Their Base White and Evangelical

Trump admits that Easy Voting would Defeat Republicans. That’s because they’ve made Their Base White and Evangelical

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Colin Kalmbacher at Law&Crime surveys reactions to Trump’s admission in an interview on Fox News that a mail-in ballot program […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
The Israel Gov't is taking advantage of Pandemic to Heighten Military Dictatorship over Palestinians

The Israel Gov’t is taking advantage of Pandemic to Heighten Military Dictatorship over Palestinians

The populations of many countries the world over are right now living under unprecedented quarantine measures and restrictions on movement. The threat of the rapidly […]

Asa Winstanley

Employment
Pandemic will cause another Housing Crisis, and Without Strong Long-Term Gov't Policy it Will hit Workers Hardest

Pandemic will cause another Housing Crisis, and Without Strong Long-Term Gov’t Policy it Will hit Workers Hardest

By Roshanak Mehdipanah and Gregory Sallabank | – Millions of Americans are suddenly out of work as the financial and economic crisis sparked by the […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
How My Dad, Born just before the Spanish Flu, Predicted the Decline of America

How My Dad, Born just before the Spanish Flu, Predicted the Decline of America

( Tomdispatch.com) – My dad was born in 1917. Somehow, he survived the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918-1919, but an outbreak of whooping cough in […]

William J. Astore

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