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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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China
The Real Danger behind Trump's "China Virus" Mantra

The Real Danger behind Trump’s “China Virus” Mantra

Ann Arbor (Special to Informed Comment) – The “China-Virus” mantra illustrates well this administration’s habit of responding to challenges by branding people as ethnic, religious, […]

Martin Powers

Feminism
Presence-as-Resistance: Iranian Women and the Politics of Social Contestation

Presence-as-Resistance: Iranian Women and the Politics of Social Contestation

The history of everyday public resistance on the part of women’s movements in Iran

Navid Pourmokhtari

Donald Trump
Trump bashed Immigrants, but Nearly 1/3 of US Doctors are Foreign-Born, on Pandemic Front Lines

Trump bashed Immigrants, but Nearly 1/3 of US Doctors are Foreign-Born, on Pandemic Front Lines

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – It turns out we need those foreigners after all, despite what Trump thinks. On Sunday British investigative journalist Iain Overton […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Maybe that Imperial Presidency Idea wasn't so Great: The Coronavirus Reveals that America Long Since Fell Apart

Maybe that Imperial Presidency Idea wasn’t so Great: The Coronavirus Reveals that America Long Since Fell Apart

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – If you were asked three months ago, when news of the novel Coronavirus we now call Covid-19 was just […]

David Faris

Epidemics
Coronavirus: Corporate Media ignores how Privatization of Hospitals explains Lack of Beds, Ventilators

Coronavirus: Corporate Media ignores how Privatization of Hospitals explains Lack of Beds, Ventilators

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – The escalating total Covid 19 deaths in New York City and the frantic quest to obtain life […]

John Buell

War
Yemen still on the brink following coronavirus risks and fragile ceasefire

Yemen still on the brink following coronavirus risks and fragile ceasefire

London (Special to Informed Comment) – As Yemen’s catastrophic war enters its sixth year, the Saudi-led coalition offered a desperately needed ceasefire on Friday, which […]

Jonathan Fenton-Harvey

Climate Crisis
Wind Power surges by 20 Percent!  Why Gov't Should Put Stimulus Money into it to Help Economy and the Earth

Wind Power surges by 20 Percent! Why Gov’t Should Put Stimulus Money into it to Help Economy and the Earth

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Wind power is growing by leaps and bounds, with new installations up 20 percent in 2019. A whole 60 gigawatts […]

Juan Cole

Epidemics
Italy Coronavirus Deaths Pass 10,000: How Austerity and Anti-Immigrant Politics Created Europe's Worst Crisis

Italy Coronavirus Deaths Pass 10,000: How Austerity and Anti-Immigrant Politics Created Europe’s Worst Crisis

( Foreign Policy in Focus) As the viral blitzkrieg rolls across one European border after another, it seems to have a particular enmity for Italy. […]

Conn M. Hallinan

Saudi Arabia
Yemen: Saudi Forces Torture, ‘Disappear’ Yemenis

Yemen: Saudi Forces Torture, ‘Disappear’ Yemenis

At Least 5 Detainees from al-Mahrah Illegally Transferred to Saudi Arabia

Human Rights Watch

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