Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Electric vehicles are expected to make up some 25% of cars sold globally in 2025, according to the International Energy […]
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Targeting Muslims, India is Abolishing Birthright Citizenship
By Rahul Sambaraju and Suryapratim Roy | – The fallout from two controversial changes to citizenship laws continues to rock India. At least 35 people […]
Turkey mobilizes for war with Syria and Russia as Nearly 3 Dozen Turkish Troops Killed
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Al Jazeera reports that nearly three dozen Turkish soldiers in a barracks in Syria were killed Friday by an air […]
Iran: No Justice for Bloody Crackdown (HRW)
Unlawful Lethal Force, Families Threatened, Cover-Ups
How Cold War US Corporations Smeared Democratic Socialism
By Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy | – Bernie Sanders has emerged as the Democratic front-runner in the race for the presidential nomination. Yet even some left-leaning pundits […]
How Democracy Ends: Not With a Bang But With a Whimper
By Karen J. Greenberg | – (Tomdispatch.com) – In this fast-paced century, rife with technological innovation, we’ve grown accustomed to the impermanence of things. Whatever […]
Anti-Science and Opportunistic: Trump and Iran’s Ayatollahs both Play down Coronavirus
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Christine Romans at CNN wonders if Trump’s news conference on Wednesday evening on the Covid-19 coronavirus was his “Mission Accomplished” […]
Bernie Sanders and the Poor Little Rich Boys: Why Billionaire Financiers are Bullying the Democratic Party
Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – Quiet concerns about a possible Sanders victory became a loud and agitated freakout after the Senator’s resounding […]
Can Iran Afford its Syrian Intervention in face of Failing Economy, Coronavirus?
By Tony Walker | – Iran’s emergence as a hot zone for the coronavirus further complicates that country’s relationships with its neighbours at a time […]
On Hanging from the Blades of an Israeli Bulldozer: Al-Naem is Every Palestinian
( Middle East Monitor ) – How is one to apply rational political analysis to what is inherently irrational? What kind of political theory must […]