Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Nadeem Badshah at The Guardian reports that British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is expected to recognize a Palestinian state today, […]
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Top 3 Ways Netanyahu’s New Gov’t in Israel is a Catastrophe Waiting to Happen
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israel’s leaders have finally formed a government, after three elections that left the country in a political quagmire. The new […]
Omar Khayyam Day (5/18) in Lockdown: “My Diamond is your Ecstasy”
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Quatrain of the Day For the earliest collection of verse attributed to Omar Khayyam see my just-published The Rubaiyat of […]
Frankenfuel: The Market is done with Big Oil and Coal, but will they Lumber on with Gov’t Subsidies?
Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – Are the big oil stocks headed for collapse? Citizens as diverse as climate activist and 350.org founder […]
Trump’s Rush to Reopen Economy is a Death Sentence for Some Minority Workers
By Negin Owliaei | – ( Otherwords.org) – Every morning for the last two months, I’ve checked the news in my home state of Florida […]
Coronavirus and the End of American Exceptionalism
( Tomdispatch.com ) – Remember the song “Over There”? “Over there, over there Send the word, send the word over there That the Yanks are […]
Male Face Masks have been the Height of Masculinity for Centuries: Why see Coronavirus Masks as Wimpy?
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A recent study of the way Americans are adapting to the coronavirus found that “Men more than women agree that […]
72 Years of Birthdays for Israel, 72 Years of Catastrophe for Palestinians
( Middle East Monitor ) – Between 1947 and 1949, Zionist militias and the newly-formed Israeli army expelled more than half of the indigenous population […]
Coronavirus Effect: In One Year, Share of Coal in German Public Power Supply Cratered to 16% from 30%
By Freja Eriksen | — ( Clean Energy Wire) – Coal’s share in Germany’s net public power production fell to around 16 percent in April […]
As 27 Million Lose Job-based Health Insurance, Imagine if there were No Obamacare
By Simon F. Haeder | – The loss of 31 million jobs due to coronvirus has an added downside: 27 million have lost job-based health […]
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