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Stephen Colbert and I:  The Tightening of Right-Wing Censorship
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Stephen Colbert and I: The Tightening of Right-Wing Censorship

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Paramount Global corporation has fired late night comedian Stephen Colbert even though Colbert dominated his time spot. Paramount owns […]

Turkey becomes the First to Censor Musk’s AI Chatbot Grok

Turkey becomes the First to Censor Musk’s AI Chatbot Grok

07/19/2025 By Arzu Geybullayeva

Green Energy and protecting Nature get the Thumbs up in Climate Change study in 68 Countries

Green Energy and protecting Nature get the Thumbs up in Climate Change study in 68 Countries

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A Civil Rights Issue: Less than 1% of Americans Provide most Money for Political Campaigns

A Civil Rights Issue: Less than 1% of Americans Provide most Money for Political Campaigns

By By Chiraag Bains | – ( Otherwords.org) – Less than 1 percent of the population provides most of America’s campaign funds. It looks nothing […]

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No Mercy even in a Pandemic: Israeli Occupation Authorities Demolish Makeshift Field Hospital in Palestinian Hamlet

No Mercy even in a Pandemic: Israeli Occupation Authorities Demolish Makeshift Field Hospital in Palestinian Hamlet

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Demonstrating that the technologies of settler colonialism never take a break, Israeli Occupation forces have demolished an emergency clinic set […]

Juan Cole

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Why have America and Saudi Arabia Bonded for Decades?  Can you Say ‘Oil,’ Children?

Why have America and Saudi Arabia Bonded for Decades? Can you Say ‘Oil,’ Children?

By Essam Abdul Shafi | – ( Middle East Monitor) – With its inherent connection to the religion of Islam as the Custodians of the […]

Middle East Monitor

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Coronavirus Solidarity: A 13th Century Mystical Persian Poem about Humanity Shows why We need a Global Response

Coronavirus Solidarity: A 13th Century Mystical Persian Poem about Humanity Shows why We need a Global Response

By Arshin Adib-Moghaddam | – Coronavirus is all about human connectivity. From a philosophical perspective, I’ve been thinking about how this virus is forcing us […]

The Conversation

Epidemics
People are Dying:  Why are We Waiting for Medicare for All?

People are Dying: Why are We Waiting for Medicare for All?

By F. Douglas Stephenson (The Gainesville Sun)- An old social justice chant, “Why are We Waiting,” is sung to the tune of the beautiful and […]

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Democratic Socialism
The Novel Coronavirus has a Well-Known Left-Wing Bias

The Novel Coronavirus has a Well-Known Left-Wing Bias

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The character played by comedian Stephen Colbert, back when he was parodying Fox “News” anchors, lamented that “Reality has a […]

Juan Cole

Epidemics
Coronavirus Proves It: We Need Medicare for All

Coronavirus Proves It: We Need Medicare for All

By Ashar Foley | (Otherwords.org) – For decades, critics of single-payer health care have raised the menace of rationed care, long waits, and “death panels.” […]

OtherWords

Climate Crisis
US Nat'l Security State Tilted at War on Terror Windmills when Real Threats --  Climate and Pandemic -- were at Home

US Nat’l Security State Tilted at War on Terror Windmills when Real Threats — Climate and Pandemic — were at Home

( Tomdispatch.com) – Americans are facing “A Spring Unlike Any Before.” So warned a front-page headline in the March 13th New York Times. That headline, […]

Andrew J. Bacevich

Donald Trump
In a Plague Year, Trump Ratchets up Tensions with Iran and Iraq

In a Plague Year, Trump Ratchets up Tensions with Iran and Iraq

San Francisco (Foreign Correspondent) – While the world focuses on the coronavirus pandemic, tensions between the US and Iran are heating up. The two countries […]

Reese Erlich

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