A bloc is attempting to deep-six the pledge made at COP28 to “transition away from fossil fuels.”
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Lasting Peace and Recovery in Gaza depends on local Participation, not just Ceasefires
By Mahmood Fayazi, Royal Roads University (The Conversation) – Two years into the Israeli war in Gaza, world leaders recently gathered in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, […]
Egypt’s Magnificent new Museum: Nationalism, Tourism, and the Economy
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Egypt’s new billion-dollar museum near the Giza pyramids opened on Saturday. It has 100,000 artifacts, including a massive statue of […]
Palestine: The Poem that cannot be Killed
by Karam Nama< ( Middle East Monitor ) – When Yitzhak Shamir stood in the Israeli Knesset, reciting with bitterness and historical humiliation the […]
Dockworker strikes in solidarity with Gaza have a long legacy
Since dockworkers operate at a crucial “choke point” in the military supply chain to Israel, their boycotts are a powerful form of solidarity with Gaza. […]
With China’s Help, Saudi Arabia is Deploying Solar Power Faster than any Country in History
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Jeffrey Beyer and Stephen Gitonga of the UN Development Program present an overview of Saudi Arabia’s full court press to […]
Broken Promises: Deceptive Marketing Practices in Medicare
Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment) – Award winning journalist,Trudy Lieberman, a former president of the Association of Health Care Journalists, alerts us that it […]
How Women Journalists and Activists have been Changing the Middle East
By Farinaz Basmechi, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa (The Conversation) – Last month marked the third anniversary of the Woman, Life, Freedom movement in Iran, an […]
What I saw in Vietnam, 50 Years after the War and Ecocide
Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – This year 2025 is the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Vietnam from the “American War.” The […]
“Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:23
In Quatrain no. 23 in the first edition of Edward FitzGerald’s translation of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, we find an explicit denial of the […]
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