Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A new study by Dilek Koptekin et al., a Swiss-Turkish team, has appeared in Science that combines archeological and genetics […]
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Clouds of War: Russia sends Warships as Turkey kills 45 Syrian Troops and blackmails Europe with Migration
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Turkey and Russia engaged in a tense dance of negotiation and threat on Friday in the wake of the killing […]
Iran goes from Bad to Worse: Hardliners win elections, thanks in part to Trump’s treaty withdrawal
(Progressive.org) – ‘TEHRAN—The parliamentary candidates had rented a large hall for a campaign rally, but only a few hundred supporters showed up. They came to […]
Listing companies to boycott over Israeli war crimes is a start . . .
(Middle East Monitor) – The UN finally published its database this month listing companies which profit from Israel’s brutal military occupation of the West Bank. […]
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” […]
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