Istanbul (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – After nearly five decades of armed conflict with the Turkish state, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has begun […]
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Trump’s New Spy Chief Used to Work for a Foreign Politician the U.S. Accused of Corruption
By Isaac Arnsdorf | – (ProPublica) – Richard Grenell did not disclose payments for advocacy work on behalf of a Moldovan politician whom the U.S. […]
Nondisclosure and secrecy laws protect Bloomberg – not the women who sued him
By Elizabeth C. Tippett | – Billionaire and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg received a lot of flak at the Feb. 19 Democratic […]
White Terrorism targeting Innocent Muslims in Germany is not termed “Terrorism”
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Thursday, a racist extremist went to two shisha bars in Hanau, Germany, randomly shooting the people there. Since smoking […]
New Findings: 251.9 Million Years Ago Rapid Climate Change from CO2 Wiped out 90% of Species
By Jennifer Botha | – The end-Permian mass extinction is considered to be the most devastating biotic event in the history of life on Earth […]
Retired US Officers are all in on Forever Wars: Where are the Smedley Butlers of Today?
(Tomdispatch.com) – There once lived an odd little man — five feet nine inches tall and barely 140 pounds sopping wet — who rocked the […]
As Tensions Flare between Russia and Turkey in Syria, will Trump be Drawn in on side of Ankara?
By Bakr Sidqi | – Amid international neglect of the tragedy of an additional one million displaced individuals from the “de-escalation” zones in the countryside […]
Methane Emissions Crisis and Rapid Global Heating: It is all Fossil Fuel Drilling and Fracking
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Many policy and scientific questions have the form of a Whodunnit. In what Umberto Eco called the “closed” mystery, the […]
The Kushner-Netanyahu Plan for Israel to Annex Squatter Settlements in West Bank aims at Forever Blocking a Palestinian State
By Ghassan al-Shami | – (Middle East Monitor) – Israel and its allies in Washington view the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem as the focal […]
In Syria’s Idlib, Turkey is trying to play middle man between Russia and the US – with little success
By Umut Korkut and Tarik Basbugoglu | – The recent turn of events in Idlib, an opposition stronghold in north-western Syria undergoing bombardment by the […]
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