Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reports that 19 of every 100 Palestinian children in Gaza are malnourished. That is […]
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How we gave up our Health, Environment and Diplomacy for Wars, Walls and Plutocracy
Greenfield, MA (Special to Informed Comment) -Budgets are moral documents (or immoral, depending on priorities). So also is tax policy. Consider Trump’s proposed $1.3 trillion […]
The Future May be Female, but the Pandemic is Patriarchal
( Tomdispatch.com) – Before I found myself “sheltering in place,” this article was to be about women’s actions around the world to mark March 8th, […]
Trump admits that Easy Voting would Defeat Republicans. That’s because they’ve made Their Base White and Evangelical
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Colin Kalmbacher at Law&Crime surveys reactions to Trump’s admission in an interview on Fox News that a mail-in ballot program […]
The Israel Gov’t is taking advantage of Pandemic to Heighten Military Dictatorship over Palestinians
The populations of many countries the world over are right now living under unprecedented quarantine measures and restrictions on movement. The threat of the rapidly […]
Pandemic will cause another Housing Crisis, and Without Strong Long-Term Gov’t Policy it Will hit Workers Hardest
By Roshanak Mehdipanah and Gregory Sallabank | – Millions of Americans are suddenly out of work as the financial and economic crisis sparked by the […]
How My Dad, Born just before the Spanish Flu, Predicted the Decline of America
( Tomdispatch.com) – My dad was born in 1917. Somehow, he survived the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918-1919, but an outbreak of whooping cough in […]
The Real Danger behind Trump’s “China Virus” Mantra
Ann Arbor (Special to Informed Comment) – The “China-Virus” mantra illustrates well this administration’s habit of responding to challenges by branding people as ethnic, religious, […]
Presence-as-Resistance: Iranian Women and the Politics of Social Contestation
The history of everyday public resistance on the part of women’s movements in Iran
Trump bashed Immigrants, but Nearly 1/3 of US Doctors are Foreign-Born, on Pandemic Front Lines
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – It turns out we need those foreigners after all, despite what Trump thinks. On Sunday British investigative journalist Iain Overton […]
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