Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Declaration of Independence has been made a dead letter by the Trump regime as we celebrate the 249th anniversary […]
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A Dream Denied: Black Americans mostly left behind by progress since Dr. King’s death
By Sharon Austin | – On Apr. 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, while assisting striking sanitation workers. Back […]
Israel’s fear of prosecution strengthens Palestine narratives
By Ramona Wadi | – (Middle East Monitor ) – Israeli media has reported that the International Criminal Court (ICC) could issue secret arrest warrants […]
Why Gen Z is at the Vanguard of the Climate Movement
From the rise of organizations like Zero Hour to Greta Thunberg’s Fridays For Future, the youth climate movement is only just getting started.
What Martin Luther King Jr. Would have thought of Israeli anti-Palestinian Apartheid
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., whose activism we honor today, took stands far beyond Selma and Montgomery, and called […]
Some Technology is Too Dangerous: Iran’s Accidental Ballistic Launch and Australia’s Climate Inferno are Trying to Tell us Something
Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – The first month of 2020 has been full of lessons—if we are willing to listen. With over […]
Climate Catastrophe: With a Billion Animals Dead and the Koala in Danger, Will Australia’s Ecology Ever be the Same?
By Darren Evans | – The sheer scale and intensity of the Australian bushfire crisis have led to apocalyptic scenes making the front pages of […]
Indelible Legacy: Or How This Became a Gitmo World
Karen J. Greenberg and Joshua Dratel | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – In January 2002, the Guantánamo Bay Detention Facility in Cuba opened its gates […]
Wind Power Surging Globally and In U.S. despite Trump’s Opposition, Replacing Coal
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Coal is the dirtiest fossil fuel, and humanity needs to ban it yesterday if we are to keep the earth […]
The U.S. and Iran are Having a Huge Food Fight in Iraq after Trump assassinated Soleimani
By Bamo Nouri | – When thousands of anti-government protesters returned to Iraq’s streets on January 10, they were expressing anger at the explosion of […]