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On the Occasion of Dick Cheney’s Passing:  “All the Vice President’s Men”
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On the Occasion of Dick Cheney’s Passing: “All the Vice President’s Men”

Juan Cole

Dick Cheney and the Iraq War – was it about Oil? How Cheney coarsened American politics

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Zohran Mamdani’s Proposals to Help New Yorkers Are Surprisingly Affordable

Zohran Mamdani’s Proposals to Help New Yorkers Are Surprisingly Affordable

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The Multipolarism of Fools: The BRICS are not the Answer

The Multipolarism of Fools: The BRICS are not the Answer

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In Palestine, Covid-19 Meets the Israeli Occupation

In Palestine, Covid-19 Meets the Israeli Occupation

(Al-Shabaka.org) – The first measures taken against COVID-19 in the West Bank occurred in early March after the confirmation of seven cases in Bethlehem that […]

Yara Hawari

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Could Trump end up in Court over his Disastrous Mishandling of Coronavirus?

Could Trump end up in Court over his Disastrous Mishandling of Coronavirus?

(Foreign Policy in Focus and Hankyoreh) – Donald Trump said that he would make America number one again. And now the United States leads the […]

John Feffer

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This isn’t the first global pandemic, and it won’t be the last. Here’s what we’ve learned from 4 others throughout history

This isn’t the first global pandemic, and it won’t be the last. Here’s what we’ve learned from 4 others throughout history

By David Griffin and Justin Denholm | – The course of human history has been shaped by infectious diseases, and the current crisis certainly won’t […]

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Corruption
Protesters slam 'Crime Minister" Netanyahu's Assault on Democracy in Israel, Praise Palestinian-Israeli Medics fighting Coronavirus

Protesters slam ‘Crime Minister” Netanyahu’s Assault on Democracy in Israel, Praise Palestinian-Israeli Medics fighting Coronavirus

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Some two thousand demonstrators gathered in formation in Rabin Square on Sunday in Tel Aviv for a “black flag” protest […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Strange Attractors: Why is Trump's Covid-19 Train Wreck so Mesmerizing to Corporate Media and the rest of Us?

Strange Attractors: Why is Trump’s Covid-19 Train Wreck so Mesmerizing to Corporate Media and the rest of Us?

(Tomdispatch.com) – My partner and I have been fighting about politics since we met in 1965. I was 13. She was 18 and my summer […]

Rebecca Gordon

Epidemics
Medicare for All: Covid-19 shows when it Comes to Health, the Government is your friend, the Private Sector sees you as an ATM

Medicare for All: Covid-19 shows when it Comes to Health, the Government is your friend, the Private Sector sees you as an ATM

Gainesville, Fl. (Special to Informed Comment) – To protect and enhance high profits by opposing improved Medicare for All, the private health insurance industry has […]

F. Douglas Stephenson

Epidemics
Unprotected Nurses of the World, Unite; You have nothing to Lose but your Corporate Chains

Unprotected Nurses of the World, Unite; You have nothing to Lose but your Corporate Chains

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – Many pundits have correctly recognized Covis19’s role in exposing extreme class, race, and gender inequalities in this […]

John Buell

Climate Crisis
Is Covid-19 Killing the Coal Industry in Egypt and around the World? In the Meantime, Solar Shines

Is Covid-19 Killing the Coal Industry in Egypt and around the World? In the Meantime, Solar Shines

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Simon Nicholas at South Africa’s Business Live reports that the proposed huge new Hamrawein coal-fueled power plant in Egypt has […]

Juan Cole

Democratic Socialism
The Rich wanted to Strangle a Tiny Gov't in a Bathtub to avoid Taxes; Now it Turns out We need a Competent State

The Rich wanted to Strangle a Tiny Gov’t in a Bathtub to avoid Taxes; Now it Turns out We need a Competent State

( Otherwords.org) – Amazingly, America has become a nation of socialists, asking in dismay: “Where’s the government?” These are not born-again Bernie Sanders activists, but […]

Jim Hightower

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