Karadeniz, Turkiye (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – If China wants to rival the United States, it must stop watching and start acting. Beijing wants […]
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Trump, Troll-in-Chief, wags the Impeachment Dog by Going to War with Iran
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The madman in the White House has been sulking and raging for weeks about his impeachment proceedings, tweeting manically on […]
Top Five Countries that will Present Foreign Policy Challenges in 2020
By Catesby Holmes | – Where will the world’s attention turn in 2020? The United States’ impeachment trial of Donald Trump and the United Kingdom’s […]
Two ‘divinely chosen’ Great Leaders, Trump and Iran’s Khamenei, in Heated Tweet War over Iraq
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – I suppose it was foreseeable that at some point it would happen, but we’re finally here. President Donald J. Trump […]
Top 3 Practical Solutions to our Most Pressing Environmental Crises
By Jennifer Weeks | – From climate change to omnipresent plastic waste, 2019 delivered a lot of discouraging environmental news. Several special reports this year […]
How to Write Rubaiyat
Edward FitzGerald’s translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam was a worldwide publishing phenomenon from about 1880 until the 1970s, and is still beloved by […]
Trolling: Time to Realize what Smearing Palestinian Rights Activists as “anti-Semitic” Really is
(Middle East Monitor ) – At a talk I delivered in Northern England in March 2018, I proposed that the best response to falsified accusations […]
US Embassy in Baghdad Invaded after SecState Pompeo Slashed Security Funding, Took no Preventive Steps in wake of US Airstrikes
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – There was nothing more predictable than that the US Embassy should come under attack after the US Air Force bombed […]
Syria, Yemen, Libya: For the First Time since Versailles, will Rival Powers redraw the Middle East’s Borders?
By Muhammad Hussein | – This New Year will mark a century since the historic Treaty of Versailles was put into effect, creating the borders […]
From Mangroves to Salt Marshes, the Oceans hold the Key to Reducing Atmospheric CO2
So why are we destroying them?