Orono, Maine (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – There are mornings when we are unable to bear to listen to the news taking place in […]
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Trump’s Debacle in the Desert: A Post Mortem on the Kurdish-American Military Alliance (1941-2019)
(Informed Comment) – An “After-Action” Report on the Kurds’ Vital Role in The Defeat of ISIS and Death of “God’s Shadow on Earth”: On October […]
How Big Oil Committed the Greatest Scam in History and Smeared Climate Science
By Naomi Oreskes | – (Tomdispatch.com) – It’s a tale for all time. What might be the greatest scam in history or, at least, the […]
On Armistice Day: How WW I is at the Root of our Total Wars– Poison Gas, Aerial Bombing, Machine Guns
Watching Londoners reveling in the streets on Armistice Day, November 11, 1918, the war critic and pacifist Bertrand Russell commented that people had cheered for […]
Israeli Army slammed for Hypocrisy over Cancer Tweet, as Gaza Patients Denied Care
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Al Jazeera English reports that a big tweetstorm broke out on Twitter after the Israeli military posted a tweet about […]
The New Middle East That’s Coming: End of American Empire?
(Foreign Policy in Focus) – As Saudi Arabia slowly backpedals, we could see an end to the Yemen war, an easing of Iran’s isolation, and […]
At a Time of Rising US Anti-Semitism, Remembering the Nazis’ Night of Broken Glass is More Important than Ever
By Wolf Gruner | – Every November, communities around the world hold remembrances on the anniversary of the Nazis’ brutal assault on the Jews during […]
Republican Voter Suppression and Election Theft outdoes anything Putin could Dream of
By Robert P. Alvarez | – (OtherWords.or) – When turnout climbs, Republicans lose. No wonder they’re closing polling places and purging voters all over the […]
Iraq: 17 Rockets target US Base, as Over a Dozen Protesters are Killed in Continued Massive Protests
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Some 17 katyusha rockets targeted a military base south of Mosul Saturday morning where US troops are based. There are […]
Emergency: The Climate Crisis may be Caused by Corporations, but it is Workers Who will Pay
By Theo Wuest | – 40 percent of Americans can’t afford a $400 emergency — and more emergencies are coming. We’ve already seen why. In […]
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