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Looming Trump Impeachment puts him in Company of Challenged Corrupt Mideast Leaders
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – If we think about mass politics in the Middle East during the past 8 years as anti-corruption drives, it is […]
Germany’s Carbon Dioxide Emissions to Fall “Markedly” in 2019 as Energy Use Declines
By Benjamin Wehrmann and Julian Wettengel | – Germany is headed for second consecutive year of substantial reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, as a sharp […]
Too Inept to end the fruitless US Forever Wars: Trump v. the National Security State
(Tomdispatch.com) – Let us stipulate at the outset that Donald Trump is a vulgar and dishonest fraud without a principled bone in his corpulent frame. […]
After al-Baghdadi, What Future for far-right Mideast Radicalism?
By Natasha Lindstaedt | – Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of Islamic State (IS), is dead. After US special forces raided his safe house in […]
The Carbon Dioxide Horror Show: Sea Level threat to Coastal Cities triples in New Study
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Scott A. Kulp and Benjamin H. Strauss have published an extremely alarming set of conclusions in Nature in which they […]
Demanding Democracy: Lebanon’s PM Hariri Resigns in Face of Massive Protests, Gridlocked Corrupt Elite
Montreal (Informed Comment) – Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri has announced his resignation1 in a letter to President Michel Aoun. In a public address, the […]
Is Trump’s Visa Policy a Muslim Ban? The Numbers tell the Story
By Vahid Niayesh | – Did President Donald Trump’s travel ban – in place now for more than 22 months – become, in practice, a […]
The Israeli Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinian Christians that nobody is talking about
(Middle East Monitor) – Palestine’s Christian population is dwindling at an alarming rate. The world’s most ancient Christian community is moving elsewhere. And the reason […]
Bernie Sanders: Give Aid to Gaza; & It isn’t Anti-Semitism to Say Netanyahu Gov’t Racist
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Bernie Sanders has almost single-handedly changed the discourse on Israel in the Democratic Party and in the United States more […]