Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Lauri Myllyvirta writes at Carbon Brief that China’s CO2 emissions over-all fell by 1% in the past 12 months, and […]
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Saudis Riposted to drive Houthis from Najran, after Defeat of Saudi-Backed Yemeni Nationalists
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The details of the alleged Houthi operation against Saudi Arabia are still murky, and Saudi Arabia has so far declined […]
What the Dinosaurs Teach us: Earth won’t Recover from Human-Caused Mass Extinction for 2 mn Years
By Paul Bown, Samantha Gibbs, and Sarah Alvarez | – Around 66 million years ago, a giant asteroid struck the Earth, causing the extinction of […]
Israel’s systemic harassment of human rights workers
By Asa Winstanley | @AsaWinstanley | – Last week Israel … raided the offices of Addameer, a prisoners rights association, stealing some of its computers […]
Make America Greta Again
By Tom Engelhardt | – (Tomdispatch.com) – Look what Greta started and what she did to me! I took part in the recent climate-strike march […]
Yemen’s Houthis Say they Invaded Saudi Arabia, Captured Thousands of Troops in Najran
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Update 9/30: The Houthi military operation appears to have been against Saudi-backed nationalist bases in the far north of Yemen, […]
Spies and the White House have a history of running wild without congressional oversight
By Charles Tiefer | – At the heart of the current crisis over President Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is an intelligence […]
The First Inscriptional Evidence for the Wife of the Prophet Muhammad, Aisha
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Saudi archeologist Muhammad al-Maghthawi has published a photograph of an inscription in the vicinity of Medina that seems to […]
Ukraine gave up its Nukes for a US Security Pledge; Then Trump Muscled Zelensky by Cutting Mil. Aide
(Informed Comment) – In the coverage of the current scandal, no one seems to be writing about the national security debt the US (and others) […]
The Qur’an, the Prophet, and a Forgotten History – Juan Cole in conversation with Hamza Yusuf
From the podcast of the journal Renovatio: Journal of Zaytuna College. Juan Cole’s Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires (2018) retells the […]
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