Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The first recorded world-historical pandemic took place (541–750 CE) in the Roman Empire and Sasanian Iran, as well as neighboring […]
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Trump’s New Year Fireworks this time were Chaos in Iraq
Boston (Special to Informed Comment) – The last day of 2019 saw a huge contrast between scenes of New Year’s joy in Times Square in […]
No Fair! Iran put its Country Right next to Bases used by US Military in Middle East
Political Cartoon | – “No Fair! Iran put its Country right next to Bases used by US Military in Middle East h/t Middle East Eye
Will Turkey sending its Troops to Libya Prolong the Civil War?
By Mustafa Fetouri | – Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government submitted a bill to the Turkish parliament seeking approval for its plans to send troops to […]
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 […]
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