Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A new study by Dilek Koptekin et al., a Swiss-Turkish team, has appeared in Science that combines archeological and genetics […]
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Climate Crisis Stress is already Killing Us: this Chaos Map shows Where
By Aled Jones, Davide Natalini,Anglia Ruskin, and Imelda Phadtare | – Over 12 days at the start of October 2019 eight people were killed, more […]
Iran seeks to Take advantage of Trump’s Exit from Syria to become Diplomatic Power Broker
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – How has Trump’s impetuous invitation to Turkey to invade Syria and displace America’s allies against ISIL, the Syrian Kurds, issued […]
How Much in ‘Inequality Tax’ Are You Paying?
(Inequality.org) – The hidden burden America’s top-heavy distribution of income and wealth places on people of modest means What nation ranks as the world’s richest? […]
Erdogan’s Plan to Resettle Arabs in Syrian Kurdish Zone is dangerous and expensive
By Stasa Salacanin | – Although the Turkish offensive in north-east Syria has ceased for five days, concerns are mounting over the humanitarian impact of […]
New War for Oil? Trump to Occupy Oil-Rich Syrian Province with Tank Corps, Asks for Kurdish Displacement There
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump said he talked to Syrian Democratic Forces leader Gen. Mazloum Abdi on Thursday. As usual, Trump’s report of the […]
Killing Me Softly with Militarism: The Decay of Democracy in America
(Tomdispatch.com) – When Americans think of militarism, they may imagine jackbooted soldiers goose-stepping through the streets as flag-waving crowds exult; or, like our president, they […]
No, Erdogan can’t send most of Turkey’s 3.7 mn Syrian Refugees into Kurdish Regions
By Shelley Inglis | – Turkey’s recent military incursion into northern Syria is aimed at weakening Syrian Kurdish forces along its border. Turkey believes those […]
California’s Wildfire Electricity Blackouts are a Taste of Climate Apocalypse to Come
By Abrahm Lustgarten | ( ProPublica) | – PG&E’s rolling blackouts probably don’t eliminate fire risk, and they actually could make responding to fires harder. […]
Did Trump just reward Turkish Pres. Erdogan for Obeying Putin?
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – I asked last week how it could be that Trump greenlighted the Turkish invasion of northern Syrian and the ethnic […]
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