Review of Mohammad Tarbush, My Palestine: An Impossible Exile (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024) Munich, Germany (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) –– –– It […]
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The War Ahead: Netanyahu’s Elections Gamble Will be Costly for Israel
( Middle East Monitor) – On September 1, the Lebanese group Hezbollah struck an Israeli military base near the border town of Avivim. The Lebanese […]
Failing Breitbart Comes for Juan Cole on Climate History and it Won’t Go Well
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – I understand that the far, far rightwing reused toilet paper that is Breitbart ran a hit piece on me today […]
To preserve democracy, the UK needs a mass movement both inside and outside Parliament
By Symon Hill ( Waging Nonviolence) – Thousands of people poured onto the streets of the United Kingdom . . . to challenge Prime Minister […]
Bernie Sanders after Saudi Prison Massacre in Yemen: “We are Complicit in this Nightmare”
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Saudi fighter-jets bombed a makeshift prison on a college campus in Dhamar, Yemen, south of the capital of Sana’a eight […]
In the Democrats’ bitter race to find a candidate to beat Trump, might Elizabeth Warren hold the key?
By Dennis Altman | – Conservative former congressman Joe Walsh recently announced he would challenge Donald Trump for the Republican Party’s 2020 Presidential nomination. Challenging […]
Why You can’t have Democracy without Strong Workers’ Unions
By Christine Owens | – When workers don’t have a voice in their workplace, they eventually lose their voice at the ballot box, too. You […]
Netanyahu is risking war to boost his electoral prospects
By Abdulaziz Kilani | @AZ_Kilani | – In an effort to boost his electoral prospects, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is risking the outbreak of […]
On Labor Day, US Workers are 1/3 poorer than in 2003 & Top 1% is 2x Richer
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Labor Day, American workers have little to celebrate. That’s alright. The September Labor Day, while initially proposed by some […]
Trump’s Economic Sanctions: War by Another Name
(Informed Comment) – In early 2019, the White House threatened to invade Venezuela, take down the government and replace it with their choice of president […]