Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Nadeem Badshah at The Guardian reports that British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is expected to recognize a Palestinian state today, […]
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In Wake of “Afghanistan Papers” Scandal, Trump to Yank Out 4,000 Troops
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – VOA reports that Trump will pull 4,000 US troops from Afghanistan, leaving less than 9,000 in country. Of the 13,000 […]
The Military-Industrial State Just Keeps Getting More Expensive for the Rest of US
By William D. Hartung | – (Tomdispatch.com) – I’ve been writing critiques of the Pentagon, the national security state, and America’s never-ending military overreach since […]
Result of 50 yrs of the New Right: Trump Will Stay, GOP will Cling to Him
By J.M. Opal | – Donald Trump is no Richard Nixon. Nixon was a bully, a cynic and a crook who did all kinds of […]
Who’s Afraid of Medicare for All?
Not ordinary Democrats or independents — just insurance companies, lobbyists, and old-line politicians.
Fossil Fuels cause Climate Crisis and Wars: Turkey forces Israeli Ship to leave research on Cyprus Undersea Gas
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Daily Sabah is reporting that a couple of weeks ago the Turkish navy made an Israeli research vessel leave […]
A Coup against Trump? Or Trump’s Coup against the Rule of Law?
(Foreign Policy in Focus) – Donald Trump says that impeachment is actually a coup. It’s one more example of his attack on the rule of […]
Now that Australian Wildfires are choking its Cities with Smoke, Can we Finally talk Climate Emergency?
By Blanche Verlie | – I moved to Sydney less than five weeks ago and the city has been shrouded in smoke haze on and […]
The Disunited Kingdom
The General Election in the United Kingdom on Thursday 12 December produced a major earthquake in British politics. Although opinion polls had shown either a […]
From Tory Landslide to Trump non-Impeachment: Can Filthy Rich Liars sink Democracy in Britain and the U.S.?
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The danger to democracy posed by our new information system plus our new levels of wealth concentration cannot be overestimated. […]