This week marks 80 years since the United States used its nuclear weapons against the civilian population of Japan in August 1945. Prior to that, […]
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Gaza as Israel’s AI-Driven High-Tech Genocide: UN
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A Special Committee of the United Nations Office of the High Commission on Human Rights has issued a new report […]
Medicare Advantage: A By-the-Numbers Look at This Profit-Seeking Healthcare Scam
Proponents claimed it would lower costs and improve health care for seniors. It has achieved neither of those goals; instead, it has become a wildly […]
Netanyahu and Trump: The Tag Team from a Fascist Hell
Both Trump and Netanyahu rely on a violent cult of tradition to advance their nationalist agendas and push a global system of apartheid, argues Yoav […]
China opens World’s Largest offshore Solar Power Facility, as U.S. Falls Farther Behind
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Solar panels are great sources of energy. We have them on our roof and they have saved us a lot […]
Israel’s Crimes against Humanity in Gaza: Forced Displacement of Palestinians Leaves much of Area Uninhabitable
Human Rights Watch ) | – Israeli authorities have caused massive, deliberate forced displacement of Palestinian civilians in Gaza since October 2023 and are responsible […]
A Democracy of Voices, If we can Keep It: Threats to Free Expression in the Trump Era
By Nan Levinson ( Tomdispatch.com ) – I thought I was done with free speech. For nearly two decades, I reported on it for the […]
Israel’s War on Palestinian Health
Belfast (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Since the beginning of Israel’s latest offensive against the Palestinian people in Gaza in October of last year, […]
End of empathy: Did the Gaza Genocide render the UN Irrelevant?
( Middle East Monitor ) – Francesca Albanese did not mince her words. In a strongly worded speech at the United Nations General Assembly Third […]
“Orbital,” by Samantha Harvey – A Short but Powerful Story urging us to Save the Planet – Wins 2024 Book Prize
By Debra Benita Shaw, University of East London | – (The Conversation) – Samantha Harvey’s Orbital has won the 2024 Booker prize. What it so […]
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