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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Should we cover the Sahara Desert with Solar Panels to Fight Climate Disaster?
By Will de Freitas |- You may have seen a variant of this meme before. A map of North Africa is shown, with a surprisingly […]
US Blasts Turkey for drilling for NatGas in Cyprus, foiling Israel pipeline deal
The US Ambassador to Cyprus, Judith Garber, has expressed her deep concerns over Turkey’s continued drilling off the coast of Cyprus, and urged Turkey to […]
After Death Threats, Rep. Rashida Tlaib Pleads with FBI to take Far Right White Terrorism Seriously (TYT Video)
“Rep. Rashida Tlaib gets emotional while questioning FBI officials about domestic terrorism: “How is that not enough to fall under domestic terrorism if they’re targeting […]
Climate Disaster: Our CO2 Levels are Dangerously High, but add in the Methane and it is Much Worse
By Zoe Loh, Blagoj Mitrevski, David Etheridge, Nada Derek, Paul Fraser, Paul Krummel, Paul Steele, Ray Langenfelds, and Sam Cleland | – This week brought […]
On D-Day: Remembering the Muslim Troops who Fought the Axis
Updated. By Juan Cole One of the frustrations for a world historian is the unyieldingly parochial vision of the North Atlantic common among journalists and […]
Trump’s Plan to Pardon War Criminals is Outrageous, but the Higher-Ups were Never even Charged
By Rebecca Gordon | – (Tomdispatch.com) – Memorial Day has come and gone and President Trump did not issue his pardons after all. There was […]
Hey, Psst, Prince Charles: Here are Some Graphs on Global Heating that maybe Even Trump could Understand
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump says that a meeting with Prince Charles that was supposed to last for 15 minutes extended to an hour […]
Sudan Democracy Protesters Reject Negotiations with Military after Bloody Crackdown
Sudan’s military rulers offered to resume talks with opposition groups on Wednesday, two days after security forces mounted a deadly raid on a protest camp, […]
In US History, Islamophobia and anti-Semitism have Gone together as Hate Speech
By Peter Gottschalk | – Congresswoman Ilhan Omar tweeted recently that “Islamophobia and anti-Semitism are two sides of the same bigoted coin.” Her comments came […]
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