Informed Comment - Part 950

Trump Heights on Stolen Golan an Indictment of Colonial White Privilege

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a publicity stunt Trumpian in its iniquity and emptiness, the government of Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu put up […]

Juan Cole

Employment

Renewable Energy Employed 11 Million People last Year, 8% Growth Forecast

In the US, “The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that wind turbine technician jobs will be the second-fastest-growing occupation through 2026

Clean Energy Wire

racism

How can Society deter Rogue Police who Shoot unarmed Black People?

By Zenobia Jeffries Warfield | – (Yes! Magazine) – Since the police killings of Botham Jean in Dallas and Emantic “E.J.” Bradford in Birmingham, Alabama, […]

Yes! Magazine

Turkey

Turkey Must Stop Prosecuting, Imprisoning Scholars for Signing a Peace Petition (Yes)

Committee on Academic Freedom Middle East Studies Association of North America, Inc. H.E. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan President of the Republic of Turkey T.C. Cumhurbaşkanlığı Genel […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

Donald Trump

If Donald Trump is the Symptom, Then What is the Disease?

(Tomdispatch.com) – Don’t try to deny it! The political temperature of this country is rising fast. Call it Trump change or Trump warming, if you […]

Tom Engelhardt

Afghanistan

Once Again Pompeo Displays Hopeless Ignorance of Sunni & Shiite, Iran and Taliban

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Washington Post reports that when US Secretary of State “Benghazi Mike” Pompeo gave his breathless news conference last Thursday […]

Juan Cole

Iran