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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Deaths in Sudan’s Civil War are Estimated at 62,000, but the Real Toll may be Far Higher
By Sarah Elizabeth Scales, University of Nebraska Medical Center; Blake Erhardt-Ohren, University of California, Berkeley; Debarati Guha Sapir, Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain); Khidir Dalouk, […]
The Super-Rich have a long history of Backing Fascism and Buying the White House: It is Happening Again
Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Hopping around the rally stage like a drunken monkey, Elon Musk — the world’s most awkward man — […]
Gaza: The United Nations warns that extreme Hunger threatens to engulf an entire Population
By Clare Dix, University of the Sunshine Coast and Helen Truby, The University of Queensland | – The risk of famine looms in Gaza. International […]
The “Black Lives don’t Matter” President: Holding Trump accountable for a Lifetime of Racism
By Clarence Lusane ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Donald Trump was the worst president for Black people in the modern era, if not the nation’s history. […]
Will Türkiye Stay Committed to the Kurdish Peace Process?
(Istanbul: Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – On October 22, Devlet Bahçeli, the leader of the far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and an ally of […]
Israel’s Extremists Plan for the Day after the Genocide: “Gaza is Ours, Forever.”
( Middle East Monitor ) – Under the slogan ‘Gaza is Ours, Forever’, a large number of Israeli extremists and right-wing politicians met in the […]
Palestine’s Economy teeters on the Brink after a Year of War and unrelenting Destruction
By Dalia Alazzeh, University of the West of Scotland and Shahzad Uddin, University of Essex | – (The Conversation) – The Palestinian economy has been […]
Echoes and Parallels from 1939 – Trump’s Nazi Rally at Madison Square Garden
Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – On February 20, 1939, the German-American Bund held a rally at Madison Square Garden (MSG) called a […]
Israel’s ban on UNRWA continues a Pattern of politicizing Palestinian refugee Aid – and puts Millions of Lives at Risk
By Nicholas R. Micinski, University of Maine and Kelsey Norman, Rice University | – (The Conversation) – The Israeli parliament’s vote on Oct. 28, 2024, […]
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