Informed Comment - Part 961

Trump and our Second Gilded Age– Even more Disgusting than the First

Why, then, when Veblen saw America’s plutocratic bent so clearly, is he now neglected?

Peak Crisis in Sudan as Army elements side with Youth, Women against Dictator Bashir

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Omar Hassan al-Bashir, b. 1944, has been deposed as president of Sudan in the wake of a military coup, according […]

Juan Cole

Iran

IRGC’s ‘Terrorist’ Designation Raises U.S. Stakes Over Iran

Ostovar adds that the risks will depend on how Iran decides to respond

Golnaz Esfandiari

Israel/ Palestine

Airbnb pivots, will List Israeli Squatter Settlements on Palestinian Land in West Bank

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Home-renting company, Airbnb, confirmed it would not implement a planned delisting of Israeli settlements, which are considered illegal under international law, in […]

Maan News Agency

Israel

Netanyahu won in Israel because his Rivals campaigned as Netanyahu Lite

The silence of Gantz’s team on the two-state solution enabled Netanyahu to move discussion to the hard-right’s agenda to annex the occupied territories.

The Conversation

Featured

Zionist OA’s Mort Klein uses House Panel on White Nationalism to spread anti-Muslim Blood Libel

Zionist Organization of America head Morton Klein testified Tuesday before a congressional inquiry into white nationalism and promptly excused white nationalism. Klein denied that the […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine