Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Al Jazeera bureau chief in Tehran, Abdul Qader Fayez, reports from “informed sources” in Tehran that Iran’s clerical Leader, […]
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Behold the Child: US is Complicit in Thousands of Minor Deaths in Yemen & other Killing Fields
Children around the world are suffering, increasingly unsafe, and preyed upon in ever larger numbers
Health, Poverty, Conflict in Charts: Is the World Better off Today than ever before in History?
By Julius Probst | – Swedish academic Hans Rosling has identified a worrying trend: not only do many people across advanced economies have no idea […]
Copenhagen to be 1st Carbon Neutral City by 2025 and other Wind Energy Good News Stories
Some ten percent of greater Copenhagen’s households will be powered by wind turbines set up on 9 artificial islands off its coast
The West Has Islam Dangerously Wrong
Western accounts have discounted this emphasis that the Qur’an clearly has on peace-building, peace-making, striving against violent conflict.
Why do Protests Keep Happening in North Africa? It’s “al-Hogra”
It is used as a vehicle for social mobilization around overlapping rights such as the right to work, to education, to health, to housing
We’re on Course to Miss our “Best Chance” of Stopping Runaway Climate Change by 2020
An analysis by the World Resources Institute showed that current efforts to limit temperature increases are falling well short.
Israeli Snipers Killed 180, Injured 23,000 Gaza Protesters with Live Fire since March
23,000 Palestinians were injured in 2018 during the March of Return protests including 5183 minor boys, 464 girls and 1437 women
Why Martin Luther King, Jr., would Support Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, at 29, has become a lightning rod. She was recruited to run against a corporate […]
World’s 26 Richest Own Same as Poorest Half of Humanity: Oxfam
Piecemeal private services punish poor people and privilege elites