Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Egypt’s new billion-dollar museum near the Giza pyramids opened on Saturday. It has 100,000 artifacts, including a massive statue of […]
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With China’s Help, Saudi Arabia is Deploying Solar Power Faster than any Country in History
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Jeffrey Beyer and Stephen Gitonga of the UN Development Program present an overview of Saudi Arabia’s full court press to […]
Broken Promises: Deceptive Marketing Practices in Medicare
Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment) – Award winning journalist,Trudy Lieberman, a former president of the Association of Health Care Journalists, alerts us that it […]
How Women Journalists and Activists have been Changing the Middle East
By Farinaz Basmechi, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa (The Conversation) – Last month marked the third anniversary of the Woman, Life, Freedom movement in Iran, an […]
What I saw in Vietnam, 50 Years after the War and Ecocide
Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – This year 2025 is the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Vietnam from the “American War.” The […]
“Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:23
In Quatrain no. 23 in the first edition of Edward FitzGerald’s translation of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, we find an explicit denial of the […]
Samhain, the Celtic New Year, and Halloween
Orono, Maine (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The Celts, who lived about 3,000 years ago in an area which is now Gaul (France), Ireland, […]
Socialism or Barbarism: Reviving the History of the American Left
By Eric Ross | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – More than a century ago, from a Berlin prison cell where she was confined for her […]
Hurricane Melissa was 33% more Destructive in Jamaica because of People-Caused Climate Breakdown
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Hurricane Melissa is the most devastating storm to hit Jamaica in recorded history, CNN reports. It rapidly intensified over the […]
Sudan Mass Atrocities in Captured Darfur City: Rampant Abuse of Fleeing Civilians by RSF
Human Rights Watch – (Nairobi) – Dozens of videos posted on social media in recent days show Rapid Support Forces (RSF) carrying out extrajudicial killings […]
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