“At Cox’s Bazar, five thousand acres of forest have already been destroyed.”
Archives for December 2018
A New Middle East: Winners and Losers from Trump’s Abrupt Syria Withdrawal
Israel is gradually losing options for asserting itself over its neighbors militarily
Why Politics in 2019 will have a Lot More Backbone
Democracy in its current iteration can no longer sustain us
Trump Leaves Syria, then Turkey Announces $3.5 bn Patriot Missile Buy
The Trump admin. had issued an ultimatum after US outrage over the NATO ally’s earlier plans to buy from Russia.
Islamophobia & the Misuse of History: Isaiah 29 and Attacks on my “Muhammad: Prophet of Peace”
The book is academic history, and I genuinely had an open mind when I approached the writing of it
The Climate Crisis: “There is no Time to Continue down this Road of Madness”
The conference goals are “nowhere near ambitious enough to tackle” the climate emergency “at the scale we need to.”
What did Flynn Know about Russian ties to Trump and When did he Know it?
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Disgraced former National Security Adviser to Donald Trump, Michael Flynn, had his sentencing postponed until March on Tuesday after Judge Emmett Sullivan raked him over the coals for lying to the FBI in the White House and for intimating that he was not really guilty and had been entrapped by […]
Trump Admin. Relents, will Waive Muslim Ban to let Yemeni Mother see Dying Son
The Council on American-Islamic Relations launched a campaign that it said prompted 15,000 emails to elected officials
Little Jakelin’s Death in Border Patrol Site a ‘Systemic Failure’: Congressman
“The issue started when (CBP) violated the law and did not notify Congress within 24 hours that Jakelin had died in their custody.”