Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – NOAA has issued its annual report on the Arctic. It is a big report, but there are some terrifying findings. Because this point is not always made in the journalism, it is important to underline why these monstrous things are happening. It is because you are driving your gasoline-fueled automobile […]
Archives for December 2019
Divestment, Decolonization and Resistance: How to Stop Our Carbon Dioxide Monster
By Diana Vela Almeida,Catherine Windey, Gert Van Hecken, Melissa Moreano, Nicolas Kosoy, Vijay Kolinjivadi | – We are in the midst of a global environmental crisis and the sense of urgency becomes ever more evident with each additional story of climate disasters, ecological tipping points and climate records being shattered somewhere in the world. At […]
No to Sexism and Ageism! Iraqi Youth Protesters are Changing the Culture
Mustafa Habib | Baghdad | – ( Niqash.org ) – Iraq’s ongoing anti-government protests are turning out to be about more than just political demands. They’re also changing the country’s culture around sexism, ageism and other long-held prejudices. Despite a lack of coordination between all the different groups of Iraqi protesters taking part in anti-government […]
Muslim Ban goes Global? How India’s Citizenship Bill Discriminates against Muslims
Draft Law Favors Hindus, Other Non-Muslim Immigrants
We didn’t Need the Documents: America’s Trillion $ Failure in the Afghanistan War has been Obvious All Along
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Craig Whitlock at the Washington Post brought out a blockbuster report Monday on the lies US government and military personnel have been telling the American people about the Afghanistan War since 2002. The Post also published 611 of the primary documents here. A lot of the reporting off Whitlock’s article […]
Muslims aren’t the Only Ones Endangered by Israeli Groups Churning Far-Right Hatred
By Nasim Ahmed | @Nasimbythedocks | – Last week, a Guardian investigation traced a network of Facebook accounts fuelling far-right Islamophobic pages around the world to Israel. Journalists at the UK daily uncovered a plot to take over some of Facebook’s largest far-right pages in an attempt to foment hatred towards Islam and Muslims while […]
Not Just Weather: Climate Crisis is About Food Shortages and Lack of Security
By Julian Heyes | – Climate change is altering conditions that sustain food production, with cascading consequences for food security and global economies. Recent research evaluated the simultaneous impacts of climate change on agriculture and marine fisheries globally. Modelling of those impacts under a business-as-usual carbon emission scenario suggested about 90% of the world’s population […]
In Wag the Dog Move, Indicted Israeli PM Netanyahu Moves to Annex 25% of Palestinian West Bank
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Interim Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu committed again on Sunday that his government will steal the entire Jordan Valley from the Palestinians. He had floated this plan two months ago but now seems to be determined to move ahead. It makes up 25% of the Palestinian West Bank. Israel is […]
How Turkish Muslims at Atlantic Records Marketed Motown, Jazz, Black Music to America
(Special to Informed Comment) – To those outside of the music business the title, “The House that Ahmet Built” might sound like the name of a Turkish folktale for children. But for those in the know, the ‘house’ was Atlantic Records and ‘Ahmet’ was Ahmet Ertegun, the great record company’s co-founder. In 1947 along with […]
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