Ann Arbor (Informed Comment): Devlin Barrett and Matt Zapotosky at WaPo broke the story that Special Counsel Bob Mueller wrote a sharp letter to Attorney General William Barr to protest the 4-page summary Barr put out before releasing the Mueller report to the public. The letter was private but someone just leaked it to WaPo. […]
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Archives for 2019
Top 6 Ways to Curb America’s Skyrocketing Military Tab
War is the ultimate audit and, as any American should know, the Pentagon is incapable of passing an audit
Palestinians are Suing the Illegal Israeli Squatters who List Stolen Property on AirBnB
This is the first time that Palestinians are challenging the settlers living on their land in US courts
Israel Raids, Stops Solar Panel Installation in Palestinian Jordan Valley
TUBAS (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities delivered a stop-construction notice to solar panels, in the northern Jordan Valley, in the occupied West Bank, ordering halt of construction, on Monday. Mutaz Bisharat, a Palestinian official in charge of Jordan Valley’s Israeli settlements file at the Palestinian Authority (PA), said that the Israeli authorities raided the area and […]
Are we Trapped in Orwell’s ‘1984’?
It teaches us that power and tyranny are made possible through the use of words and how they are mediated
In our National Interest? 250K Yemenis now Starving to Death, with 233K already dead in Trump-Backed War
140,000 of the dead are children under 5
Saudis Accused of Serious Crimes Aided in Fleeing US as Officials Turn Blind Eye
By Sebastian Rotella and Tim Golden (ProPublica), with Shane Dixon Kavanaugh, The Oregonian/OregonLive This story was co-published with The Oregonian/OregonLive. The FBI, Department of Homeland Security and other agencies have known for years that Saudi diplomats were helping Saudi fugitives. But Washington avoided even raising the problem out of concern that it might hurt Saudi […]
Sudan: How Protestors Carved out a Space to Challenge Dictatorship
Hundreds of thousands of people marched to the Sudanese Army’s headquarters in the Ministry of Defence’s complex
The World’s Happiest People Already have a Green New Deal, and they Love It
All the Nordics have found that their focus on climate coinciding with growth in the common good
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