2019

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Australia has been turned by the climate crisis into a huge oven. On Wednesday, 14 of the hottest places in the world were in Australia. Firefighters are combating 100 wildfires in New South Wales (NSW), with some of them encroaching on Sydney, Australia’s largest city. NSW declared a 7-day state […]

Afghanistan

An Afghan Perspective on 18 Years of Washington’s Lies about the War and our Suffering

contributors

By Basit Muhammadi | – (Special to Informed Comment) – On December 9, The Washington Post revealed interviews with American officials in Afghanistan who intentionally falsified facts regarding the 18-year conflict. In one of the interviews, Bob Crowley, a counterinsurgency adviser to U.S. military commanders in 2003, remarked that data “was altered to present the […]

Israel/ Palestine

The Likud Gov’t in Israel’s International War against Human Rights

Asa Winstanley

( Middle East Monitor ) – Israel has a long record of camouflaging the truth where Palestine is concerned. Integral to this, in recent years, has been the growing war against human rights groups documenting Israel’s abuses against Palestinians and other Arabs. Israel’s hostility towards such groups is targeted, first and foremost, against Palestinians themselves. […]

War

Is the ‘War on Terror’ actually a War on Education and the Young?

Tomdispatch

By Andrea Mazzarino | – (Tomdispatch.com) – One day in October 2001, shortly after the U.S. invaded Afghanistan, I stood at the front of a private high school classroom. As a new social studies teacher, I had been tasked with describing violence against women in that country. I showed the students an article from the […]

Congress

Trump is 3rd President in History to be Impeached; But will Senate Remove Him?

The Conversation

By Brendon O’Connor and Daniel Cooper | – The US House of Representatives voted today to impeach President Donald Trump, making him the third president in the history of the United States to be impeached. Last week, the House Judiciary Committee approved two articles of impeachment against President Trump. The first stated that Trump committed […]

Featured

The Miseries of Settler Colonialism: Jeff Goldberg thinks Israelis are the Seminoles

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Phil Weiss at Mondoweiss, the most lucid and informed voice on the American Jewish left doing journalism critical of right wing Zionism, reports on remarks of The Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg at a Jewish Community Center forum in Manhattan. In Weiss’s telling, Goldberg argued to his audience that Israelis are […]

Israel/ Palestine

How the Israel Army Muzzles Free Expression for Palestinians

Human Rights Watch

52 Years into Occupation, Peaceful Protest, Waving Flags Still Criminalized

Islamophobia

No, the Muslim Brotherhood did not Invent Islamophobia

Brian Whitaker

(Al-Bab.com) Columnist Melanie Phillips appears to be claiming that Islamophobia isn’t real A column by Melanie Phillips in last week’s issue of the Jewish Chronicle has been causing dismay both inside and outside Britain’s Jewish community – so much so that on Tuesday the paper’s editor issued an apology “to any reader who is angered […]