( Foreign Policy in Focus) – Conspiracy theorists never let a crisis go to waste. When something truly terrible happens, the conspiracy theorist sets to work to determine the dark, hidden forces at work behind the scenes that have produced the crisis. Some people might see God or the Devil as the prime mover behind […]
Archives for May 2020
Believe it or Not: Fighting the Coronavirus depends on Keeping our Oceans Healthy
By Torsten Thiele, Marie-Christine Imbert and Timothy Bouley |- ( China Dialogue ) – We must think about how we emerge in a new and more sustainable post-crisis world that places living resources at its heart. When thinking about life on Earth, there is no better place to start than the ocean. Life was born […]
Is Sympathy for the Plight of Occupied Palestinians winning the American University?
By Hatem Bazian | – ( Al Shabakah) – Palestine Legal recently published a report noting that the majority of suppression of Palestine advocacy in the US targets students and faculty. In particular, 89% of such incidents occurred on college campuses in 2014, and 74% in 2019. While these statistics illuminate the current struggle that […]
Top 5 Reasons Trump’s West Wing May be Emerging as a Coronavirus Epicenter
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Jana Winter and Hunter Walker at Yahoo News broke the story that 11 Secret Service agents have tested positive for the coronavirus. Likely some of them served in the West Wing. This week it was revealed at that a US military valet who brought Trump food came down with the […]
Trump and Biden on the Middle East
( 48hills.org) – We all know that President Donald Trump’s foreign policy has been a disaster. But is Joe Biden’s any better? Trump promised to stop America’s endless wars but has stationed some 80,000 troops in the Middle East. He pulled out of the Iran nuclear accord, and imposed harsh sanctions and even sent drones […]
The Middle East was beset by Terrorism; now it Faces Coronavirus and Economic Freefall
By Colin Powers| – ( Inequality.org ) – As acutely as COVID-19 and related policy responses are widening inequality in the United States, the pandemic’s biased effects threaten to be even more pronounced in many parts of the global south. This certainly appears to be the case for the non-Gulf countries of the Middle East […]
Why it doesn’t make Economic Sense to Ignore Climate Change in our Recovery from the Epidemic
By Anna Skarbek| – It will be tempting for some to overlook the climate change challenge in the rush to restart the economy after the pandemic . . . In the United States, the Trump administration is reportedly contemplating a coronavirus rescue package tailored specifically to oil and natural gas producers, while the Chinese government […]
Top 5 Ways Netanyahu’s Annexation of 30% of Palestinian West Bank will Devastate Israel
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli Supreme Court has ruled that, despite being indicted for corruption and press manipulation, Binyamin Netanyahu can take office as prime minister next week in a government of national unity that has him rotating the office with rival Benny Gantz of the Blue and White coalition after 18 months. […]
The Killing of Ahmaud Arbery highlights again the Fatal Danger of Jogging while Black
By Rashawn Ray | – Unsteady cellphone footage follows a jogger – an apparently young, black man – as he approaches and attempts to run around a white pickup truck parked in the middle of a suburban road. Moments later he lies dead on the ground. The killing of Ahmaud Arbery took place on Feb. […]
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