2020

( Otherwords.org ) – CEOs say they’re cutting their own pay in solidarity with laid off or hurting workers — only, not really. By Jim Hightower | September 16, 2020 COVID-19 has been a doubly-deadly disaster for millions of Americans, destroying both life and livelihoods. But one of the most heartening responses to the crisis […]

Inequality

Stop Profiteering on Misery: Private Prisons must be ended Now

F. Douglas Stephenson

Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment) – Every state should follow California’s outstanding example by ending the obscene system of private prisons and privately-run immigration detention facilities. California will phase out the use of these for-profit, private detention facilities by 2028. The state prohibited renewing contracts or signing new contracts with a private prison company […]

Christianity

As Humanity faces Sea-Level Rise, Revisit the Noah Story in the Bible and Qur’an

Emir-Stein Center

Jack Miles | Emir-Stein Center “Cultures are often revealed through the stories they hand down through generations. Every civilization has foundational ones. Among the stories many cultures tell, we find tales of a great flood, but the story of Noah’s flood captured the imagination of three great traditions: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim. The Jewish and […]

Featured

Affirming Jim Crow, Israeli Parliament votes down Bill guaranteeing Equality for Palestinian-Israelis, 21% of Population

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The London pan-Arab daily al-Quds al-Arabi (Arab Jerusalem) reports that the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, voted down a proposed basic law introduced by Yousef Jabareen on behalf of the Joint List. It aimed at altering the constitutional basis of the Israeli state, requiring democratic principles, cultural pluralism and complete equality […]

Israel/ Palestine

We Are the Children of Gaza: The Poet, the Fashionista and the Footballer

Ramzy Baroud

By Wafa Aludaini and Ramzy Baroud | ( Middle East Monitor ) – The inevitable has finally happened, and the coronavirus pandemic is now ravaging the besieged Gaza Strip. On August 24, a total lockdown was imposed by the Gaza authorities following the discovery of several COVID-19 cases outside designated quarantine areas. Since then, over […]

Climate Change

Germany’s Crypto-Neo-Nazi AfD Party calls for end to all climate action efforts

Benjamin Wehrmann

( Clean Energy Wire ) – The right-wing nationalist AfD party has called for an end to all major climate action efforts Germany has committed itself to and wants to abandon both the Paris Climate Agreement and the European Green Deal. One year before the general election in autumn 2021, the party that holds 12.6 […]

African-Americans

Trump’s appeals to white anxiety are not ‘dog whistles’ – they’re racism

The Conversation

By Bethany Albertson | – President Donald Trump’s rhetoric is often referred to as “dog whistle politics.” In politician speak, a dog whistle is language that conveys a particular meaning to a group of potential supporters. The targeted group hears the “whistle” because of its shared cultural reference, but others cannot. In 2018, The Washington […]

Donald Trump

If McConnell Packs the Court on behalf of Minority Rule, Dems must Expand and Reform it

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell was asked what he would do if there was a vacancy on the Supreme Court in 2020. He smirked like a mischievous turtle, and said unhesitatingly, “We’ll fill it.” By “we” he meant not the American people but the unrepresentative Republicans in the Senate. Russell […]

Feminism

How Ruth Bader Ginsburg helped shape the modern era of women’s rights – even before she went on the Supreme Court