Was Zarif forced out by regime hard liners angry about his role in the 2015 Nuclear Deal?
Not Trump’s America: On How the Oscars looked Like the Real America this Year
Cuarón: “”I want to thank the Academy for recognizing a film centered around an indigenous woman. One of the 70 million domestic workers in the world without work rights”
Can AIPAC sell Netanyahu’s Kahanist Terrorists to Middle America?
The Israel lobbies demand silence from Americans and now are even attempting to deep-six the First Amendment by more or less outlawing BDS
Leftist Syrian Kurds Rejoice that Trump will Keep Hundreds of US Troops in Syria
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The left wing Democratic Union Party of Kurds in Northeast Syria and its paramilitary, the People’s Protection Units (YPG), warmly welcomed President Trump’s about-face and decision to keep at least 200 US troops in Syria on Friday. A YPG militia commander said that this American step “will prevent the region […]
Israeli PM Netanyahu partners with Kahanist Terrorist Elements, seeking another Term
Israel has evolved as an ethno-nationalist supremacist state that practices Jim Crow forms of discrimination
How Kushner and other Key Trump Officials Plotted to Give Saudis the Atom Bomb in Return for Billions
For all we know, the plan to give the Saudis a nuke is still in play
Morocco Produced 35% of its Electricity from Renewables in 2018
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Morocco produced 35% of its electricity last year from wind, solar, and hydroelectric sources, putting it on track to its goal of getting 42% from green sources by 2020. It had a further goal of 52% renewables by 2030, but now hopes to go even faster. In contrast, the US […]
Sleepwalking into our Constitutional Crisis in the Age of Trump
As a historian of the Middle East, let me just point out that declaring a state of emergency is a means of creating a president for life
Top 5 Reasons Trump should not get the Nobel Peace Prize
Trump has likely just kicked off a nuclear arms race with Russia