Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – UNICEF’s Executive Director, Catherine Russell, said this week that “Children in Gaza are caught in a nightmare that worsens with every passing day.” There are some 3,000 new cases of diarrhea among the Strip’s children every single day now. In addition, the UN’s World Health Organization reports that the Israeli […]
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Featured
Genocide Denialism and the South African Complaint: USG Spokesmen like Kirby are the Goebbels of the 21st Century
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Biden Administration continues to run a scam on the US public and the world by running interference for the Israeli genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. The smarmy and duplicitous spokesman for the US National Security Council, John Kirby, responded to the South African complaint against Israel to the International […]
Bin Laden’s Curse: Gaza, Iran and the Reemergence of ISIL
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The responsibility for the bombing in Kerman, Iran, on Wednesday that killed at least 84 people and wounded another 284, has been claimed by the ISIL (Daesh, ISIS) terrorist group. The worst terrorist bombing in Iran since the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) blew up the Iranian leadership in 1981 struck at […]
How Long can Israel Defy the World?
Montréal (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Palestinians in Gaza are being decimated. Over 20 000 have been killed, mostly women and children. Three times more have been wounded. Some experts qualify it as genocide, others as massacre. Two million people have been displaced, many more than during the entire history of displacement of the […]
Can Masha Gessen get an Apology now that Israel’s Smotrich called Gaza a “Ghetto” that Should be Depopulated?
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The chief characteristic of the current Israeli government of PM Binyamin Netanyahu is the inclusion in it of elements that were shunned in Israeli politics until recently — the Kahanaists, who are militant racists and Greater Israel expansionists and who, unlike most other right wing forces in Israel, openly proclaim […]
Extreme Right Israeli Gov’t brands “Illegal” Supreme Court’s upholding of Judicial Review; Divisions Loom amid Gaza War
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In the midst of Israel’s brutal total war on Palestinian civilians in Gaza and its apparent failure to attain its basic war goals, the country’s Supreme Court has issued a ruling sure to throw the country into an unprecedented constitutional crisis. Members of the government criticized the court for issuing […]
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam: “When New Year’s rainclouds wash the tulip’s face”
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In the quatrains attributed to the medieval Iranian astronomer Omar Khayyam, the Rubáiyát, the renewal that comes with New Year is an important theme. Since the Iranian New Year is held on the spring solstice (typically March 21), it is associated with the rebirth of greenery. This year I’m sharing […]
33 new Gigs of Solar: Top 7 Renewables Good News Stories in the US for 2023
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The United States has long been characterized by its “can-do” spirit. With all the alarming news about climate change, it is easy for us to lose sight of the progress we are making. Here are IC’s top 7 renewables good news stories of 2023. 1. The solar industry in the […]
South Africa Charges Israel with Genocide at Int’l Court of Justice, as Global South charges West with Hypocrisy
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – South African society has had extensive experience with racial Apartheid (segregation and humiliation) and with genocide, which is defined in international law this way: “Genocide is the intentional a physical destruction of a social group in its entirety, or the intentional annihilation of such a significant part of the group […]
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