International Politics and Economy

The United States failed on Monday to water down a UN resolution on combatting sexual harassment

On How Everything Sam Harris Says about Islam is Wrong (1)

Of the 100 million or so people I estimate were wiped out by political violence in the twentieth century, the vast majority of them were killed by secular nationalists, Communists and Fascists

Climate Change

All our Dystopias Now: Climate Crisis, Plutocracy and Hyper-Nationalism

John Feffer

(Tomdispatch.com) – The mid-term elections are over, and the Democrats have regained the House, but the rest of American political reality remains intact. Meanwhile, the campaigns barely touched on the most important issues of our time: war, climate change, and the fracturing of the international community. So, let’s consider these larger issues from a different […]

Peace

Why Women’s Peace Activism in World War I Matters Now

The Conversation

Proponents of international mediation hoped diplomatic intervention could bring the war to a swift end

Featured

Macron’s Slam of Nationalism got it Right, but didn’t note Dehumanization

Juan Cole

The old demons are resurging

Featured

The Lessons of World War I– Don’t Trust Hateful Politicians like Trump

Juan Cole

Trump is in Paris to commemorate the end of World War I, about which he knows almost nothing. The outbreak of that war in 1914 took many contemporaries by surprise. That it would last four years, when leaders promised a quick victory, was a another shock. That advanced machine guns and artillery would make mincemeat […]

Left Politics

Can Sanders’ House Progressives go International to Block Bannon’s Far Right?

John Feffer

It takes climate change and renewable energy seriously

Featured

As World warns of WW I-Style Nationalisms, Top 5 Nations Trump Demonizes

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – French President Emmanuel Macron warned, as Europe prepares to commemorate the end of World War I a century ago on November 11, that the world is entering a new age of destructive nationalism. Virulent nationalism roiled Europe and killed over 80 million people in the two world wars. That is […]

Corruption

Top 5 Mistakes GOP’s Wohl Made in allegedly framing Mueller for Sex Charges

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) | – 1. Republican activist Jacob Wohl allegedly set up a phony company called “Surefire Intelligence,” charged with paying supposed women victims of Special Counsel Robert Mueller to allege sexual abuse. Wohl used his own email address to set up the site, and give his mother’s telephone number as the contact. […]