Review of Amin Saikal, “How to Lose a War: The Story of America’s Intervention in Afghanistan” (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2024). Munich, […]
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Juan Cole: The Rise and Fall of Oil and the US Invasion of Iraq
Here is the closing plenary panel of a conference held in mid-September by the Qatar branch of Georgetown University on “The Invasion of Iraq: Regional […]
How a Big Pharma Company Stalled a Potentially Lifesaving Vaccine in Pursuit of Bigger Profits
By Anna Maria Barry-Jester | – ( ProPublica) – Ever since he was a medical student, Dr. Neil Martinson has confronted the horrors of tuberculosis, […]
Yemen’s Houthis enter the Israel-Gaza Conflict: What Impact on US and Saudi Arabia?
By Mahad Darar, Colorado State University | – Yemen’s Houthi movement launched missiles and drones at Israel on Oct. 31, 2023 – provoking fears of […]
The Invisible Slaughter of Palestinian Children
Berkeley, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – According to our most reliable news sources, the children of Gaza are being slaughtered at a horrific […]
From Armenia to Gaza: War, Crimes, Truth and Denial
By Arnold Isaacs ( Tomdispatch.com) – This month’s catastrophic violence in Israel and Gaza — specifically, the contradictory statements from each side on the other’s […]
We Need an Immediate Ceasefire in Gaza
By Phyllis Bennis | ( Otherwords) – The violence in the Middle East is bringing horrifying new levels of human suffering to both Israelis and […]
Goodbye Acapulco: 205 mph Winds destroy 80% of Infrastructure, do $18 bn of Damage in Climate Change Warning
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Gaza City is not the only place that has been reduced to rubble in the past week. Dan Stillman at […]
Apocalyptic Politics are Clouding the U.S. Response to the Israel-Hamas Conflict and Demonizing Muslim-Americans
By Diane Roberts | – ( Florida Phoenix ) – Remember when a quarter of Americans thought Barack Obama might be the Antichrist? They feared […]
Gaza Bombing adds to the Generations of Palestinians displaced from their Homes
By Michael Vicente Perez, University of Memphis | – (The Conversation) – An estimated 1.4 million Palestinians have been displaced from their homes since the […]