Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The European Centre for Development Policy Management has issued a new report on the threats of human-caused climate change to […]
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Green Energy is Quiet Energy: Let’s stop getting Sick from Noise Pollution
( Tomdispatch.com ) – The most pressing environmental crisis of these times, our heating of the Earth through carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas pollution, […]
International Pressure on Israel averted Widespread Gaza Famine this Summer, but the Danger is Back: RI
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Refugees International has issued a new report about hunger in Gaza. The authors say, “Contrary to the official Israeli pushback, […]
Time to End Business as Usual in Unlawful West Bank Settlements
By Bill Van Esveld Associate Director, MENA, Children’s Rights Division ( Human Rights Watch ) – The United Nations’ core human rights agency is mandated […]
Springfield Native: Vance’s Nazi Lie about Haitians Summoned Nazis to March in our Streets
By David DeWitt | – (Ohio Capital Journal ) – Sometimes the disgusting sewer of presidential year politics hits a little too close to home, […]
Eugene Rogan’s The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Review of Eugene Rogan, “The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Making of the Modern Middle East” (New York: Basic Books, 2024). Munich, Germany […]
Protesting Israel’s targeted destruction of all Schools and Universities in Gaza
Middle East Studies Association Board | Committee on Academic Freedom | – Dear President Biden, Vice-President Harris, Secretary of State Blinken, and Secretary of Defense […]
Why the Far Right Lies about Immigrants
( Otherwords.org ) – When my dad moved to southwest Ohio in the early 1970s, the Dayton-Springfield area’s second city was home to over 80,000 […]
Woman, Life, Freedom: Rachel, Shireen, Mahsa and Ayşenur
Newark, Del. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – A few days before the invasion of Iraq by American forces under G.W. Bush, on March 16, […]
Sudan is Burning and Foreign Powers are Benefiting – what’s in it for the United Arab Emirates?
By May Darwich, University of Birmingham | – (The Conversation) – The United Nations has accused foreign players of prolonging the war in Sudan, making […]