Statement from Katherine Franke, January 10, 2025 For the last year and a half, as students at Columbia University and across the globe have protested […]
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75 Years Later, Israel Blocking Palestinian Refugees’ Return
Omar Shakir Israel and Palestine Director, Middle East and North Africa Division @OmarSShakir From the morgues of Cairo to the cells of Guantanamo, I’ve […]
More than two dozen Cities and States are suing Big Oil over Climate Change – they just got a Boost from the US Supreme Court
By Patrick Parenteau, Vermont Law & Graduate School and John Dernbach, Widener University | – Honolulu has lost more than 5 miles of its famous […]
White Nationalists, Hindu Supremacists: the Pathologies of the World’s Two Largest Democracies
By Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Are you worried about the rising political power of violent white nationalists […]
China’s Solar Power Installations Skyrocket by 36.6%, may install 100 Gigs of New Solar this Year
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In the first four months of 2023, China’s solar power installations increased by an incredible 36.6 percent year over year, […]
Nakba: Remembering Israel’s Massacre of Palestinians at Tantura
Nasim Ahmed Nasimbythedocks ( Middle East Monitor ) – On this day in May 1948, up to 200 Palestinians were massacred by Israeli […]
Chinese Immigrants sue over New DeSantis Law in Florida Barring them from Buying Homes or Land
By: Mitch Perry – Chinese citizens who live and work in Florida have filed a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a law recently signed […]
Women’s secret war: the inside story of how the US military sent female soldiers on covert combat missions to Afghanistan
By Jennifer Greenburg, University of Sheffield | – A US Army handbook from 2011 opens one of its chapters with a line from Rudyard Kipling’s […]
Israeli Extremists led by Minister of Nat’l Security Storm al-Aqsa Mosque Complex, as Turkey Condemns “Fascism”
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that dozens of Israeli squatters, with Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir at their […]
New Medicare-for-All Legislation introduced by Sanders, Jayapal, Dingell, others: Why is the greatest Health System in the World only for the Affluent?
Gainesville, Fl. (Special to Informed Comment) – The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was supposed to contain costs and make insurance for health/mental health care affordable. […]