Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A Special Committee of the United Nations Office of the High Commission on Human Rights has issued a new report […]
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In Sign of Turkey-Israel Thaw, a Joint Project is inked to build the World’s Largest Wave Power Plant on Black Sea
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has had a rocky relationship with Israel, which Turkey has long recognized and with which it […]
Iranian Protesters turn to TikTok to get their Message past Government Censors
By Whitney Shylee May, The University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts | – Images of the protests that followed the death of […]
Heard the Phrase ‘Illegal Israeli Settlements?’ *All* such Squatter-Settlements are Illegal
By Sari Al-Qudwa | – ( Middle East Monitor) – All Israeli settlements violate Article 49, paragraph six, of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949. […]
Inferno: Climate Disaster Is Turning the Planet into a Tinderbox
By Jane Braxton Little | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – Mike Savala’s boots scuffed the edge of a singed patch of forest littered with skinny fingers […]
Rapid Move to Wind and Solar Power would Save the world $12 Trillion: Oxford Study
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A transition away from fossil fuels to renewable sources of power by 2050 will save the world $12 trillion, according […]
Mehran Kamrava, ‘Triumph and Despair: in Search of Iran’s Islamic Republic’ (Review)
Review of Mehran Kamrava, Triumph and Despair: In Search of Iran’s Islamic Republic (London: Hurst and Co., 2022). Barcelona (Special to Informed Comment) – During […]
Iran: Two Protesters Executed in Grossly Unfair Trials, Several More in Danger (HRW)
Human Rights Watch – (Beirut) – Iranian authorities’ execution of two men in connection with widespread antigovernment protests is a gross miscarriage of justice and […]
One Third of the Food Americans Buy is Wasted, Hurting the Climate and Consumers’ Wallets
By Brian E. Roe, The Ohio State University | – You saw it at Thanksgiving, and you’ll likely see it at your next holiday feast: […]
UN: 11,000 Boys and Girls have been Killed or Wounded in the Yemeni War that the US backed
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – UN News reports that 11,000 boys and girls are estimated to have been killed or wounded by direct violence in […]