Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The World Cup, disputed territory and green energy are three of the things that increasingly make the world go round, […]
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French-Algerian War: 60 Years on, what is behind France’s reconciliation Agenda?
By Jonathan Lewis, Bangor University | – (The Conversation) – If you cross the Seine in the centre of Paris at the iconic Pont Saint-Michel […]
Still the Other America: The Scandal of Poverty in the Richest Nation on Earth
( Tomdispatch.com ) – Ours is an ever more unequal world, even if that subject is ever less attended to in this country. In his […]
Iran: Police fire on some of the Thousands of Demonstrators Commemorating 40th day after Mahsa Amini’s Death
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Wednesday was the fortieth day after the death of the Kurdish young woman, Mahsa “Zhina” Amini, 22, in the custody […]
Ukraine is Perfect for Wind Power, which would Help it and Europe Escape Russian Fossil Gas Blackmail
Buffalo, NY (Special to Informed Comment) – Until recently, the reasons for Europeans to switch the sourcing of electricity from coal, methane (“natural”) gas and […]
Palestinian Gaza’s Food System has been Stretched to Breaking Point by Israel
By Georgina McAllister, Coventry University | – “Control oil, and you control nations; control food and you control people.” This aphorism, often attributed to Henry […]
The Fossil Free Research Movement is taking Universities by Storm
By Nick Engelfried | – ( Waging Nonviolence ) – When over 40 Cambridge students and academics occupied the elite U.K. university’s BP Institute earlier […]
Israel’s Racism Controversy over the “Problematic” “Arab Womb.” Should Palestinian-Israelis be fined for Having Children?
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Adnan Abu Aamer writing at the pan-Arab newspaper Arabi 21, reviews the controversy roiling the Palestinian-Israeli community, over a physician’s […]
Solar Panels are the Cheapest Energy in World History, but they Can be Even more Efficient and Inexpensive
By Renate Egan, UNSW Sydney | – The cost of turning sunlight into electricity has fallen more than 90% over the last decade. Solar is […]
My War Never Ends
By Chris Hedges | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – As this century began, I was writing War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, my […]