Review of Peter Schwartzstein, The Heat and the Fury: On the Frontlines of Climate Violence (London: Footnote Press, 2024). Munich, Germany (Special to Informed Comment; […]
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The Other Way of Celebrating Armistice Day: Soldiers and Vets for Peace
Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment) – The first Armistice Day November 11, 1919 was a celebration of the moment – the 11th hour of […]
Protesting Rapper’s Video Foretelling Iranian Regime’s Future Leads To Arrest As Fans Fear For His Life
( RFE?RL ) – Toomaj Salehi’s lyrical support for protesters in Iran has landed him behind bars before, but this time the popular rapper’s fortune-telling […]
The Intolerable Price You Pay: A Civilian Addresses American Veterans on Veterans Day
By Kelly Denton-Borhaug | – [Denton-Borhaug will give a version of this talk virtually to Veterans for Peace Chapter 102 at a Reclaim Armistice Day […]
The GOP Clown Car Crashes and Burns, but Nikki Haley didn’t get the Message, calls for Warnock to be “Deported”
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Trump era brought to the fore in the Republican Party an assortment of Nazi militiamen, internet trolls masquerading as […]
Egypt has 60,000 prisoners like jailed dying Arab Spring Dissident Alaa Abdelfattah
By Osama Gaweesh | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Egyptian activist and blogger Alaa Abdelfattah wrote a book with the title You have […]
Egypt’s Systemic Greenwashing is sabotaging COP27 before it Begins
By Sydney Allen | – ( Globalvoices.org ) – The largest international environmental conference, COP27, is set to kick off on November 6 in Sharm […]
In first nationwide Election since Roe was Overturned, Voters opt to protect Abortion Access
By Linda C. McClain, Boston University and Nicole Huberfeld, Boston University | – The first major election since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade […]
Biden Holds Red Wave to a Ripple, as Trump Loses Big Time in Midterms
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Over the past 40 years, midterm elections have typically been quiet affairs in which only 38% to 40% of voters […]
Israel: The Right-Wing Netanyahu is Back but can he Govern with Far, Far Right “Allies”?
By Guy Ziv, American University School of International Service | – Israel’s political magician has done it again. Having been turned out of office in […]