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Will Israel be held accountable? In conversation with the new UN Special Rapporteur in Palestine
By Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – The position of the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of […]
Is Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Spying on Most Americans?
By Farrah Hassen | – ( Otherwords.org ) – Growing up in the Southern California suburbs, government surveillance never worried me. But my Syrian-American parents […]
5 technologies that will help make the food system carbon neutral
By Rene Van Acker, University of Guelph; Evan Fraser, University of Guelph; and Lenore Newman, University of The Fraser Valley | – Globally, about one-third […]
Dumping Russian Gas: 4 European countries seek 65 GW Offshore Wind by 2030, as EU Pledges $314 bn. for Green Energy
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Anyone who follows the climate emergency and extreme weather events would think the serial catastrophes of the past couple years […]
Republican Mainstreaming of White Supremacy Fuels Extremist Violence like the Racist Massacre in Buffalo
Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – “All race politics is bad, all race politics is poison — it erases people, it dehumanizes them. Race politics […]
Climate Emergency: 2022 Drought in Western US the Harbinger of a hotter, thirstier Atmosphere
By Imtiaz Rangwala, University of Colorado Boulder | – Much of the western U.S. has been in the grip of an unrelenting drought since early […]
Where Are the Men? No More Bystander Boys in the Post-Roe Era
By Robert Lipsyte | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – For 50 years now, people have told desperate, heart-breaking stories about what it was like to […]
George W. Bush denounces “the decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq — I mean, Ukraine”
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Michael Williams at the Dallas Morning News reports on George W. Bush’s speech at his presidential center at Southern Methodist […]
Israel-Palestine: Supreme Injustice and Counting the Omer
( Traveling Twins ) – As we celebrate the annual Lag BaOmer pilgrimage to Mount Meron in Israel this week– the 33rd day of the […]