Tiffin, Ohio (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – April 30th marks the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War’s end when Vietnamese tanks rolled into Saigon, […]
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Israel’s Claims to be a Democracy ring Hollow as Amnesty Finds it an Apartheid State
By Nasim Ahmed | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Amnesty International became the latest human rights group to label Israel an apartheid state. […]
If We heat the World 1.5°C (2.7° F.), Essential Coral Reefs are all but Doomed
By Adele Dixon, Maria Beger, Peter Kalmus, and Scott F. Heron | – Coral reefs have long been regarded as one of the earliest and […]
Apartheid 2.0: Amnesty International Joins Chorus condemning Israeli rule over stateless Palestinians
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli state has won the trifecta of condemnation by major human rights organizations, as, on Tuesday, Amnesty International joined […]
How Green Buildings can boost Productivity, well-being and Health of Workers
By Md Sazan Rahman | – Most people now recognize the energy savings benefits of green buildings. These buildings use less water, energy and other […]
Women have had the Right to Choose in America for a Large Part of its History
Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment) – Did you know? …Abortion has been legal for a large part of US history and was significant in […]
America’s Two Pandemics: And How They Mixed and Matched
( Tomdispatch.com ) – Imagine that you were experiencing all of this (and by this, I mean our lives right now) as if it were […]
How the Ukraine Crisis is Changing Biden’s Mideast Policy: The Rise and Rise of Qatar
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Russia’s massing of over 100,000 troops around Ukraine has provoked a diplomatic and military crisis, but also a potential energy […]
Jerusalem Christians: ‘We shrunk from 20% to 2% of population due to Israeli violence’
By by Raseef22 | – ( Globalvoices.org) – As tensions escalate in Jerusalem in the wake of Israel’s latest wave of evicting Palestinians from the […]
“Even If You Go to the Skies, We’ll Find You”: LGBT People in Afghanistan After the Taliban Takeover
(Human Rights Watch ) – Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in Afghanistan, and others who do not conform to rigid gender norms, have […]