Bob Scheer’s long interview with me, “Where is the Middle East Heading?” is available at ScheerPost. I’m providing an excerpt below, but be sure to […]
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Their Germs and Guns, our Steel: Canvassers Risk it All for America
( Tomdispatch.com ) – “Look, folks, the air quality is in the red zone today. The EPA says that means people with lung or heart […]
Did Trump blackmail Sudan into Recognizing Israel by offering to remove Khartoum from Terror List?
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdulla Hamdok announced Monday that the US had agreed to remove his country from the list of […]
Israelis have Destroyed 1 mn Palestinian Olive Trees; this Month, they’re at it Again
Belfast (Special to Informed Comment) – In the village of Jaba in Bethlehem district this month, Israeli squatter settlers chopped down and destroyed 300 olive […]
In the Midst of an Epochal American Eviction Crisis, Can we Wait for Congressional Talks?
How should progressives stand on the issue of the second Covid relief bill being negotiated between Speaker Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Mnuchin? What can be […]
Is the Rising Generation of Unchurched Secularists pointing to a post-Trump Progressive America?
Someday, the coronavirus tragedy will be gone, wiped out by scientific vaccines. And Donald Trump will be just an unpleasant memory, an absurd reminder of […]
China grows nearly 5%; Will historians look back at Trump’s disastrous Pandemic Response as the Moment Beijing Overtook the US?
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Even if Trump loses, he can go on screwing up the country for two and a half months thereafter, and […]
With UN Embargo on Arms Sales to Iran Lapsing, Will Russia take on US to reap Bonanza?
Belgrade (Special to Informed Comment) – As of today, the 2007 UN Security Council embargo on conventional arms shipments to Iran expired. At least from […]
Trump’s Body Count in Historical Perspective: Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths on his Hands
Alexandria, Va. (Special to Informed Comment) – Many presidential biographies are somewhere between pseudo profound and pure fluff, arguing presidents be judged by Hollywood-like silliness […]
Can America escape the cave of Trump’s Quirky Isolationism?
( Tomdispatch.com ) – The so-called Age of Trump is also an age of instantly forgotten bestselling books, especially ones purporting to provide the inside […]