Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The European Centre for Development Policy Management has issued a new report on the threats of human-caused climate change to […]
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Plastic is Climate Change in a Bottle – So let’s put a Cap on It
By Jack Marley, The Conversation | – (The Conversation) – Plastic pollution and climate change have common culprits – and similar solutions. The penultimate round […]
Columbia Students are Sick at Heart, just as we were in ’68
Mark Rudd ( Waging Nonviolence ) – What is the ethical response to witnessing a great moral crime? Turn away and allow oneself to be […]
Top Ways MAGA and Right Wing Zionism Converge, and Why Smotrich is Embracing Trump
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Going back to the late nineteenth century, Zionism has had a complex and storied history, and there have been many […]
Ukraine, Israel, and the Incoherence of U.S. Foreign Policy
( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – The process of crafting congressional legislation is often likened to sausage-making. Best not to look behind the scenes […]
The Right is weaponizing Antisemitism to Distract from Israel’s Atrocities and Smear Campus Protests
By Helen Benedict ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Helicopters have been throbbing overhead for days now. Nights, too. Police are swarming the streets of Broadway, many […]
I was Arrested at Columbia University in 1968: I am Cheering on the Students of Today
New York (Special to Informed Comment) – Earlier this week Columbia University started suspending the students who refused to leave the encampment they built to […]
This is Why the Students are Protesting: Eyes on Israel’s Killing Fields in Gaza
Bayreuth, Germany (Special to Informed Comment- Feature) – Lisa Hajjar has compared what is happening in Gaza to the Killing Fields of Cambodia. Yet where […]
Birding in Gaza amid a Nightmare of War
( Tomdispatch.com ) – He’s a funny little chap: a sharp dresser with a sleek grey jacket, a white waistcoat, red shorts, and a small […]
“Intifada” in Arabic just means Uprising or Mass Protest; it is used for the Jewish Warsaw Uprising
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A key feature of American bigotry toward people from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and toward Muslims more […]