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The Iran NIE has elicited a range of emotions in those opposed to the Bush administration's policies from gloating to discreet celebration. In the minds of many, it's like V-Day: Let the church bells peal, kiss a girl in Times Square. Others, particularly Iranian commentators located in the US, are considerably less sanguine. They fear,…

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - The Houthi movement that rules northern Yemen announced Tuesday that it had again targeted a …

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - The extremist, fascist government of Binyamin Netanyahu continues to press its monstrous, illegal and most …

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - My mother was a Lutheran and the Coles were Catholics, though my grandfather fell away …

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - The UN reports figures from the Gaza Ministry of Health as of Friday: "between 7 …

Take a Leaf from the Book of George H. W. Bush

(Special to Informed Comment; Feature) - Is there a scale that can measure the value of 7,000 dead Palestinian children …

Review of Hans Kundnani, Eurowhiteness: Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project. London: Hurst & Co., 2023. Munich (Special …

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - Back in mid-October, a controversy broke out about a blast on the grounds of the …

Article: Tomgram: Juan Cole, Greenwashing the Planet - A recent opinion poll rocked the world of the Big Oil lobbyists in their proverbial thousand-dollar suits and alligator shoes. The Pew Research Center found that 37% of Americans now feel that fighting the climate crisis should be the number one priority of President Joe Biden and Congress, and another 34% put it among their highest priorities, even if they didnt rank it first[...]