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Trump reinvents the Portuguese Empire with Plan to make Hormuz US Territory
11+ hour, 20+ min ago (656+ words) Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump said in a speech on Saturday that he wants to make the Strait of Hormuz part of the United States. Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Kazem Gharibabadi replied, “Trump says he will soon declare the Strait…...
Corruption: Big Oil Buys Congress Lawmakers
14+ hour, 34+ min ago (527+ words) © 2026 Informed Comment ( Otherwords ) – The 2026 heatwave is a global phenomenon, inflicting extreme temperatures on billions of people from the United States to Europe and South Asia. Extreme heat is deadly. In Europe, an estimated 10,000 people have died from heat this summer,…...
Calculated Deception: How Israel uses Diplomacy to buy Time for Gaza's Destruction
14+ hour, 57+ min ago (251+ words) © 2026 Informed Comment Middle East Monitor 08/16/2026 This grim scene serves as a harrowing microcosm of Israel’s war on Gaza: a war that not only slaughters entire bloodlines in single strokes of industrial scale of violence, but meticulously ensures that even the…...
Afghanistan: Taliban Tout Peace, Women Still Suffer
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (647+ words) © 2026 Informed Comment By Kaweh Kerami, Durham University and Kambaiz Rafi, University of Central Asia (The Conversation) – Five years on from seizing power in Kabul on August 15 2021 and consolidating its hold through the whole of Afghanistan, the Taliban claims to have…...
Mamdani merits a 9/11 Observance Role: Shia Were al-Qaeda's Victims Too
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (589+ words) © 2026 Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The phony controversy cooked up by rightwingers over Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s participation in the upcoming anniversary mourning the September 11, 2001 al-Qaeda attack on the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York is…...
With Crocodile Moats for Palestinians, Zionism drops its Mask
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (589+ words) © 2026 Informed Comment The latest example of this dynamic came when Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir proposed surrounding Ketziot prison with a moat of Nile crocodiles (Crocodylus niloticus) to guard Palestinian prisoners. Who knows, maybe the crocs will be…...
A Planet Screaming at Us to Pay Attention
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (116+ words) © 2026 Informed Comment ( Tom Engelhardt Substack ) – There should be screaming headlines about it every day! Yes, every day! Our planet, the only one we live on (despite Elon Musk’s urge to go to Mars), is distinctly going down, down, down (at…...
Netanyahu rejects Trump’s Gaza roadmap – History tells us Israel may be planning to Stay
3+ day, 13+ hour ago (886+ words) © 2026 Informed Comment By Anne Irfan, UCL (The Conversation) – The recent decision by Benjamin Netanyahu to reject the Board of Peace plan for Gaza sponsored by the US president Donald Trump is concerning – but is hardly surprising. The 15-point roadmap, published…...
Yale Study: Medicare for All Would Save Over 114,000 Lives and $1 Trillion a Year
3+ day, 13+ hour ago (551+ words) © 2026 Informed Comment ( Commondreams.org ) – Previous research has shown that shifting the United States to a Medicare for All system could save roughly 68,000 lives and $650 billion per year, but a new study by experts at Yale University suggests the savings would…...
Our Wars on Each Other and our War on the Planet
4+ day, 13+ hour ago (64+ words) © 2026 Informed Comment A Planet Heading for the Boiling Point? And in that context, imagine what our grandchildren and great-grandchildren will think about the fact that nearly 50% of American voters (twice!) elected Donald J. Trump, the planet-destroyer-in-chief, as president of the…...