Informed Comment daily updates (03/02/2024)

 

Aaron Bushnell Sacrificed himself to Stop Gaza Genocide: “I won’t be Complicit” Connecticut (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Despondence, mixed with commitment, courage, and action, can be a starter for epochal change. Aaron Bushnell set himself afire on Sunday, a telling decision by a serving USAF airman, saying that he refused to be complicit in the Gaza genocide. His martyrdom could well make such a contribution […]

Islamophobia: Defending Rutgers’ Center for Security, Race and Rights from Senate Judiciary Committee Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association of North America | Senator Richard Durbin Chair, Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate fax: (202) 228-0400    Senator Lindsay O. Graham Ranking Member, Committee on the Judiciary  United States Senate fax: (202) 224-3808 Dear Senators Durbin and Graham:   We write on behalf of the Middle […]

How Climate Change is Messing up the Ocean’s Biological Clock, a Potential Catastrophe By Frédéric Cyr, Memorial University of Newfoundland | – Every year in the mid-latitudes of the planet, a peculiar phenomenon known as the phytoplankton spring bloom occurs. Visible from space, spectacular large and ephemeral filament-like shades of green and blue are shaped by the ocean currents. The phytoplankton blooms are comprised of a myriad of […]

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