Informed Comment daily updates (11/16/2024)

 

Gaza as Israel’s AI-Driven High-Tech Genocide: UN Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A Special Committee of the United Nations Office of the High Commission on Human Rights has issued a new report on Israeli actions in Gaza concluding that they fit the profile of genocide. The report says, “The developments in this report lead the Special Committee to conclude that the policies […]

Medicare Advantage: A By-the-Numbers Look at This Profit-Seeking Healthcare Scam Proponents claimed it would lower costs and improve health care for seniors. It has achieved neither of those goals; instead, it has become a wildly profitable scheme for private insurance giants. By Emma Curchin, Brandon Novick and Peter Hart | – ( Commondreams.org ) – The quasi-privatized system called “Medicare Advantage,” otherwise known as Part […]

Netanyahu and Trump: The Tag Team from a Fascist Hell Both Trump and Netanyahu rely on a violent cult of tradition to advance their nationalist agendas and push a global system of apartheid, argues Yoav Litvin. ( The New Arab ) – In what war criminal and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called “history’s greatest comeback,” sexual predator, game show host and former Wrestlemania idol […]

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Informed Comment daily updates (10/24/2024)

 

The Yemen Model and Failed US Middle East Policy Review of Alexandra Stark, “The Yemen Model: Why U.S. Policy Has Failed in the Middle East” (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2024). Munich, Germany (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) –– Yemen goes through a civil war that does not end, frequent cholera outbreaks, and acute malnutrition among children. These days, however, the southern […]

With northern Gaza Desperate and Hungry, Israel’s Actions are shaking the World Order to its Core By Tristan Dunning, Macquarie University; Martin Kear, University of Sydney; and Shannon Brincat, University of the Sunshine Coast | – (The Conversation) – While the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar could have provided an off-ramp for the conflict in Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ongoing vows of “total victory” make this seem unlikely. […]

Time to look at history from the point of view of the arms industry? How did we end up in a situation where there is increasing talk of an emerging Third World War? A look back at a century in which the arms industry repeatedly found enemy images, along with the appropriate triggers, and in the meantime perfected its arsenal. Time to look at history from the point of […]

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