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Archives for July 2014

Climate Change
Green Energy Robin Hood:  India Doubles Tax on Coal to Fund Solar and Wind

Green Energy Robin Hood: India Doubles Tax on Coal to Fund Solar and Wind

contributors

By Smiti Mittal 22,000 MW solar power capacity by 2022, a dedicated national-level program for promoting wind energy generation, implementation of the world’s largest solar power projects (with capacity of up to 4,000 MW), covering canals with solar panels, implementing dedicated transmission corridors for distributing electricity from renewable energy projects, and cleaning one of the […]

Featured
From Kerry to Selena Gomez & Rihanna, Israel's Claims of Precision, Compassion are Dissed

From Kerry to Selena Gomez & Rihanna, Israel’s Claims of Precision, Compassion are Dissed

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole You always wonder where John Kerry the anti-Vietnam War activist went, who compared the US campaigns in Southeast Asia to the predations of the Mongols. It turns out he is still in there somewhere, just not allowed to appear before the cameras. But in a ‘hot-mic’ moment on Fox on Sunday, Kerry […]

Climate Change
Ignore the Smears:  Germany's Green Energy is 1/3 of its Power, Price Falling, Coal Down

Ignore the Smears: Germany’s Green Energy is 1/3 of its Power, Price Falling, Coal Down

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By Roy L Hales Originally Published on the ECOreport Germany’s renewable sector (RE) is flexing its muscles, with solar production up 28% and wind up 19% during the first half of 2014. As a result, the renewable sector accounted for 31% of the nation’s electricity. If this trend continues, this may be the third year […]

Apartheid
Dodging Israeli Bombs in Gaza:  A Personal Journal of Survival

Dodging Israeli Bombs in Gaza: A Personal Journal of Survival

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By Omar Ghraieb Gaza – Every night I seem to think it’s the worst night, until I go through the next one. I got so used to the house shaking and moving from the consecutive blasts that it now feels weird when everything is still. Flashing lights, the ground shaking all around, that’s my house […]

Dissent
Noise and Silence in Israel/Palestine Today

Noise and Silence in Israel/Palestine Today

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By Shachar Pinsker This is a rather long and not very happy post. You wouldn’t find here much that is new in terms of facts or even analysis of what’s going on in Israel/Palestine. It’s just a personal account of, and some reflections on one eventful night around here. If you are reading it, please […]

Christianity
Mosul w/out Christians for First time in 1,900 Years as Radical Fundamentalists Threaten Minorities

Mosul w/out Christians for First time in 1,900 Years as Radical Fundamentalists Threaten Minorities

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole For the first time in nearly 2000 years, there are virtually no Christians in the city of Mosul in northern Iraq. The community is reported to have fled en masse after the so-called “Islamic State” (IS) of radical fundamentalists warned them that they faced the choice of converting to Islam, paying a […]

Immigration
The Colbert Report: “Questionable Compassion for Child Immigrants”

The Colbert Report: “Questionable Compassion for Child Immigrants”

contributors

The Colbert Report: “Questionable Compassion for Child Immigrants” The Colbert ReportGet More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,The Colbert Report on Facebook,Video Archive ————-

Apartheid
Gaza: The Israeli Army's Unlawful Targeting Practices are bad for Children

Gaza: The Israeli Army’s Unlawful Targeting Practices are bad for Children

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By Bill Van Esveld, Human Rights Watch The Israel Defense Force has an answer to the shelling yesterday that killed four children near the Gaza City port. At a media briefing yesterday, an IDF official reportedly said the attack had targeted an “identified Hamas structure,” and that Israeli forces had misidentified the boys as “fleeing […]

Eastern Europe
Obama needs Europe in responding to MH17 Crash, but NSA Spying a Bar

Obama needs Europe in responding to MH17 Crash, but NSA Spying a Bar

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By Simon Reich, Rutgers University The tragic circumstances surrounding the downing of Malaysian Airlines’ flight MH17 remain unclear. The three parties who might be responsible – the Ukrainians, the Russians and the rebels – all blame each other. All possess, or have the capacity to possess, the Buk surface-to-air missile system that reputedly brought the […]

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