By Baher Kamal | (Inter Press Service) | – – ROME (IPS) – Water–everybody talks about it, warns against its growing scarcity, excessive waste, the impact of climate change, the frequent severe droughts and so on. Now, a global action network with over 3,000 partner organisations in 183 countries comes to unveil the dangerous nexus […]
Archives for May 2017
The Mystery of Washington’s Iran Derangement Syndrome
By Danny Sjursen | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – “Everywhere you look, if there is trouble in the region,” Secretary of Defense James Mattis told reporters on a mid-April visit to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, “you find Iran.” I must admit that when I stumbled across that quote it brought up uncomfortable personal memories. East Baghdad, […]
Baghdad and Manchester: Let’s Commemorate ISIL Victims in Both
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – ISIL (ISIS, Daesh) lashed out at the civilian population in Iraq on Tuesday with three bombings and over 60 casualties. With its signature warped sadism, the organization sent a suicide bomber with a truck into a crowded square in the upscale, largely Shiite shopping district of […]
Coal in Death spiral as India cancels 14 gigs, and Solar prices Plummet
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – China and India have knocked the United States off the top spot of the index of best places to invest in renewables. Analysts cite the impact of Trump’s policies in favor of coal and petroleum. Meanwhile, as Trump talks up a return of coal in the […]
If They’re Wrong, the Planet Dies
By Edward Hunt. | ( Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – The Obama administration could have done more to stop climate change. The Trump administration couldn’t have done less. . . . As human activity continues to warm the planet at an alarming rate, the leaders of the United States are failing to confront […]
The rising homegrown terror threat on the right
By Arie Perliger | (The Conversation) | – – The murder in College Park, Maryland of Richard Collins III, an African-American student who had recently been commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army and was days away from his graduation from Bowie State University, underscores the violence of America’s far-right wing. Sean Urbanski, […]
Germany: We Europeans must Depend on Selves, not Trump’s USA
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of Germany, certainly knew what she was doing when she made her otherwise cautious statement. “The times,” she said, “in which we can entirely depend on others, are gone. This, I have experienced in the last few days. We Europeans must take […]
Beautiful A-Bombs and CO2: All the ways a Disturbed Trump could Blow up the World
By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – He’s huge. Outsized. He fills the news hole at any moment of any day. His over-tanned face glows unceasingly in living rooms across America. Never has a president been quite so big. So absolutely monstrous. Or quite so small. He’s our Little Big Man. I know, […]
Is Rouhani’s Reelection a step toward Democracy for Iran?
Ebrahim Deen | (Informed Comment) | – – Hassan Rouhani’s victory in Last Friday’s Iranian presidential election, by a large majority, portents a continuation of the country’s path toward global reengagement, both on a more popular level and in terms of economic and political cooperation. The intensified nature of this electoral campaign does however point […]
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