By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Three Gorges Group project commenced in July of this year and is expected to be completed and fully streamlined by May 2018. On Sunday, Xinhua reported that state-run China’s Three Gorges Group is building the world’s largest floating solar power plant. The renewable energy project, […]
Archives for December 2017
Exodus of Climate Scientists to France only the Beginning if GOP Guts Grad Education
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – French President Emmanuel Macron has a program he calls MAPA – “Making the Planet Great Again.” His government is offering funding to climate scientists who are facing obstacles in their home countries, to come and work in France. He just managed to lure away 18 high-powered […]
FCC about to Destroy Internet w/out Understanding how it Works
By Erica Portnoy and Jeremy Gillula | ( Electronic Frontier Foundation) | – – Earlier this year nearly 200 Internet engineers and computer scientists sent a letter to the FCC that explained facts about the structure, history, and evolving nature of the Internet. The reasons we laid out in that letter for writing it then […]
African-American areas have “Worst Poverty” in Industrialized World: UN Official
TeleSur | – – Environmental racism, extreme poverty, and disease thrive on a breathtaking scale in U.S. Black communities in the South, shocking a UN investigator. Extreme poverty, environmental degradation and toxic hazards in poor communities in the United States are facing increased international scrutiny following an inspection of rural Alabama communities by a United […]
Christian Palestinians Reject meeting with Mike Pence
IMEMC News | – – Christian Palestinians, along with Muslims, held a protest in front of the historic Church of the Nativity, after Sunday prayers, to express their rejection of US president Donald Trump’s decision to consider Jerusalem to be the capital of Israel. The protesters assured that they would not meet with Trump’s second […]
3 Ways ISIL Terrorism Will Continue even after the end of the “Caliphate”
By Brian Glyn Williams | (Informed Comment) | – – The Destruction of the Dream of Extremist Warfare, 2014-2017 On Saturday the Iraqi prime minister, Haider al Abadi, announced that the last remnants of Iraq territory had been liberated from ISIL and proclaimed “Dear Iraqis, your land has been completely liberated, and your towns and […]
The Difference between Israeli Policy and Turkish: Calling Each other Terrorist State
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – First, Turkish president Tayyip Erdogan gave a speech in the Central Anatolian province of Sivas on Dec. 10, in which he said, “Israel is a state of occupation and a terror state . . . [Turkey] will not leave Jerusalem to the consciousness of a child-killer […]
If the Trump Revolution Is Possible, So Is a Progressive One
By John Feffer | ( Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – The increased tempo of the GOP’s snatch and grab in recent days suggests that they’re feeling a certain desperation. Don’t kid yourself: 2016 was a revolutionary year in the United States. Yes, I know, the United States is a deeply conservative country. Americans […]
Smoking Gun: Did the Russians admit to Interference in the US Election?
By Don Van Atta | (Informed Comment) | – – A little-noticed Russian diplomatic approach to the US on 17 July amounted to an official admission by the Russian Federation that it interfered in the 2016 US election through cyberwar techniques including hacking and spreading fake news. Those facts are now widely known, but some […]
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