Tampa (AFP) – Global warming is melting ice in Antarctica faster than ever before — about six times more per year now than 40 years ago — leading to increasingly high sea levels worldwide, scientists warned Monday. Already, Antarctic melting has raised global sea levels more than half an inch (1.4 centimeters) between 1979 and […]
Archives for January 2019
If Trump declares an Emergency, Can Congress or Courts Strike it Down?
By Chris Edelson | – If President Donald Trump declares a national emergency to fund some portion of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border without congressional authorization, what would happen next? Would the courts step in? What is Congress’ role? As I explain in my book “Emergency Presidential Power,” presidents generally claim emergency power two […]
How Not to Build a “Great, Great Wall:” A Timeline of Border Fortification
By Greg Grandin – New York ( Tomdispatch.com ) – The point was less to actually build “the wall” than to constantly announce the building of the wall. “We started building our wall. I’m so proud of it,” Donald Trump tweeted. “What a thing of beauty.” [Note: Today’s author, the superb Greg Grandin, has written […]
Is an al-Qaeda Front dominating 3 Million People in North Syria?
By Michel MOUTOT | – Paris (AFP) – The jihadist group now controlling Idlib province in northwest Syria claims to have broken with Al-Qaeda, but analysts say that despite several rebrandings there’s no sign it has changed its stripes. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) sealed its hold on Idlib last week after signing a ceasefire with […]
Islamophobia versus World History: Rediscovering Marshall Hodgson
Santa Cruz (Informed Comment) – Published in 1974, Marshall Hodgson’s The Venture of Islam was a watershed moment in the study of Islam. By locating the history of Islamic societies in a global perspective, Hodgson challenged the orientalist paradigms that had stunted the development of Islamic studies and provided an alternative approach to world history. […]
Who’s Running John Bolton to Start a war with Iran? He worried even Mad Dog Mattis
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – National Security Adviser John Bolton lied his face off when he told Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on his recent Mideast junket that he was sure Iran’s leaders are dedicated to acquiring deliverable nuclear weapons. Nuclear security expert Joe Cirincione shredded Bolton over his false assertion, which is contradicted by […]
Trump: “We’ll Devastate Turkey Economically” if it Hits Syrian Kurds
Washington, DC (AFP) – President Donald Trump warned Turkey on Sunday of economic devastation if it attacks Kurdish forces in the wake of the US troop pullout from Syria, while also urging the Kurds not to “provoke” Ankara. Trump took to Twitter to reveal some of his latest thoughts in the slow drip-drip of information […]
Iraq welcomes Iran Foreign Minister after Pompeo, denounces US Sanctions as “Illegal”
Baghdad, Iraq | AFP | – Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohammad Ali al-Hakim (R) receives his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif, in Baghdad on January 13, 2019 Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif met with his Iraqi counterpart in Baghdad on Sunday for wide-ranging talks, including on US sanctions against Tehran. The visit came just days […]
No More Wars for Oil? Wind & Solar will reduce Energy-Related Conflicts
Renewables Security The global energy transition and the shift to renewables from fossil fuels is likely to reduce energy-related conflicts, says a report published by the Global Commission on the Geopolitics of Energy Transformation. The transition will “help redraw the geopolitical map of the 21st century,” as the supply of energy will no longer be […]
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