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Archives for February 2019

Climate Change
Answering the Attacks on the Green New Deal: *Not* Implementing it is too Expensive

Answering the Attacks on the Green New Deal: *Not* Implementing it is too Expensive

John Feffer

Compared to Asia and Europe, the United States is a transportation embarrassment

Featured
Racism v. Racist:  Why Brenda Lawrence and Rashida Tlaib are Right

Racism v. Racist: Why Brenda Lawrence and Rashida Tlaib are Right

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – As I noted yesterday, in Michael Cohen’s opening statement during his public testimony to the House Oversight and Reform Committee, he alleged that Donald Trump is a racist, saying: ‘ He once asked me if I could name a country run by a black person that wasn’t a “shithole . […]

Climate Change
Carbon farming: how smart agriculture can both feed people and fight climate change

Carbon farming: how smart agriculture can both feed people and fight climate change

The Conversation

Peat soils are immensely carbon-rich

Climate Change
Britain sees Hottest Winter Day in Recorded History as Global Heating Accelerates

Britain sees Hottest Winter Day in Recorded History as Global Heating Accelerates

AFP

Northern Europe’s ‘Year with no Winter’

Iran
Iran’s Religious Leaders Keep Foreign Minister Zarif on to pursue European Diplomacy

Iran’s Religious Leaders Keep Foreign Minister Zarif on to pursue European Diplomacy

AFP

Zarif has battled hardline resistance in parliament to new legislation tackling money laundering and terrorism financing

Donald Trump
Top Six Pieces of Dirt Cohen Dished on Trump in his Opening Statement

Top Six Pieces of Dirt Cohen Dished on Trump in his Opening Statement

Juan Cole

“He once asked me if I could name a country run by a black person that wasn’t a “shithole . ”

Venezuela
The Trojan Horse of US “Aid” to Venezuela

The Trojan Horse of US “Aid” to Venezuela

H. Patricia Hynes

The arc of U.S. militarism across the 20th century and into the 21st is neither moral nor does it bend toward justice.

censorship
In Middle East, Impunity for Human Rights Abuses reigned in 2018: Amnesty

In Middle East, Impunity for Human Rights Abuses reigned in 2018: Amnesty

Juan Cole

Beirut (AFP) – “The crackdown on civil society actors and political opponents increased significantly in Egypt, Iran and Saudi Arabia,” the rights watchdog said in its annual regional report. “Is it acceptable for activists to undergo arbitrary detention, torture, sexual harassment … and even enforced disappearances simply for expressing their opinions in a peaceful way,” […]

Inequality
The Survival of the Richest:  The Real Wall

The Survival of the Richest: The Real Wall

Nomi Prins

Money keeps flowing upward through banks and speculation, while the economic lives of those not at the top have largely remained stagnant

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