Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Morocco produced 35% of its electricity last year from wind, solar, and hydroelectric sources, putting it on track to its goal of getting 42% from green sources by 2020. It had a further goal of 52% renewables by 2030, but now hopes to go even faster. In contrast, the US […]
Archives for February 2019
Defeating Fascism: What a Danish Woman Imam and Swiss Progressives can teach us
(Waging Nonviolence) – The growth of white supremacy and fascism has been noticeable in a number of countries lately, prompting the question: What can we learn from each other? Each country might find “best practices” elsewhere that could be applied at home, in addition to learning from its own past successes. Americans might be especially […]
Half a Million Dead, $5.9 Trillion Bill: The True Costs of US ‘Global War on Terror’
(Tomdispatch.com) – In September 2001, the Bush administration launched the “Global War on Terror.” Though “global” has long since been dropped from the name, as it turns out, they weren’t kidding. When I first set out to map all the places in the world where the United States is still fighting terrorism so many years […]
French Neo-Nazis Desecrate Jewish Cemetery with Swastikas in Alsace
Strasbourg (AFP) – Around 80 graves have been daubed with swastikas at a Jewish cemetery in eastern France, local officials said, hours ahead of nationwide marches on Tuesday against a rise in anti-Semitic attacks. The damage was discovered on Tuesday morning at a cemetery in the village of Quatzenheim, close to the border with Germany […]
John Legend: “For too long it has been out of balance for progressives to speak up for the rights of Palestinians”
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — American award-winning singer, songwriter, and producer, John Legend, recently spoke out about standing up for human rights for Palestinians while on the “Real Time With Bill Maher” show. Legend appeared on the “Real Time With Bill Maher” show on HBO with American comedian and political commentator Bill Maher, where he discussed […]
Sleepwalking into our Constitutional Crisis in the Age of Trump
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – From Trump’s very inauguration day speech, written for him by the fascist gadfly Steve Bannon and man still without a prom date Stephen Miller, it was apparent that the 45th president was a constitutional crisis waiting to happen. And now, without our realizing it for the most part, the constitutional […]
Resetting the Nuclear Doomsday Clock
(Informed Comment) – Earlier this year the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists reset its famous doomsday clock to 2 minutes to midnight. Though the journal’s concerns about nuclear war and/or climate catastrophe were well taken, they received little media attention beyond some discussion of the perils of pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal. And […]
Over our Heads: Climate Crisis Produces Stationary Catastrophic Weather Systems
By Steve Turton | – Many parts of Australia have suffered a run of severe and, in some cases, unprecedented weather events this summer. One common feature of many of these events – including the Tasmanian heatwave and the devastating Townsville floods – was that they were caused by weather systems that parked themselves in […]
Israeli Anchor on IDF Troops sent to Occupied Palestine: ‘We get back Animals’
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — An Israeli news anchor for Channel 13 stirred controversy, over the weekend, after saying that Israel was turning soldiers into “animals” with its ongoing rule over the occupied West Bank. Israeli news outlets reported that anchor Oshrat Kotler made her comments at the end of a news piece regarding Israeli army soldiers […]
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