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Archives for April 2019

Green Transportation
Saudi Aramco Worried Electric Cars 'Could Result in Substantial Costs'

Saudi Aramco Worried Electric Cars ‘Could Result in Substantial Costs’

Climate Home News

The world’s largest oil producer made more money than Apple and Alphabet combined last year, but the company sees litigation and clean tech as threats

Featured
Trump called Libya's Hiftar, Backed Warlord's Press to Conquer whole Country

Trump called Libya’s Hiftar, Backed Warlord’s Press to Conquer whole Country

Juan Cole

President contradicted his secretary of defense

Archaeology
Medieval Crusaders in Levant Married, Recruited Locals, DNA shows

Medieval Crusaders in Levant Married, Recruited Locals, DNA shows

contributors

In the pitt, three were Europeans, four were Near Easterners, and the two had European ancestry but with less West European markers.

Climate Change
Going Green has to be Systemic & Legislated: "Personal Responsibility" is a Corporate Dodge

Going Green has to be Systemic & Legislated: “Personal Responsibility” is a Corporate Dodge

Jill Richardson

If environmental solutions aren’t systemic, living green will always mean going against the grain — and usually failing.

Colonialism
How Colonialists Led the Way to our Environmental Crisis of Over-Exploitation

How Colonialists Led the Way to our Environmental Crisis of Over-Exploitation

The Conversation

Our understanding of colonialism is often limited to simple ideas about what we think colonialism looked like in the past

Corruption
The Seychelles Plot:  Mueller on the UAE Role in Russian Influence-Peddling with Trump and Kushner

The Seychelles Plot: Mueller on the UAE Role in Russian Influence-Peddling with Trump and Kushner

Juan Cole

The Mueller report sheds further light on the infamous Seychelles meeting in January, 2017, which appears to have aimed at establishing a back channel for the Trump administration to the circle of Russian President Vladimir Putin, brokered by Mohammed Bin Zayed of the United Arab Emirates. That is, this story is not about pre-election collusion […]

Sudan
How Women are leading the Sudanese Revolution

How Women are leading the Sudanese Revolution

Global Voices

In 2017, 24 women were arrested for wearing trousers

Christianity
Why Good Friday was Dangerous for Jews in the Middle Ages and how that Changed

Why Good Friday was Dangerous for Jews in the Middle Ages and how that Changed

The Conversation

By Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski | – As Christians observe Good Friday they will remember, with devotion and prayer, the death of Jesus on the Cross. It is a day of solemnity in which Christians give thanks for their salvation made possible by the suffering of Jesus. They prepare for rejoicing on Easter Sunday, when the resurrection […]

Education
De-Funding the Great American School System for the 1%

De-Funding the Great American School System for the 1%

Belle Chesler

(Tomdispatch.com) – Three weeks ago, I sat in a cramped conference room in the large public high school where I teach in Beaverton, Oregon. I was listening to the principal deliver a scripted PowerPoint presentation on the $35 million budget deficit our district faces in the upcoming school year. Teachers and staff members slumped in […]

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