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Archives for May 2019

China
You'll Soon be Driving an Electric Car, but it will be Made in China and You won't be Great Again

You’ll Soon be Driving an Electric Car, but it will be Made in China and You won’t be Great Again

The Conversation

By Jack Barkenbus | – The electric vehicle revolution is coming, but it won’t be driven by the U.S. Instead, China will be at the forefront. My research on EVs, dating back a decade, convinces me that this global transformation in mobility, from petroleum-fueled vehicles to electric ones, will come sooner than later. The shift […]

Iran
Bolton in Wonderland: Will his Iran Warmongering be too Much even for Trump?

Bolton in Wonderland: Will his Iran Warmongering be too Much even for Trump?

John Feffer

(Foreign Policy in Focus) – The only upside to Bolton’s dangerous aggression toward Iran is that it may put him too far out in front of Trump. Only 70 days into his presidency, Ronald Reagan faced an assassination attempt. While he was in surgery and the vice president was mid-flight over Texas, Secretary of State […]

Environment
Our CO2, Pesticides & Plastics Threaten a Million Plant and Animal Species with Extinction

Our CO2, Pesticides & Plastics Threaten a Million Plant and Animal Species with Extinction

contributors

By Mike Shanahan (China Dialogue ) – Major UN report warns 1 million species are at risk of extinction, with key threats to China Nature loss is accelerating worldwide at an unprecedented rate, with grave impacts for human wellbeing, according to a major report approved by more than 130 of the world’s governments. The report […]

Featured
Top Ten differences between the Iraq War and Trump's Proposed Iran War

Top Ten differences between the Iraq War and Trump’s Proposed Iran War

Juan Cole

1. Iraq is 168,754 mi² and Iran is 636,400 mi²; that is, Iran is geographically 3.77 times bigger than Iraq, almost 4 times as big. 2. Iraq’s population when invaded was 26 million. Iran’s population today is 81 million. 3. General Eric Shinseki testified before Congress prior to Bush’s invasion that based on the US […]

Iran
Are they Journalists or Sheep?: Bolton Orchestrates the Press for Iran War (Cartoon)

Are they Journalists or Sheep?: Bolton Orchestrates the Press for Iran War (Cartoon)

Paul Jamiol

Courtesy Jamiol’s World

Houthi
The New Drone Wars: Houthis hit Saudi Oil Pumping Stations, avenging Riyadh's Strikes on Sana'a

The New Drone Wars: Houthis hit Saudi Oil Pumping Stations, avenging Riyadh’s Strikes on Sana’a

Middle East Monitor

The security spokesperson for the Presidency of the State Security in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia announced that Aramco oil pumping stations in the provinces of Al Duwadimi and Afif in Riyadh were attacked. The Minister of Energy, Industry and Mineral Resources stressed that the “terrorist attack” targeted two pumping stations for a pipeline, pointing […]

Israel/ Palestine
In attack on Free Speech, Trump Admin. Bars Entry to Palestinian Activist Hanan Ashrawi

In attack on Free Speech, Trump Admin. Bars Entry to Palestinian Activist Hanan Ashrawi

Maan News Agency

US rejects PLO Ashrawi’s visa request, no reason given RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Hanan Ashrawi, Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) Executive Committee Member, announced on Monday evening, that her United States visa application has been rejected. Ashrawi posted a series of tweets, providing a list of reasons for her visa’s refusal, “It is official! My US visa […]

censorship
How Democracy Dies:  Big Brother is Erasing the Public Record

How Democracy Dies: Big Brother is Erasing the Public Record

Karen J. Greenberg

The Nobel Prize-winning Czech author Milan Kundera began his 1979 novel, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, by describing two photographs. In the first, two men are standing side by side, a Czech nationalist later executed for his views and the country’s Communist ruler. In the second, the dissenter is gone, airbrushed out. Just the […]

Featured
Rashida Tlaib's Palestinian Theology of Good Samaritanism and Redemption

Rashida Tlaib’s Palestinian Theology of Good Samaritanism and Redemption

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) gave an interview to Yahoo News Sunday. It is a wideranging interview, discussing her hopes that Trump is impeached (though she says she has toned that down because House majority leader Nancy Pelosi told her to concentrate on representing her district; she says she doesn’t want […]

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