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Archives for September 2019

Climate Change
World's Largest offshore Windfarm to power 1 mn British Homes & other Good Climate News

World’s Largest offshore Windfarm to power 1 mn British Homes & other Good Climate News

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Hanna Ziady at CNN Business reports that just next year, in 2020, the world’s largest offshore wind farm will open 75 miles off the eastern, Yorkshire coast of Britain. Hornsea I alone will power 1 million homes. Britain, with a population of 66 million, has 27 million households. It has […]

Constitution
Trump’s Ukraine Plotting Has Been Happening in Plain Sight. So Why Didn’t We See It?

Trump’s Ukraine Plotting Has Been Happening in Plain Sight. So Why Didn’t We See It?

ProPublica

It’s not just that there’s a lot to pay attention to.

Constitution
Founders: Removal from office is not the only purpose of impeachment

Founders: Removal from office is not the only purpose of impeachment

The Conversation

By Clark D. Cunningham | – As Congress moves toward a possible formal impeachment of President Donald Trump, they should consider words spoken at the Constitutional Convention, when the Founders explained that impeachment was intended to have many important purposes, not just removing a president from office. A critical debate took place on July 20, […]

censorship
With outbreak of New Demonstrations, Egyptian Authorities warn Foreign Journalists not to do their Jobs

With outbreak of New Demonstrations, Egyptian Authorities warn Foreign Journalists not to do their Jobs

Brian Whitaker

(Al-Bab.com) – The Egyptian authorities have issued a notice to accredited foreign journalists based in Cairo. Basically it seeks to restrict their reporting of demonstrations by demanding compliance with some rather bizarre “professional standards” — presumably with the threat of expulsion if they disobey. Here is the text: The State Information Service calls upon Correspondents […]

Climate Crisis
As humans burn fossil fuels, global sea level is rising 2x the rate of the 20th century

As humans burn fossil fuels, global sea level is rising 2x the rate of the 20th century

The Conversation

By Cassandra Brooks | – The U.N.‘s climate panel report released Sept. 25 makes crystal clear that the planet’s oceans, snow and ice are in dire trouble and the damage is causing harm to the people who depend on them. Even with aggressive efforts to lower greenhouse gas emissions, many nations will struggle to adapt. […]

Egypt
Egypt's Sisi Regime again Engages in Mass Arrests of Protesters as West looks the other Way

Egypt’s Sisi Regime again Engages in Mass Arrests of Protesters as West looks the other Way

Jonathan Fenton-Harvey

(Informed Comment) – The sheer brutality of Egypt’s Abdel Fatah al-Sisi’s military regime once again came to light, following another crackdown and mass arrests on protesters. Meanwhile, many Western leaders at the latest United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York again show no sign of addressing such abuses from their ally. Small but widespread […]

Pentagon
Bestselling Pentagon Fiction: Beware of Defense Secretaries Pledging Reform

Bestselling Pentagon Fiction: Beware of Defense Secretaries Pledging Reform

William D. Hartung

Co-author: Mandy Smithberger | – (Tomdispatch.com) – For the Pentagon, happy days are here again (if they ever left). With a budget totaling more than $1.4 trillion for the next two years, the department is riding high, even as it attempts to set the stage for yet more spending increases in the years to come. […]

Constitution
Witness Intimidation: Unbalanced Trump Seeks Whistleblower sources, hints Execution for Espionage

Witness Intimidation: Unbalanced Trump Seeks Whistleblower sources, hints Execution for Espionage

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump, being unbalanced, has never dealt well with criticism. In the face of credible charges of impeachable offenses in his July conversation with Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump is unraveling. Eli Stokols at the LA Times reports that an attendee at a Trump event in New York for his UN […]

Congress
Annals of Impeachment: From Nixon's "Smoking Gun" Tape to Trump Zelensky Summary

Annals of Impeachment: From Nixon’s “Smoking Gun” Tape to Trump Zelensky Summary

Juan Cole

On August 5, 1974, Nixon was forced by the Supreme Court to release the smoking gun tape in which he and his chief of staff H. R. Haldemann had a conversation, in the course of which Nixon could be heard acknowledging his knowledge of the burglary of the Democratic National Committee office files in the […]

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