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Archives for January 2021

Climate Crisis
The first thing we do, let's kill all the Coal Plants: How Joe Biden can save the Planet

The first thing we do, let’s kill all the Coal Plants: How Joe Biden can save the Planet

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – My title is from William Shakespeare’s Henry the VI. In the original, Dick “the Butcher” is speaking of ways to overthrow the king and improve the country, and he suggests killing all the lawyers first. Nowadays, carbon dioxide is the thing preventing us from improving the country. President Biden has […]

Israel/ Palestine
The Scam of branding Criticism of Israel ‘Anti-Semitic’ is over: B’Tselem says it is an Apartheid State

The Scam of branding Criticism of Israel ‘Anti-Semitic’ is over: B’Tselem says it is an Apartheid State

Middle East Monitor

By Nasim Ahmed | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – When B’Tselem described Israel as an apartheid state in a position paper last week, it did more than just dispel long held delusions about the Zionist state. In saying that Israel “promotes and perpetuates Jewish supremacy between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River,” […]

Joe Biden
Do Biden's Foreign Policy Appointees signal new Cold Wars with Russia, China?

Do Biden’s Foreign Policy Appointees signal new Cold Wars with Russia, China?

Danny Sjursen

( Tomdispatch.com) – Hard as it is to believe in this time of record pandemic deaths, insurrection, and an unprecedented encore impeachment, Joe Biden is now officially at the helm of the U.S. war machine. He is, in other words, the fourth president to oversee America’s unending and unsuccessful post-9/11 military campaigns. In terms of […]

nuclear weapons
Abolishing Nuclear Weapons: A New Chance, as 50 Countries Pledge no Nukes

Abolishing Nuclear Weapons: A New Chance, as 50 Countries Pledge no Nukes

H. Patricia Hynes

( Portside ) – A nuclear darkness has engulfed the world for seven decades, with only intermittent breakthroughs of light when treaties among nuclear nations were negotiated. Some treaties have been violated for decades; others, walked away from by Trump. Any progress made on eliminating nuclear weapons has ceased. Worse, a new weapons upgrade is […]

Donald Trump
Trump  targeted innocent Muslims with Visa Ban on phony pretext of 'Terrorism,' then unleashed real White Terrorism on Capitol

Trump targeted innocent Muslims with Visa Ban on phony pretext of ‘Terrorism,’ then unleashed real White Terrorism on Capitol

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Muslim visa ban that Trump got through on his third try, and in which the Supreme Court to its everlasting shame acquiesced, is no more. President Biden abolished it with a stroke of his pen on his first day in office. That isn’t enough. Congress needs to legislate explicitly […]

Books
The Hill we Climb: Amanda Gorman's Inauguration Poem

The Hill we Climb: Amanda Gorman’s Inauguration Poem

contributors

Amanda Gorman | – ( Buy her forthcoming poetry collection via Penguin Random House.) The Hill We Climb When day comes we ask ourselves, where can we find light in this never-ending shade? The loss we carry, a sea we must wade We’ve braved the belly of the beast We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always […]

Donald Trump
The Hatred and Insurrection fomented by our first Internet-Troll President finally Drove him from Office

The Hatred and Insurrection fomented by our first Internet-Troll President finally Drove him from Office

David Faris

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – In his perfunctory farewell speech, released on Tuesday many months after he had churlishly quit on the American people in their greatest hour of need, Donald Trump claimed that he and his band of inept rapscallions had come to Washington to “restore the allegiance of this government to its […]

Israel/ Palestine
The Height of Chutzpah: Notorious Racist Netanyahu seeks Palestinian-Israeli Votes to divide the Joint List

The Height of Chutzpah: Notorious Racist Netanyahu seeks Palestinian-Israeli Votes to divide the Joint List

Middle East Monitor

By Ali Abu Hableh | – ( Middle East Monitor) – Arab MKs (members of the Knesset — parliament) in Israel from the various parties that make up the Joint List bloc agree that the recent visits by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the Arab cities of At-Tira, Umm Al-Fahm and Nazareth are intended […]

Climate Crisis
With Yellen at Treasury, Can we Finally get a Progressive Carbon Tax?

With Yellen at Treasury, Can we Finally get a Progressive Carbon Tax?

The Conversation

By Rachel Kyte | – Janet Yellen is poised to be the next U.S. Treasury secretary, and her inbox will require every ounce of her vast experience to pilot the economy through a daunting confluence of challenges. How the U.S. manages the economic recovery from COVID-19, the financial risks from climate change and inequality together […]

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