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Archives for January 2023

Israel/ Palestine
Deadliest Year for Palestinians in Decades: Israeli Forces Kill 240, including 47 children

Deadliest Year for Palestinians in Decades: Israeli Forces Kill 240, including 47 children

Ramzy Baroud

( Middle East Monitor ) – Another critical year for Palestine has folded. While 2022 has wrought much of the same in terms of Israeli military occupation and increasing violence, it also introduced new variables to the Palestinian struggle – nationally, regionally and internationally. Palestine, the War and the Arabs The Russia-Ukraine War starting in […]

Campaign Finance
In One State, Voters backed a Law Exposing Political ‘Dark Money’ that is hailed as Model

In One State, Voters backed a Law Exposing Political ‘Dark Money’ that is hailed as Model

Cronkite News Arizona PBS

By Emilee Miranda | – ( Cronkite News) – WASHINGTON – It could be months before the impact of Proposition 211 is seen in Arizona, but experts are already hailing the new law aimed at exposing “dark money” in politics as a model for the rest of the nation. “Other states have passed laws that […]

Debt
Is the Russian Economy headed for Collapse?

Is the Russian Economy headed for Collapse?

The Conversation

By Eric Werker, Simon Fraser University | – (The Conversation) – To justify invading Ukraine, Vladimir Putin has painted Russia as a hegemonic power re-asserting its rightful claim to imperial greatness. Yet even before the invasion, Russia’s economic capabilities were hardly capable of sustaining an empire. Now, with foreign sanctions presiding over a plummeting Russian […]

Featured
2023 Prediction: The 2 Major Headaches for U.S. Foreign Policy, aside from Russia, will be Israeli and Iranian Fundamentalism

2023 Prediction: The 2 Major Headaches for U.S. Foreign Policy, aside from Russia, will be Israeli and Iranian Fundamentalism

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Despite the desire of all recent presidents to pivot away from the Middle East, Israel, fundamentalism and Iran have made it difficult to do so. In 2023, I believe that the Biden administration will have to spend far more time on Iran and Israel-Palestine than it had imagined, despite the […]

Climate Crisis
3/4s of German Homeowners are Ready to Put Solar Panels on their Roofs:  Survey

3/4s of German Homeowners are Ready to Put Solar Panels on their Roofs: Survey

Benjamin Wehrmann

( Clean Energy Wire ) – Three in four houseowners in Germany wish to put a solar PV array on their roofs, according to a survey commissioned by the country’s solar industry lobby group BSW Solar. One in five houseowners aims to install solar PV arrays within the next twelve months, the survey by pollster […]

Israel/ Palestine
Will electing the most Far Right Extremist Government Ever cost Israel International Support?

Will electing the most Far Right Extremist Government Ever cost Israel International Support?

Middle East Monitor

By Mohammad Makram Balawi | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – The results of the last round of Israeli elections must have represented a big blow to US hopes and efforts as they placed their bets on the former caretaker Prime Minister Yair Lapid. However, the results have shown that they bet on the […]

Climate Crisis
The Climate Emergency can be Overcome:  Why some Scientists are Hopeful

The Climate Emergency can be Overcome: Why some Scientists are Hopeful

The Conversation

By Patrick Omeja, Makerere University; Abay Yimere, Tufts University; Desta Mebratu, Stellenbosch University; and Jennifer Fitchett, University of the Witwatersrand | – (The Conversation) – Can our planet recover from climate change? Commissioning Editor, Kofoworola Belo-Osagie, asked scientists to share the reasons they believe there is hope. Jennifer Fitchett, Associate Professor of Physical Geography, School […]

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