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Archives for May 2024

Climate Crisis
Trump's attempt at Planeticide was Worse than Hush Money Sex Pay-Off

Trump’s attempt at Planeticide was Worse than Hush Money Sex Pay-Off

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – It is great good news, of course, that Trump was finally held accountable for his hush money pay off to porn star Stormy Daniels to keep her quiet about their hook-up so as to win the 2016 presidential election. Had she gone public in October, 2016 in the wake of […]

Climate Crisis
Climate Emergency: India's Massive Heat Wave Signals extreme Danger for an Aging Global Population

Climate Emergency: India’s Massive Heat Wave Signals extreme Danger for an Aging Global Population

The Conversation

By Deborah Carr, Boston University; Enrica De Cian, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice; Giacomo Falchetta, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and Ian Sue Wing, Boston University | – (The Conversation) – A deadly heat wave gripped large regions of Asia for weeks in spring 2024, sending temperatures in India’s capital region over 120 degrees Fahrenheit […]

Genocide
Israel’s Onslaught of Revenge

Israel’s Onslaught of Revenge

Joshua Frank

( Tomdispatch.com ) – As Amal Nassar lay in pain on a bed at the Al-Awda Hospital in the Nuseirat refugee camp in northern Gaza, the echoes of explosions and artillery fire could be heard all around her. It was mid-January and she had made her way to the embattled hospital to give birth to […]

Cybercrime
Israel's Stalking Operation against the ICC is Mirrored in its Canary Mission attack on US Universities

Israel’s Stalking Operation against the ICC is Mirrored in its Canary Mission attack on US Universities

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Biden administration has signaled that it will not cooperate with a Republican-led effort to place legislative sanctions on the International Criminal Court for having requested warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. The move reverses a pledge by Secretary of State Antony Blinken last […]

Children
Innocence is under Siege, with a psychological Toll on Gaza's Children

Innocence is under Siege, with a psychological Toll on Gaza’s Children

Middle East Monitor

By Aijaz Ahmad Mir | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – The ongoing conflict in occupied Palestine has had a major effect on the mental well-being of Palestinian children. The trauma of living in a war-ravaged region, enduring displacement and witnessing extreme violence can result in a variety of mental health concerns, such as […]

Dissent
Turning Universities into Homeland Security Classes, 101

Turning Universities into Homeland Security Classes, 101

Tomdispatch

By Michael Gould-Wartofsky ( Tomdispatch.com ) – The academic year that just ended left America’s college campuses in quite a state: with snipers on the rooftops and checkpoints at the gates; quads overrun by riot squads, state troopers, and federal agents; and even the scent of gunpowder in the air. In short, in the spring […]

Apartheid
Ireland Recognizes Palestine, Broaches sanctions on Israel for "Barbaric" Airstrikes, Settler Violence

Ireland Recognizes Palestine, Broaches sanctions on Israel for “Barbaric” Airstrikes, Settler Violence

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Ireland joined Spain and Norway on Tuesday in formally recognizing Palestine as a “sovereign and independent state” in Gaza and the West Bank, with East Jerusalem as its capital, inside 1967 borders. The prime minister or Taoiseach of Ireland, Simon Harris, proclaimed, “Ireland’s decision is about keeping hope alive. It […]

Climate Crisis
How America’s 25 Gigs of New Solar will help keep Power on during our Coming Scorching Summer

How America’s 25 Gigs of New Solar will help keep Power on during our Coming Scorching Summer

Florida Phoenix

By: Robert Zullo – ( Florida Phoenix ) -With some parts of the country already facing heat waves, the organization in charge of setting reliability standards for the American electric grid is warning that a scorching summer could lead to a shortage of power generation in some regions. The warning comes as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says there’s […]

Donald Trump
The intersectionality of Hate helps us understand the Ideology of Donald Trump and the Far Right

The intersectionality of Hate helps us understand the Ideology of Donald Trump and the Far Right

The Conversation

By Francis Dupuis-Déri, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | – (The Conversation) – A new conceptual tool is required to fully understand the most recent rhetorical strategies of far-right activists and politicians, including former U.S. President Donald Trump. This is precisely what the concept of “intersectionality of hate” aims to do. Analysts and academics […]

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