By Bill Hare, Murdoch University | – (The Conversation) – Australia is one of the world’s largest exporters of fossil fuels. While this coal and gas is burned beyond our borders, the climate-warming carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions affect us all. My colleagues and I at global research and policy institute Climate Analytics were commissioned to […]
Archives for August 2024
Saudi Crown Prince fears Assassination if he Recognizes Israel without getting a Palestinian State
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Nahal Toosi at Politico reported on Wednesday that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, has emphasized to the Biden administration that the “grand bargain” they want him to make with Israel could result in his assassination. She says he instanced the late Egyptian […]
Trump, the Candidate from Hell, wants to Make America a Hellhole
Donald Trump is all too literally the candidate from hell and, yes, he’s threatening to take the United States and the world to — no place else! — hell and back. He’s the greatest danger to this planet imaginable. And I’m not even thinking about what else he’d do, were he to win election 2024 […]
The Rate of Global Heating varies, but Temperatures will rise over Time until we Halt CO2 Emissions
By Christopher Merchant, University of Reading | – A 13-month streak of record-breaking global warmth has ended. From June 2023 until June 2024, air and ocean surface water temperatures averaged a quarter of a degree Celsius higher than records set only a few years previously. Air temperatures in July 2024 were slightly cooler than the […]
Ultra-Orthodox Threaten to Bolt Netanyahu’s Government over Prayer at the Temple Mount
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Times of Israel reported that a schism is brewing on the Israeli right wing. The Ultra-Orthodox object to Jews praying at the Temple Mount on the grounds that it is the holy site of the Second Temple and for Jews to pray there before the Messiah comes is impious […]
Sadism as a Tool of War in Gaza
By Samah Jabr | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Prisoners have recounted being paraded before the Israeli public in cages, being spat at and having bananas thrown at them. Human rights and recent press reports detail instances where soldiers inserted a mobile phone into a prisoner’s anus and then called it, laughing as […]
3 Years after the Taliban’s Return, Afghanistan is a broken country facing problems of Terrorism Again
By Amin Saikal, Australian National University | – (The Conversation) – This week marks the third year since America’s retreat from Afghanistan and the Taliban’s return to power. The United States had intervened in Afghanistan in response to the September 11 2001 terror attacks by al-Qaeda. The aim was to combat international terrorism and chart […]
Refashioning War through Aid in Palestine – Elastic Empire
Review of Lisa Bhungalia, “Elastic Empire: Refashioning War through Aid in Palestine” (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2023). Munich, Germany (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) –– The impact of US military aid on Palestine is there for everyone to see. For decades, Israel has been the largest recipient of US military aid. The list of military […]
How Rupert Murdoch helped create a Monster – the era of Trumpism – and then lost Control of it
By Rodney Tiffen, University of Sydney | – (The Conversation) – You can’t help but feel sorry for Rupert Murdoch. In Mary Shelley’s famous novel, Dr Frankenstein created a monster that took on a life of its own, and which he could no longer control. Murdoch has outdone Frankenstein and created two monsters over which […]
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