Category
- Africa (100)
- Asia (584)
- Authoritarianism (114)
- Cats (1)
- Culture (340)
- Dehydration (1)
- Democracy (162)
- Dissent (263)
- Economy (460)
- Education (51)
- Elderly (2)
- Energy (782)
- Environment (926)
- Europe (511)
- Featured (1,484)
- fiction (5)
- Food (6)
- Guns (8)
- History (156)
- Human Rights (851)
- Immigration (13)
- International (508)
- Islamophobia (203)
- Juan Cole (264)
- Latin America (34)
- Latinos (3)
- leisure (21)
- media (296)
- Middle East (4,951)
- Arab World (3,616)
- Iran (447)
- Israel (581)
- Israel/ Palestine (1,128)
- Israel/Palestine (8)
- Kurds (192)
- Turkey (298)
- military (102)
- Modernism (1)
- nationalism (92)
- NATO (3)
- Natural Disasters (11)
- nuclear weapons (23)
- Peace (52)
- Persian mythology (1)
- Popular Culture (22)
- Poverty (3)
- privacy (19)
- racism (214)
- religion (614)
- Rights (108)
- Romance (1)
- science (79)
- Secular (West) (7)
- Secularism (19)
- South Pacific (1)
- Spirituality (18)
- Statelessness (14)
- Surveillance (243)
- Terrorism (964)
- Tolerance (3)
- Uncategorized (8,004)
- United Nations (57)
- Urbanization (2)
- US Foreign Policy (411)
- US politics (2,262)
- Anti-War Movement (5)
- Campaign Finance (22)
- Censors (20)
- Central Intelligence Agency (53)
- Civil Rights (75)
- Constitution (215)
- Democratic Party (411)
- Domestic Terrorism (15)
- Drone Warfare (18)
- Espionage (102)
- Ethnicities (197)
- Far Right (148)
- FBI (28)
- Foreign Policy (163)
- Gay Rights (11)
- Guns (43)
- Immigration (96)
- Israel Lobbies (62)
- Militarization (192)
- National Security State (325)
- Native Americans (12)
- Nuclear arsenal (5)
- penitentiaries (5)
- Pentagon (175)
- Police (19)
- prison reform (1)
- Puerto Rico (8)
- Religious Right (1)
- Reproductive Choice (7)
- Republican Party (1,282)
- Supreme Court (19)
- Voter suppression (15)
- Whistleblowers (3)
- Xenophobia (5)
- Veterans (15)
- Voting Rights (4)
- War (190)
- Western Religion (313)
- White Supremacists (29)
- wikileaks (8)
- women (191)
- workers (103)
- Writing (5)
- Youth (97)
Archives: Natural Gas
1 in 50 new Jobs in US is in Solar Energy, despite Trump
Bill Ritter, Jr. | (The Conversation) | On Tuesday, March 28, President Trump traveled to the Environmental Protection Agency to sign an executive order rolling back a number of climate-related regulations that…
Cooking the Planet: GOP Congress quietly allows Methane Emissions on Public Land
By Andrea Germanos, staff writer | Commondreams.org | - - Fossil fuel industry hits paydirt as congress approves measure that gives "away a taxpayer-owned resource for free" The U.S. House of Representatives…
Trump mires us in carbon Swamp with fossil cronies in key roles
The Tree | (Content for Climate Communicators) | - - Instead of draining the swamp as promised, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is doing the opposite, appointing powerful fossil fuel executives and dirty…
Native American Resistance Camp Fights Oil Pipeline
AJ+ | (video News Report) - - "We take you inside the resistance camp in North Dakota that's protesting the Dakota Access pipeline, a 1,170-mile oil pipeline project that has been halted.…
Does Fracking give you Cancer?
By Tom Giesen | (Informed Comment) | - - Alarming and world-shaking new findings have emerged about the dangers of waste water from hydraulic fracturing ("fracking"). Researchers have assessed the potential health…
After largest Methane Leak in US History, will California Ban Fracking, go for Solar & Wind?
The Tree | - - A natural gas well that leaked over four months in California is finally under control, paving the way for the “road to recovery” and justice. The Aliso…
Great Barrier Reef Endangered: Ocean turning Acidic from our Our Coal, Oil, Gas emissions
By Mathieu Mongin, Andrew Lenton, Jennifer Skerratt & Mark Baird | (The Conversation) | - - Those of us who have been fortunate enough to have travelled to spectacular coral reefs marvel…
GOP Hopefuls Get $62M From Fossil Fuel Donors: Origins of Climate Denialism?
Elliot Hill and Mark Sovel | (TheLipTV Video Report) | - - "Eight out of the 17 Republican presidential candidates have received at least $62m in donations from a small number of…
The Nuclear Deal has turned Tehran into Diplomatic Capital of Mideast
By Javad Heirannia / Farhang Jahanpour | (Tehran Times) | - - TEHRAN - Farhang Jahanpour, a former Senior Research Fellow at Harvard University, says the confirmation of the nuclear deal between…
Thousands Protest in Baghdad against Lack of Electricity, Services & demand end of Corruption
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - It seems extraordinary, but in a country where Daesh (ISIS, ISIL) has advanced to within an hour's drive of the capital, Baghdad, civil…
It’s Getting hot in Here: There never was a Pause in Global Warming: Scientists
By Jay Lawrimore | (The Conversation) | - National and international studies have shown that the Earth is warming, and with this warming, other changes are occurring, such as an increasing incidence…
The End of Dirty Coal? Britain CO2 Falls 10% on Coal Plant Closings
The Tree | -- The UK could soon see coal use fall back to levels last seen during the industrial revolution as yet another uneconomical coal plant shuts its doors. On Wednesday,…
Is Big Oil Finally Entering a Climate Change World?
By Michael T. Klare | (Tomdispatch.com) Many reasons have been provided for the dramatic plunge in the price of oil to about $60 per barrel (nearly half of what it was a…
Bombing Iran: What would Happen if the Hawks got their Way?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) - Some of those who believe that Iran's civilian nuclear enrichment program is inevitably dual use (that it can be used to produce a nuclear weapon)…
The “Hindenburg Trap”: Dump Oil, Coal & Gas Stocks if you Want to Retire
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) - What is the actual value of the oil, gas and coal fields owned by big energy corporations, which gives them their stock price and allows…
Gaza: How the Struggle for Natural Gas drives the Wars
By Michael Schwartz | (Tomdispatch.com) | - Guess what? Almost all the current wars, uprisings, and other conflicts in the Middle East are connected by a single thread, which is also a…
Leftist Jordanians protest expected gas deal with Israel
BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Dozens of protesters marched in the Jordanian capital of Amman on Friday to denounce a gas deal with Israel that is expected to be passed by the end of…
Antarctica Glaciers Melting 3 Times Faster than 10 Years Ago
American Geophysical Union | -- West Antarctic melt rate has tripled "Joint Press Release WASHINGTON, D.C. – A comprehensive, 21-year analysis of the fastest-melting region of Antarctica has found that the melt…