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Germany to End its Coal Industry, Go Green, within 20 Years

Clean Energy Wire

( Clean Energy Wire) – Energy transition home country Germany eyes a phase-out of coal power by 2038 at the very latest, as the country tries to get back on track to create a climate-friendly economy. In its highly anticipated phase-out proposal, the country’s coal commission said the world’s fourth largest economy could also wean […]

Ireland Bans Israeli Settler goods from Occupied Palestinian West Bank

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Ireland’s parliament has voted by 78 votes to 45 to ban the importation into Ireland of goods produced by Israeli squatter firms in the militarily Occupied Palestinian West Bank. According to the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention on occupied territories, the occupying authority is forbidden to settle its own population in […]

How Hard will a Hard Brexit be on Britain and US? Very Hard

British Policy and Politics

That Britain is contemplating leaving the EU without a withdrawal agreement or new trade deal shows how perverse our politics has become.

Piteous Albion & Brexit: British PM Suffers Biggest Defeat in Modern History

European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker urged London to “clarify its intentions”, warning: “Time is almost up.”

Displaced and Refugees

The Surprising Successes of Community Work with Muslim Refugees in Germany

I studied the most positive refugee settlement programs inside Germany

Germany: MSM won’t Tell you White Nationalist Drove into Muslim Refugees

Police said the attack was premeditated and that one of the victims is still in hospital receiving treatment

Germany’s Electricity 38% Renewable in 2018, more than Coal for 1st Time

Meanwhile, carbon dioxide emissions fell 6% in the world’s 4th-largest economy.

The Antisemitic Turn of the Rising Far Right ‘Alternative for Germany’ Party

The AfD wants to use Israel to exploit the false notion that whoever is pro-Israel could not be antisemitic

Why isn’t anyone Asking Why the French Yellow Vest Protesters are Rallying?

The tax on diesel followed a whole series of tax gifts to the most wealthy French citizens and businesses