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China’s Power Sector Emissions fall 5.8% in Q1, as Renewables rapidly Replace Coal
China

China’s Power Sector Emissions fall 5.8% in Q1, as Renewables rapidly Replace Coal

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Lauri Myllyvirta writes at Carbon Brief that China’s CO2 emissions over-all fell by 1% in the past 12 months, and […]

Trump and Bukele: The Few Repressing the Many

Trump and Bukele: The Few Repressing the Many

05/16/2025 By Foreign Policy in Focus

That Sucking Sound you hear is Trump Flushing America down the Toilet

That Sucking Sound you hear is Trump Flushing America down the Toilet

05/16/2025 By Tom Engelhardt

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Immigration
How Trump's Executive Order Reversing Family Separation just Makes Things Worse

How Trump’s Executive Order Reversing Family Separation just Makes Things Worse

The executive order includes no provision to reunite the 2,300 separated families and illegally proposes to detain children indefinitely. Caracas (TeleSur) – United States President […]

TeleSur

Immigration
At US Border, Children Still ‘crying and screaming’ for Mothers

At US Border, Children Still ‘crying and screaming’ for Mothers

“Some of the mothers could see their children but couldn’t get near to them, some of them couldn’t see them.”

Leila Macor

African-Americans
Police Killings of African-Americans exact Mental Health Toll: The Lancet

Police Killings of African-Americans exact Mental Health Toll: The Lancet

The disproportionately high rate at which unarmed black people die at the hands of police has an impact on the mental health of black Americans

AFP

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Not only Is Trump's Refugee Policy Morally Wrong, it is Illegal in US and Int'l Law

Not only Is Trump’s Refugee Policy Morally Wrong, it is Illegal in US and Int’l Law

The US is a signatory state to a 1967 protocol that binds it to act in concert with the UN High Commissioner on Refugees

Juan Cole

Immigration
Look Deeper:  Child Detention and the US's Paramilitary Politics Abroad

Look Deeper: Child Detention and the US’s Paramilitary Politics Abroad

Throughout Central America extreme inequality along with ruthless and repressive governments have led to a pathological politics

John Buell

social media
Turkey: Social Media Activists Resist Authoritarian Pres. Erdogan in Run-Up to Elections

Turkey: Social Media Activists Resist Authoritarian Pres. Erdogan in Run-Up to Elections

Essex (The Conversation) – Turkey will soon go to the polls for the fifth time in less than four years. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced […]

Rabia Karakaya Polat

Government surveillance
Are Police Tracking You Using Facial Recognition? (Video)

Are Police Tracking You Using Facial Recognition? (Video)

AJ+ explores the risks and benefits of facial recognition software

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin

China
As Pentagon Encircles China, Does Military Conflict With Beijing Loom?

As Pentagon Encircles China, Does Military Conflict With Beijing Loom?

From Beijing, the strategic outlook articulated by Secretary of Defense James Mattis is clearly viewed as threatening

Michael T. Klare

Houthi
Yemen’s Huthis vow to fight on after losing Hodeida airport to Saudi-Backed Coalition

Yemen’s Huthis vow to fight on after losing Hodeida airport to Saudi-Backed Coalition

Yemen’s Huthi rebels vowed to fight on after pro-government forces seized Hodeida airport from them on Wednesday

AFP

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