Informed Comment - Part 1118

Will it be the Accountants who bring down Trump and his Cronies?

San Francisco ( Tomdispatch.com) – They call people like us “bean counters” — the soulless ones beavering away in some windowless accounting department, the living […]

Rebecca Gordon

Acidification of Oceans

The other Shoe: Water Vapor from Warming Oceans is a Potent Greenhouse Gas

Heinrich Boell Stiftung | – – Without the ocean, climate change would proceed far more quickly. The massive volumes of water in the seas greatly […]

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Featured

Pompeo to Saudi Arabia: Mobilize against Iran and end Yemen War, Qatar Blockade

His program is full of ideologically-driven impracticalities

Juan Cole

Climate Change

Massive Melting in Arctic is a Danger Signal of Manmade Climate Change

Scientists have known for a long time that as climate change started to heat up the Earth, its effects would be most pronounced in the […]

Mark Serreze

Judaism

Tunisia: Muslim Religious Right endorses Jewish Candidate for Parliament

Slama says al-Nahda is a civil party now and Jewish Tunisians’ fears are beginning to be allayed

AFP

Donald Trump

Michelle Wolf roasts Trump at White House Correspondents’ Dinner (Video)

“it is 2018 and I’m a woman and you can’t shut me up unless you have Michael Cohen bring me $130,000”

C-SPAN

Qatar

Qatar rejects Saudi demand it send Troops to Syria

Middle East Monitor | – – Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani has said that Saudi Arabia’s ultimatum over Doha sending troops to […]

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Syria