Sacramento (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The Fourth of July we just observed, nearly 250 years after America’s Declaration of Independence, felt like a […]
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China met Carbon Intensity Goals 3 Years Early, but it Isn’t Nearly Enough
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – I am not a fundamentalist in any other area of life. But I am a carbon […]
Egypt’s Electoral Farce: Polls show Al-Sisi lacks legitimacy & gov’t is Unstable
By Pamela Abbott & Andrea Teti | (The Conversation) | – – Egyptians are voting in presidential elections on March 26-28. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who […]
Facebook Deletes Gaza-Based Safa News, which had 1.3 mn Followers
this year alone 500 pages of Palestinian journalists, activists and bloggers have been deleted
All Donald, All the Time: America’s Ruin as Spectacle
By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – A record? Come on! Don’t minimize what’s happening. It’s far too unique, too unprecedented even […]
Could China oil Exchange & Green Energy pull the plug on the Dollar?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Kate Duguid at Reuters reports the alarm at UBS that China’s new oil futures exchange will […]
Palestine: 17% increase in Israel’s squatter settlements under Trump
Middle East Monitor | – – Construction of settlements in the occupied West Bank surged 17 per cent during the first year of US President […]
Yemen: Thousands Protest 3 Years of West-backed Saudi War
TeleSur | – – in Since the military offensive began 10,000 people have been killed, and 53,000 wounded. In Yemen‘s capital Sanaa, tens of thousands […]
Trumpism: Why having US Ambassadors in 1/3 of Countries & Spec Ops in 3/4s is Bad
Monica Duffy Toft | (The Conversation) | – – A strong legacy of U.S. leadership and engagement in global politics has been reduced today to […]
Apocalyptic Numbers: The Saudi-Trump War on Yemen
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Three years ago this month, the then 29-year-old Minister of Defense of Saudi Arabia (now its […]
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