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 […]
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Trump still wants Expensive Coal but the Market wants Cheap wind & Solar
By Jonathan Marshall | (Consortiumnews.com) | – – Market trends now favor renewable energy as a cost-effective alternative to fossil fuels, but President Trump’s resistance […]
Will Trump manage to stab both Syrian Kurds and Turkey in the Back at same time?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump is alleged to have promised Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan that he will cease arming the […]
Extremists Kill 235 at Mosque in Egypt’s Sinai
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – A massive explosion went off outside a mosque in the small town (pop. 2500) of Rawdah […]
The Falsehood of Trump’s ‘Precision Strikes’ and ‘Clean Wars’
By Paul Rogers | ( OpenDemocracy.net) | – – Trump’s worldview promises low-cost military success. The blasting apart of civilian lives in Iraq says otherwise. […]
Saudi Arabia makes it ‘Terrorism’ to Criticize the King
Human Rights Watch | – – (New York) – Saudi Arabia’s new counterterrorism law includes vague and overly broad definitions of acts of terrorism, in […]
Israel’s Bedouin as Sisyphus: Homes destroyed over & over
By Aniqa Raihan | ( Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – Thousands of Arab Bedouins in Israel’s Negev desert are denied power, water, sewage, […]
As Flynn cuts off WH, top 4 Alleged Crimes he could sink Trump with
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Ret. 3-star general Michael Flynn, under investigation by Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller, has ceased sharing information […]
Is Palestinian Pres. Abbas refusing to take Jared Kushner’s Phone Calls?
Middle East Monitor | – – Haaretz reported on Thursday 23 November, 2017, that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas refused Wednesday to answer a phone call […]
“Give me Liberty & Give Me Liquor” Anbar, Iraq after ISIL
Kamal al-Ayash. | Anbar | (Niqash.org) | – – Even before the extremists were in control in Anbar, selling alcohol was banned. During extremist control, […]