Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Political Scientist and liberal Zionist Michael Walzer gave an interview early in the Israeli campaign against Gaza in which he […]
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Our Pyromaniac President in a Flammable World
San Francisco (Tomdispatch.com) | – “I’ve just heard that my family home near Carpenteria is literally in flames at this moment,” a friend told me […]
Turkey to defy Trump, open Embassy to Palestine in E. Jerusalem
Middle East Monitor | – – Turkey will open an embassy in East Jerusalem, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday, days after leading calls at […]
Puerto Rico: On top of Everything Else, GOP Tax Bill is Racist
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Puerto Rico’s governor, Ricardo Rosselló Nevares, sent a letter to all the members of Congress yesterday, […]
Solar & Wind: How free electricity would change the world (Economist Video)
The Economist | (Video News Report) | – – “magine if heating and powering homes became free in the next decade. What would that mean […]
Iraq: Parliament Rejects Marriage for 8-Year-Old Girls
Human Rights Watch | – – Amendments Would Have Instated Discriminatory Laws on Family Matters (Beirut) – Iraq’s parliament has rejected proposed amendments to Iraq’s […]
Global Heating: 3 Largest Wildfires in California History all have Raged since 2012
The Watchers | – – The Thomas Fire in California is burning for the 13th day in a row and has now grown to 259 […]
Putin’s talk of Draw Down in Syria isn’t about Russia leaving, but staying
By Moritz Pieper | (The Conversation) | – – Standing on the Russian military airbase at Khmeimim on his December visit to Syria, Vladimir Putin […]
Having had Green Electricity for 300 days, Costa Rica Moves to EVs
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Costa Rica, which has among the cleanest electrical grids in the world, has just passed a […]
To stop Global Heating, Meat Taxes are Coming
By Matt Mace | edie.net | (Euractiv.com) – – Estimates suggest that meat and dairy demand will mean agriculture will emit 20 gigatonnes of emission […]