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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Can Europe compete with China in post-Sanction Iran? Will the US Let it?
By Moritz Pieper | (The Conversation) | – – The cake is quite big, but everyone wants a slice. Italian prime minister, Matteo Renzi, visited […]
Can Leonardo DiCaprio save Iran’s incredible shrinking Lake Urmia?
By Tori Egherman | ( Globalvoices.org ) | – – In one “regram,” American actor Leonardo DiCaprio has brought a flood of attention to Iran's […]
Al-Zawahiri Supports Syrian al-Qaeda, calls for more global Volunteers
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Al-Qaeda central leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, a mastermind of the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington, […]
Yemen: Saudis Using US Cluster Munitions
Human Rights Watch | – – End Production, Transfer of These Banned Weapons (Washington, DC) – Saudi Arabia has used US-made cluster munitions near civilian […]
Chomsky: Who Rules the World? (Hint: Not States any more)
By Noam Chomsky | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – [This piece, the first of two parts, is excerpted from Noam Chomsky’s new book, Who Rules […]
Media as a Shark’s Pilot Fish (Political Cartoon)
By Paul Jamiol | ( Jamiol’s World
Is Turkish PM’s forced exit a Harbinger of greater Authoritarianism?
By Winston Obertan | ( GlobalVoices.org ) | – – Turkey's Prime Minister of nearly two years Ahmet Davutoğlu has announced his intention to quit […]
Top 4 Reasons Iran will stand by Syrian gov’t despite High Casualties
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – On Saturday, Iran announced that 13 members of the Revolutionary Guards Corps had been killed and […]
These 5 Intellectuals Smash the ‘Anti-Zionism Is Anti-Semitic’ Argument
TeleSur | – – As controversy surrounding the "new anti-Semitism" rages in Europe, important public intellectuals argue that critiquing Israel is not anti-Semitism. Israeli Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked […]