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China’s Power Sector Emissions fall 5.8% in Q1, as Renewables rapidly Replace Coal
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China’s Power Sector Emissions fall 5.8% in Q1, as Renewables rapidly Replace Coal

Juan Cole

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 […]

Trump and Bukele: The Few Repressing the Many

Trump and Bukele: The Few Repressing the Many

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That Sucking Sound you hear is Trump Flushing America down the Toilet

That Sucking Sound you hear is Trump Flushing America down the Toilet

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Evangelical Militarism & Islamophobia? Does the Wheaton College Hawkins case signal a Problem?

Evangelical Militarism & Islamophobia? Does the Wheaton College Hawkins case signal a Problem?

By Damon F. Lynch | (Informed Comment) | – – Evangelical university Wheaton College has generated global attention by suspending and initiating the firing of […]

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Daesh/ ISIL carries off 400 Women & Children from Deir al-Zor to a fate worse than Death

Daesh/ ISIL carries off 400 Women & Children from Deir al-Zor to a fate worse than Death

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Daesh (ISIS, ISIL) on Sunday attacked an isolated outpost of the Syrian Arab Army in a […]

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Can Twitter be Sued for 'Facilitating' ISIL Terrorism?

Can Twitter be Sued for ‘Facilitating’ ISIL Terrorism?

By Bruce Baer Arnold | (The Conversation) | – – If ISIS and its supporters use Twitter to facilitate terrorist action or merely spread propaganda, […]

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Plutocracy
Sanders: Michigan Governor Must Resign over Flint Lead-Poisoning Crisis

Sanders: Michigan Governor Must Resign over Flint Lead-Poisoning Crisis

By Common Dreams staff | ( Commondreams.org) | – – Democratic presidential hopeful U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Saturday called on Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder […]

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Iraq
Iraq:  Ethnic Fighting endangers Civilians; now it's Kurds and Shiites

Iraq: Ethnic Fighting endangers Civilians; now it’s Kurds and Shiites

Human Rights Watch | – – (Beirut) – Kurdish and Shia Turkmen armed groups have repeatedly harmed and endangered civilians in clashes in Iraq’s Tuz […]

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Foreign Policy
Out of Gas in Iranian Waters

Out of Gas in Iranian Waters

By Michael G. Roskin | (Informed Comment) | – – Why did two U.S. Navy boats drift into Iranian waters? And why was it so […]

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Druze
Israeli plan for minorities slammed as bid to ‘divide and conquer’

Israeli plan for minorities slammed as bid to ‘divide and conquer’

By: Chloe Benoist | (Ma’an News Agency) | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A plan approved by Israel’s cabinet last week to provide half a […]

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censorship
Triumph of Diplomacy:  Iran, on cusp of Sanctions relief, releases 5 Iranian-American Detainees

Triumph of Diplomacy: Iran, on cusp of Sanctions relief, releases 5 Iranian-American Detainees

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Iranian news agencies announced Saturday that the government had released four dual nationals (Iranian-Americans with both […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Palestinian Kids Dodge Settler Attacks Daily

Palestinian Kids Dodge Settler Attacks Daily

AJ+ | – – “These Palestinian kids need an army escort to get to school.” AJ+: “Palestinian Kids Dodge Settler Attacks”

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