Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – As the Trump Department of Energy and the Republican tax bill try to kneecap solar energy in the United States, […]
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Jeb Bush Thinks You Don’t Work Hard Enough
Cenk Uygur | (The Young Turks Video) | – – “Jeb Bush has an interesting idea on how to boost economic growth: people should just […]
Iraq: As Battle Royale to take Falluja from Daesh/ ISIL Looms, Fears for Civilians
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Falluja is surrounded and under siege by the Iraqi Army and its Shiite militia auxiliaries, as […]
While Saudi Arabia Goes to War Abroad, It’s Simmering at Home
By Giorgio Cafiero and Daniel Wagner | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | – To hear Saudi leaders tell it, the primary threat to the kingdom’s […]
4 Million Syrian Displaced Abroad: ‘Biggest Refugee Population From a Single Conflict in a Generation’
By Kanya D’Almeida | – – UNITED NATIONS, (IPS) – Barely 10 months ago, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said the refugee population from […]
What is terrorism? The Charleston massacre and Palestinian resistance
By Heike Schotten | (Ma’an News Agency) | – Well before the advent of the US “War on Terror,” Edward Said wrote: “As a word […]
Dirty Energy vs. Clean Power The Past Battles the Future at Seneca Lake
By Ellen Cantarow | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – Let’s amend the famous line from Joni Mitchell’s “Yellow Taxi” to fit this moment in the Finger […]
South Carolina removes the Physical Flag: Can it remove the Spiritual Illness of Racial Discrimination?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The South Carolina legislature has voted to remove the Confederate flag from the grounds of the […]
Amira Hass: “Let me be blunt: Gaza is a Huge Concentration Camp”
By Amira Hass / Julie Poucher Harbin | ( ISLAMICommentary) | – – by JULIE POUCHER HARBIN, EDITOR, ISLAMiCommentary Amira Hass, Haaretz correspondent for the […]
Big Oil, Coal Racketeering: Corp. Memos Reveal Decades of Climate Lies
Union of Concerned Scientists | (Video Report) | – – “For nearly three decades, many of the world’s largest fossil fuel companies have knowingly worked […]