Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Ember energy analysis firm has released its global electricity report for the first half of 2025, and it contains […]
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Can the Police Phone-Track you without a Warrant?
Hanni Fakhoury and Jennifer Lynch (Electronic Frontier Foundation) Once again, a federal court will decide whether police can track your movements over an extended period […]
Iraq Famine Threat? IS Daesh/ ISIL Stealing Wheat, Preventing Farmers from Providing Food?
JURF-AL-SAKHAR/DUBAI (IRIN) | — November is usually a busy month for farmers in the Iraqi town of Jurf al-Sakhar as they sow their seeds ahead […]
How Israel’s Bus Segregation Affects Palestinian Workers
AJ+ | — ‘Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon has argued for keeping Palestinian workers off of public Israeli buses. Yaalon says the laborers are dangerous […]
Thanksgiving was always about Climate and Adaptation: Let’s Make it Green Again
By Juan Cole | — The popular story about Thanksgiving is an environmental parable that we would do well to remember today. It was a […]
Turkish Pres. Erdogan says Women not Equal to Men: “Their System is Different.”
Euronews | — “The Turkish President has triggered fresh controversy, declaring in a speech that women are not equal to men. Recep Tayyip Erdogan also […]
What if it was Russia and China invading and Bombing? The Blindness of MSM and Washington
By Tom Engelhardt (Tomdispatch.com) | — Let’s play a game, the kind that makes no sense on this single-superpower planet of ours. For a moment, […]
Global Warming brings extreme Floods and Drought: World Bank
By Andrea Germanos, staff writer (Commondreams.org) “Even very ambitious mitigation” can’t change the fact that the world has already “locked in” mid-century warming of 1.5°C […]
Racial Fearmongering and Ferguson: US Stereotype of “violent” African-American Men as old as Slavery
By Peter Bloom, The Open University (The Conversation) The decision not to charge police officer Darren Wilson with the unlawful shooting of unarmed teen Michael […]
Race inequality between US Whites and African-Americans by the Numbers (Again)
By Juan Cole | — With regard to employment, African-Americans got hit harder by the Bush Depression than did whites, and jobs have not come […]
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