Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The E3 — France, Britain and Germany — successfully led a bid at the UN Security Council Friday to reimpose […]
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No Sense of Urgency: Obama’s New Solar Energy Commitments are still Just Baby Steps
(By Juan Cole) President Obama has long expressed concern about climate change and its impacts, and was mocked by Mitt Romney for saying he wanted […]
Calif. Republican Smears Arab-American Libertarian Congressman as ‘al Qaeda’s best friend’
Michigan Republican Rep. Justin Amash found himself the target of intra-party criticism again, as a California colleague accused him of not being serious about his position and lying about the country’s surveillance policies in an interview published…
Top Ten Answers to global warming Deniers
Posted on 6 May 2014 by dana1981 Roy Spencer is one of the less than 3% of climate scientists whose research suggests that humans are playing a relatively minimal role in global warming. As one of those rare contrarian climate experts, he’s often asked…
How Myanmar’s government is making Buddhist violence toward Muslims worse
MEIKHTILA, Myanmar — “For three days,” Khine recalls, “our town was hell.” As the 32-year-old waitress tells it, the nightmare began with masked men waving Buddhist banners. Then came vigilantes, with torches and blades, butchering families…
Washington Militarizes Foreign Policy, but cuts Fulbright Cultural Exchange
(By Ann Jones via Tomdispatch.com) Ignorance can be dangerous, as shown in a recent poll asking Americans what to do about the Ukraine crisis. It […]
Top 10 Reasons GOP Benghazi Witch Hunt is just a Campaign Fundraising Ploy
(By Juan Cole) Since Obamacare is increasingly a wildly popular success, the GOP is flailing around looking for an issue, any issue to help fundraising […]
Nuke expert: Iran a decade from bomb, but PM playing politics
Former head of Israeli Atomic Energy Commission Uzi Eilam says Tehran may not even want nuke, but Netanyahu working public into lather for political gain
Boko Haram attack kills hundreds as Nigeria offers reward for girls
Boko Haram attack kills hundreds as Nigeria offers reward for girls (via AFP) A new Boko Haram massacre has killed hundreds in Nigeria’s northeast, a […]
Climate Change in the U.S. in 8 Frightening Charts
By Brian Kahn Follow @blkahn The newly released National Climate Assessment spans 30 chapters with thousands of references on how climate change is impacting the U.S. The report took more than 300 scientists and 4 years to prepare, including addressing…
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