Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The American Meteorological Society has issued its annual climate report, this one summarizing changes in 2024 now that all the […]
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Egypt: Crowds at Presidential Palace Break through Barbed Wire, President offers Dialogue
On Saturday morning, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood held a news conference in which its leader, Muhammad Badie, insisted that the so-called opposition in Egypt is […]
Senate Wraps up Investigation of CIA Rights Abuses but You’ll Likely Never See it (Currier)
Cora Currier writes at ProPublica A Senate committee is close to putting the final stamp on a massive report on the CIA’s detention, interrogation and […]
Syria Rebels make Advances as Hillary Clinton calls for ‘a Concerted Push’ for Democratic Transition (Videos)
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for a ‘concerted push’ on Friday to begin a political transition in Syria. She said that the transition […]
Egypt; New Demos; Obama Expresses Alarm; and al-Azhar Clerics condemn Constitution
US President Barack Obama called Egyptian President Muhammad Morsi on Thursday to express his anxiety about the violence that broke out on Wednesday in front […]
Another thing Utah Could learn from Kenya: Olkaria IV Geothermal Plant to be largest in World
Utah did not vote for President Obama, whose father hailed from Kenya. But that state has something else to learn from the east African country. […]
America is officially a Center-Left Country (Young Turks)
On how America is a center-left country, and the younger voters are more left wing than their elders. Cenk Uygur of Current TV’s “Young Turks” […]
President Obama needs to get us Out of Iran, too– not Just Iraq (Escobar)
Pepe Escobar writes at Tomdispatch.com: Let’s start with the obvious but important: on entering the Oval Office in January 2009, President Obama inherited a seemingly […]
Egypt: Faction Fighting in the Streets Threatens Stability, leaves 5 dead, 450 wounded
Egypt has descended into faction-fighting in the streets that left some 5 dead and 450 wounded on Wednesday, as President Muhammad Morsi prepared to make […]
Avoiding the Nightmarish “Four Degree World” of 2060: We must Act Now (Giesen)
Tom Giesen writes in a guest column for Informed Comment: Global warming’s disasters once seemed far off and science-fictional. It is now becoming clear to […]
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