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State of Climate: Earth Hottest on Record again, as CO2 still Climbs and Glaciers Wilt
Climate Crisis

State of Climate: Earth Hottest on Record again, as CO2 still Climbs and Glaciers Wilt

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The American Meteorological Society has issued its annual climate report, this one summarizing changes in 2024 now that all the […]

New data shows No Kings was One of the largest Days of Protest in US history

New data shows No Kings was One of the largest Days of Protest in US history

08/17/2025 By Waging Nonviolence

Iran’s Nature is under Threat – here’s how better environmental Stewardship can save it

Iran’s Nature is under Threat – here’s how better environmental Stewardship can save it

08/17/2025 By The Conversation

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Climate Crisis
Violently Melting Down: The Human Costs of Global Heating and of our Response to it

Violently Melting Down: The Human Costs of Global Heating and of our Response to it

By Stan Cox | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Several times in recent weeks I’ve heard people suggest that Mother Nature has been speaking to […]

Tomdispatch

Featured
Biden Administration bows to Int'l Law, Ceases funding Israeli research done on Stolen Land in Palestinian West Bank

Biden Administration bows to Int’l Law, Ceases funding Israeli research done on Stolen Land in Palestinian West Bank

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Biden administration has reverted to the longstanding practice of not funding Israeli institutions in the Palestinian West Bank. AFP […]

Juan Cole

Feminism
Unveiling Resistance: The Struggle for Women's Rights in Iran

Unveiling Resistance: The Struggle for Women’s Rights in Iran

Tara Sepehri Far Iran and Kuwait Senior Researcher, Middle East and North Africa Division   @sepehrifar ( Human Rights Watch ) – The sweeping public […]

Human Rights Watch

Israel/ Palestine
Israel Approves thousands of illegal Building Permits in Palestinian West Bank

Israel Approves thousands of illegal Building Permits in Palestinian West Bank

( Middle East Monitor ) – Israel’s nationalist-religious government approved the construction of 5,700 additional illegal housing units for Jewish settlers in the Occupied West Bank on […]

Middle East Monitor

Corporations
Plastic Pollution: Campaigners around the World are using the Courts to Clean Up, but Manufacturers are Fighting Back

Plastic Pollution: Campaigners around the World are using the Courts to Clean Up, but Manufacturers are Fighting Back

By Sam Varvastian, Cardiff University | – Plastic pollution has become such major problem that it’s threatening our human rights. That’s the view of two […]

The Conversation

Batteries
Wind and Solar are Saving Texas from Brownouts during deadly Heat Dome, but Republicans want to Abolish Them

Wind and Solar are Saving Texas from Brownouts during deadly Heat Dome, but Republicans want to Abolish Them

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Kristoffer Tigue at Inside Climate News reports that climate change made the brutal heat wave assaulting Texas worse, but that […]

Juan Cole

Displaced and Refugees
Put People’s Rights first in Syria Sanctions

Put People’s Rights first in Syria Sanctions

Human Rights Watch – (Beirut) – The United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Union should urgently renew the earthquake-related humanitarian exemptions they introduced […]

Human Rights Watch

Climate Crisis
Is Climate Change outpacing our Ability to predict extreme Heatwaves?

Is Climate Change outpacing our Ability to predict extreme Heatwaves?

By Damien Irving, CSIRO and James Risbey, CSIRO | – When an extreme weather event happens somewhere in the world these days, it’s common to […]

The Conversation

Far Right
Yes, We have home-grown Fascists: And Now They’re beginning to say the quiet Part Out Loud

Yes, We have home-grown Fascists: And Now They’re beginning to say the quiet Part Out Loud

( Tomdispatch.com ) – One day when I was about six, I was walking with my dad in New York City. We noticed that someone […]

Rebecca Gordon

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