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China’s Power Sector Emissions fall 5.8% in Q1, as Renewables rapidly Replace Coal
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China’s Power Sector Emissions fall 5.8% in Q1, as Renewables rapidly Replace Coal

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Lauri Myllyvirta writes at Carbon Brief that China’s CO2 emissions over-all fell by 1% in the past 12 months, and […]

Trump and Bukele: The Few Repressing the Many

Trump and Bukele: The Few Repressing the Many

05/16/2025 By Foreign Policy in Focus

That Sucking Sound you hear is Trump Flushing America down the Toilet

That Sucking Sound you hear is Trump Flushing America down the Toilet

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China dominates Middle East Solar Sector as Trump hobbles Renewables in US

China dominates Middle East Solar Sector as Trump hobbles Renewables in US

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Chinese firms dominate the manufacture of photovoltaic solar panels, accounting for 80% of the global market (along with most elements […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Trump’s offshore Wind Energy Freeze: What States lose if the Executive Order remains in Place

Trump’s offshore Wind Energy Freeze: What States lose if the Executive Order remains in Place

By Barbara Kates-Garnick, Tufts University (The Conversation) – A single wind turbine spinning off the U.S. Northeast coast today can power thousands of homes – […]

The Conversation

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Facing the Rise of Fascism Like Fools for Freedom

Facing the Rise of Fascism Like Fools for Freedom

( Tomdispatch.com ) – This past weekend my partner and I got together with a group of friends. We’ve been meeting every six weeks or […]

Rebecca Gordon

Cold War
Trump, an American Stalin?  Massive Population Transfers were a Feature of Communist Dictatorship

Trump, an American Stalin? Massive Population Transfers were a Feature of Communist Dictatorship

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump’s proposal to ethnically cleanse Gaza of its 2.3 million Palestinians constitutes a profound reversal of post-1945 U.S. norms, which […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
A Hostile Corporate Takeover of our Democracy

A Hostile Corporate Takeover of our Democracy

Never before has one billionaire so thoroughly infiltrated our government and bent it to their will for personal gain. By Alex Jacquez, Elizabeth Pancotti ( […]

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Climate Crisis
Trump’s reversal of Climate Policies risks undermining U.S. Manufacturing — and could cost people Jobs

Trump’s reversal of Climate Policies risks undermining U.S. Manufacturing — and could cost people Jobs

By Thomas Stuart, University of Victoria (The Conversation) – United States President Donald Trump’s early executive actions have set American manufacturing on a collision course […]

The Conversation

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Ethnic Cleansing for “Gaza’s Riviera”? A Secret Israeli Memo and Trump’s Plan to Displace 2.3 million Palestinians

Ethnic Cleansing for “Gaza’s Riviera”? A Secret Israeli Memo and Trump’s Plan to Displace 2.3 million Palestinians

During a press conference with PM Netanyahu on Tuesday evening, President Trump said the United States “will take over” the Gaza Strip. Around the world, […]

Dan Steinbock

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The Greenland Ice Sheet is falling Apart – New Study

The Greenland Ice Sheet is falling Apart – New Study

By Tom Chudley, Durham University Observing Greenland from a helicopter, the main problem is one of comprehending scale. I have thought we were skimming low […]

The Conversation

Immigration
The Mass Deportation Handoff, Biden to Trump:  And the Booming Border-Industrial Complex

The Mass Deportation Handoff, Biden to Trump: And the Booming Border-Industrial Complex

By Todd Miller It didn’t take long for the border and immigration enforcement industry to react to Donald Trump’s reelection. On November 6th, as Bloomberg […]

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