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Global Battle Royale at COP30 between Fossil Fuel Producers and Green Energy Advocates
Climate Crisis

Global Battle Royale at COP30 between Fossil Fuel Producers and Green Energy Advocates

Juan Cole

A bloc is attempting to deep-six the pledge made at COP28 to “transition away from fossil fuels.”

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Protesting Canada’s Detention of Former UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falk over Palestine Rights Advocacy

Protesting Canada’s Detention of Former UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falk over Palestine Rights Advocacy

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Trump using Jews to Ban Free Speech: The Ultimate in Antisemitism

Trump using Jews to Ban Free Speech: The Ultimate in Antisemitism

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Headwear and Hegemony: how ‘Turban Tossing’ Protests are threatening Iran’s ruling Clergy

Headwear and Hegemony: how ‘Turban Tossing’ Protests are threatening Iran’s ruling Clergy

By Negar Partow, Massey University | – (The Conversation) – The ongoing protests in Iran over the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini while in the […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
The MAGAfication of America: The White Nationalist Coup isn’t Over

The MAGAfication of America: The White Nationalist Coup isn’t Over

By Clarence Lusane | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – Just in case you didn’t notice, authoritarianism was on the ballot in the 2022 midterm elections. An […]

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Israel: Netanyahu puts Homophobic Fundamentalist who doesn’t think most American Jews are Jewish in Charge of Office of Jewish Identity

Israel: Netanyahu puts Homophobic Fundamentalist who doesn’t think most American Jews are Jewish in Charge of Office of Jewish Identity

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – So Noam is a far right Jewish fundamentalist party in Israel that has a connection to the Har Hamor seminary […]

Juan Cole

China
A Letter to President Joe Biden: About that pledge you Made of “Diplomacy First”

A Letter to President Joe Biden: About that pledge you Made of “Diplomacy First”

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment) – Dear Joe, Remember the mid-March snowball fight with some boys in our 8th grade class at St Helena’s […]

H. Patricia Hynes

Climate Crisis
To fight the Climate Crisis, We need to stop expanding Offshore Drilling for Oil and Gas

To fight the Climate Crisis, We need to stop expanding Offshore Drilling for Oil and Gas

By Daniel Skerritt, University of British Columbia and Claire Huang, Duke University | – Environmental disaster struck the shores of Peru on Jan. 15, 2022, […]

The Conversation

Israel
Israel Must not Include Fascist Parties in its New Government:  L.A. Jews for Peace

Israel Must not Include Fascist Parties in its New Government: L.A. Jews for Peace

LA Jews for Peace Policy Statement Los Angeles, CA. November 28, 2022 Contact: info@LAJewsforPeace.org Israel must not include Fascist Parties in its New Government LA […]

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Could Iran's Kurdish Protests and the Ayatollahs' Determination to Crush Them Destabilize Neighboring Iraq?

Could Iran’s Kurdish Protests and the Ayatollahs’ Determination to Crush Them Destabilize Neighboring Iraq?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The protests roiling Iran this fall have had an epicenter in Iranian Kurdistan in the west of the country. The […]

Juan Cole

Corporations
Parasitic Private Equity is Consuming U.S. Health Care from the Inside Out

Parasitic Private Equity is Consuming U.S. Health Care from the Inside Out

Gainesville, Fl. (Special to Informed Comment) – Private equity has succeeded in depicting itself as part of the productive economy of health care services. even […]

F. Douglas Stephenson

Australia
First-Nations-Led Youth Win Climate/ Human Rights Case against Mammoth Coal Mine in Australia

First-Nations-Led Youth Win Climate/ Human Rights Case against Mammoth Coal Mine in Australia

By Justine Bell-James, The University of Queensland | – In a historic ruling today, a Queensland court has said the massive Clive Palmer-owned Galilee Basin […]

Juan Cole

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