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

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

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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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Trump’s Envoy Witkoff on Gaza Deal:  “Now We Have to Implement it”

Trump’s Envoy Witkoff on Gaza Deal: “Now We Have to Implement it”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – President Trump’s Special Envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, gave an interview with Fox Cable News. Below I will […]

Juan Cole

Nonviolence
Can nonviolent Struggle defeat a Dictator? This Database emphatically says Yes

Can nonviolent Struggle defeat a Dictator? This Database emphatically says Yes

The Global Nonviolent Action Database details some 40 cases of mass movements overcoming tyrants through strategic nonviolent campaigns. ( Waging Nonviolence ) – With Donald […]

George Lakey

Salafis
Syria’s New Government is already Oppressing Women, Posing a dire Threat to their Future

Syria’s New Government is already Oppressing Women, Posing a dire Threat to their Future

By Vrinda Narain, McGill University and Fatemeh Sadeghi, UCL (The Conversation) – As the international community celebrates the fall of another dictatorship following the collapse […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Trumpocalypse:  What Turbocharged Carbon Will Do to Our Children

Trumpocalypse: What Turbocharged Carbon Will Do to Our Children

I am reprinting my column this week from Tomdispatch.com . Check in over there for the essential introduction of the invaluable Tom Engelhardt. My name […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
The long-term Impact of Israel’s Gaza Genocide will only become Clear as the Toxic Dust Settles

The long-term Impact of Israel’s Gaza Genocide will only become Clear as the Toxic Dust Settles

by Dr Emma Keelan   by Dr Brendan Ciarán Browne ( Middle East Monitor ) – As the toxic dust begins to settle, it is […]

Middle East Monitor

Plutocracy
The Far Right, the Tech Bro Oligarchy, and Zionism

The Far Right, the Tech Bro Oligarchy, and Zionism

Musk serves as Trump’s ideal dancing partner in the chaotic spectacle of the dismantlement of the last fragile remnants of public welfare, writes Yoav Litvin. […]

Yoav Litvin

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The Qur’an’s Celebration of Diverse Skin Colors: Forms of Equality in the Muslim Scripture

The Qur’an’s Celebration of Diverse Skin Colors: Forms of Equality in the Muslim Scripture

I am reprinting part of this essay that appeared in Renovatio, the literary magazine of a small Muslim liberal arts college — Zaytuna — in […]

Juan Cole

Antisemitism
Death shaded the Life of this Holocaust historian. The cancer Memoir he began in Hospital was a final ‘Act of Love’

Death shaded the Life of this Holocaust historian. The cancer Memoir he began in Hospital was a final ‘Act of Love’

By Tess Scholfield-Peters, University of Technology Sydney (The Conversation) – Mark Raphael Baker began writing his final book, A Season of Death, from his hospital […]

The Conversation

Arctic
The Alarming Findings of AI Model that analysed Millions of Images of retreating Glaciers

The Alarming Findings of AI Model that analysed Millions of Images of retreating Glaciers

By Tian Li, University of Bristol; Jonathan Bamber, University of Bristol, and Konrad Heidler, Technical University of Munich (The Conversation) – The Arctic has warmed […]

The Conversation

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