Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Saudi Arabia’s massive oil deposits and its 9.53 million barrels per day (bpd) of petroleum production make it an enormous […]
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‘There’s no such Thing as someone else’s Children’ – Omar El Akkad bears witness to the Destruction of Gaza and the West’s quiet Assent
By Clare Corbould, Deakin University (The Conversation) – Omar El Akkad does not want you to look away. An award-winning journalist and novelist, El Akkad […]
California Strikes Back: Trump Poked the Golden Bear
Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – California Governor Gavin Newsom assumed the mantle of national leadership when he announced California’s “Election Rigging Response […]
Now the New Year is Reviving old Desires: FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:4
The fourth quatrain in Edward FitzGerald’s 1859 first edition of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is: IV Now the New Year is reviving old Desires, […]
The West’s Long Struggle Against Genocide Prevention
Q&A with Dr Steinbock on The Obliteration Doctrine: Part 2 DG Team ( Difference Group ) – The second part of Dr Steinbock’s highly topical […]
“I Have a Nightmare:” How Trump Is Spitting on the Grave of Martin Luther King Jr.
( Tomdispatch.com ) – On January 20th, Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office with — at least in his mind — an aura of […]
State of Climate: Earth Hottest on Record again, as CO2 still Climbs and Glaciers Wilt
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
The historic number of No Kings Day protesters and their expansive geographic spread are signs of a growing and durable pro-democracy movement. Erica Chenoweth, Soha […]
Iran’s Nature is under Threat – here’s how better environmental Stewardship can save it
By Shooka Bidarian, United Nations University and Mark Maslin, UCL (The Conversation) – From arid deserts and alpine meadows to dense wetlands and temperate forests, […]
Psychopathocracy 3.0
This essay was first published in January 2017. It seems even more prescient 8 and a half years later. At that time I could not […]
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