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Ukraine war shows it’s time to do away with the racist ‘Clash of Civilizations’ theory
By Katherine Bullock, University of Toronto | – “The clash of civilizations,” wrote the late American political scientist Samuel Huntington in a famous 1993 article, […]
The Costs of (Another) War: When We Could Be Fighting Climate Change
By Andrea Mazzarino | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – What do a six-year-old in the United States and an 85-year-old in Russia have in common […]
How Israel’s Indiscriminate bombing of Gaza Endangers its Precious Hellenistic and Roman Archeological Heritage
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Palestinian Gaza Strip doesn’t stay on the world’s mind the way some besieged cities in Ukraine do right now, […]
Will the Climate Crisis Cause the Next Great Global Conflict?
Oslo (Special to Informed Comment) – In November 1970 the Great Bhola Cyclone smashed into the southern coast of what is now Bangladesh, killing 500,000 […]
We must turn solidarity with Ukraine into the new normal for all refugees
By Nicolas Haeringer | – ( Waging Nonviolence ) – Since Russia started its war on Ukraine, we’ve seen a tremendous outpouring of solidarity with […]
The Taliban is holding girls’ education hostage in Afghanistan – the question is, why?
By Sippi Azarbaijani Moghaddam, University of St Andrews | – Afghan children and teenagers have not had much to look forward to since the Taliban […]
Stanford U. Electricity now 100% Green, with Savings of $ .5 Billion; Why aren’t more Universities in Forefront of Climate Battle?
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Chelci Adami of the Stanford Report writes that Stanford University has transitioned to 100% renewable electricity. The Stanford Solar Generating […]
The US Should Remember that Israel’s Squatter-Settlements in Palestine are War Crimes
( Middle East Monitor ) – US Ambassador to Israel, Tom Nides, engaged in further diplomatic contradictions, as he fluctuated between asserting the Biden administration’s […]
In 20 years of studying how ecosystems absorb carbon, here’s why we’re worried about a tipping point of collapse
By Caitlin Moore, David Campbell, Helen Cleugh, Jamie Cleverly, Jason Beringer, Lindsay Hutley, and Mark Grant | – From rainforests to savannas, ecosystems on land […]
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