Montréal (Special to Informed Comment; Featured) – With missiles flying across West Asia, I am reminded of my trip to Iran in 2016, when I […]
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Harvard study links fracking to early death risk for seniors
By Laureen Fagan: ( Sustainability Times) – Most people know it as fracking, a process of drilling for gas and oil using methods like hydraulic […]
EVs are Freedom Cars: When you Fill up your Car with Gasoline, you’re Helping Putin Destroy Ukraine
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Alex Mills writes that Russia produces 11 million barrels a day of petroleum and in 2021 exported 7.5 million barrels […]
Let’s Go after the Ill-Gotten, Tax-Evading Gains of All Oligarchs, not just Russian Ones
( Inequality.org ) – Can we please get serious about taxing the rich? Polls show that hefty majorities of people in the United States — […]
IPCC report: Half the world is facing water scarcity, floods and dirty water — large investments are needed for effective solutions
By Balsher Singh Sidhu, University of British Columbia | – More than half the world’s population faces water scarcity for at least one month every […]
Germany: Renewables stocks surge as govt renews vow to speed up expansion amid Ukraine war
By Kerstine Appunn | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – German renewables stocks have surged amid prospects of an accelerated energy transition after the […]
Can the Republican Party shake its Putin Habit, as Pence takes on Trump?
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump’s response to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin’s horrific invasion of Ukraine was to call Vlad the Invader a “genius.” A […]
GOP Hostility to Ketanji Brown Jackson Goes Beyond Hypocrisy
( Otherwords.org ) – Republicans complain about “reverse discrimination” on the Supreme Court. Their real complaint is against constitutional democracy. By Mitchell Zimmerman | March […]
Our Double Standards on War and Refugees
By Michael Jansen | – ( Gulf Today ) – Demonstrators attend a rally in support of Ukraine after Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized a […]
Ukraine: Nonviolent Resistance is a brave and often effective Response to Aggression
By Alexandre Christoyannopoulos | – Responses to the Russian invasion have been swift. Thousands of people both in Ukraine and abroad are enlisting to fight […]
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