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State of Climate: Earth Hottest on Record again, as CO2 still Climbs and Glaciers Wilt
Climate Crisis

State of Climate: Earth Hottest on Record again, as CO2 still Climbs and Glaciers Wilt

Juan Cole

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

New data shows No Kings was One of the largest Days of Protest in US history

08/17/2025 By Waging Nonviolence

Iran’s Nature is under Threat – here’s how better environmental Stewardship can save it

Iran’s Nature is under Threat – here’s how better environmental Stewardship can save it

08/17/2025 By The Conversation

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Climate Crisis
Global Heating of more than 3°C this Century may wipe 40% off the world’s Economy

Global Heating of more than 3°C this Century may wipe 40% off the world’s Economy

By Timothy Neal, UNSW Sydney (The Conversation) – The damage climate change will inflict on the world’s economy is likely to have been massively underestimated, […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
The Cost of Trump’s War on Federal Workers: an Eyewitness Account

The Cost of Trump’s War on Federal Workers: an Eyewitness Account

( Tomdispatch.com ) – The second administration of President Donald J. Trump has already started working its special magic across the Washington, D.C. capital region. […]

Andrea Mazzarino

Climate Crisis
Big Banks accept a Catastrophic 5.4º F. Temperature Rise, Hope to sell People more Air Conditioners

Big Banks accept a Catastrophic 5.4º F. Temperature Rise, Hope to sell People more Air Conditioners

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Corbin Hiar reports at the Scientific American that the big banks are now banking on a 5.4º F. (3º Celsius) […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Int’l Red Cross Outraged by Israel’s killing of Medics, First Responders in Gaza

Int’l Red Cross Outraged by Israel’s killing of Medics, First Responders in Gaza

( Middle East Monitor ) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Sunday expressed outrage after eight paramedics from the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS), five […]

Middle East Monitor

Academic Freedom
Protesting Harvard’s Dismissal of Directors of its Mideast Center over Israel-Palestine as Attack on Academic Freedom

Protesting Harvard’s Dismissal of Directors of its Mideast Center over Israel-Palestine as Attack on Academic Freedom

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Committee on Academic Freedom Alan Garber  President, Harvard University . . . Dear President […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

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Iran Rejects direct talks with Trump despite threat that “There will be Bombing.”

Iran Rejects direct talks with Trump despite threat that “There will be Bombing.”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian met with his cabinet on Sunday, according to the president’s website, and announced that Trump’s offer […]

Juan Cole

China
China Displaces the U.S. as Global Leader in Research, with 9 of top 10 Institutions

China Displaces the U.S. as Global Leader in Research, with 9 of top 10 Institutions

Nine of the world’s top 10 research institutions are now Chinese. By Imran Khalid ( Foreign Policy in Focus) – In the last decade, a […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

Donald Trump
Can Fortress Europe survive Trump, Putin and the new Political Dark Age?

Can Fortress Europe survive Trump, Putin and the new Political Dark Age?

( Tomdispatch.com ) – The news of Rodrigo Duterte’s arrest surprised me. It’s not that I doubted the former leader of the Philippines was guilty […]

John Feffer

Climate Crisis
Your Gasoline Car is an Engine of Trump’s Fascism: Resistance requires going Green

Your Gasoline Car is an Engine of Trump’s Fascism: Resistance requires going Green

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Mussolini defined fascism as the “merger of state and corporate power.” But not all corporations are equally complicit. Obviously, our […]

Juan Cole

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