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The Republican Party Persecuted US Leftists for tilting to Moscow but Makes Excuses for Putin-Loving Trump
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump’s fawning admiration of Vladimir Putin is well known, but it has often been brushed off as a quirk. We […]
Why Putin’s War against Ukraine is Illegal in International Law
By Hurst Hannum | – Both international law and the United Nations Charter say that countries should not invade each other. But who has the […]
Scorching the Earth: When Big Oil and Gas Flare, the Methane traps 80x as Much Heat as C02
By Nicole Sadek, Zoha Tunio and Sarah Hunt | Howard Center for Investigative Journalism< When companies flare, they do more than burn natural gas. They […]
Climate-related damage to German forests ‘unprecedented’: German Aerospace Center
By Edgar Meza | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – Researchers at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) have for the first time determined how […]
How Bush’s Iraq Fiasco ruined US Credibility and Enabled Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – George W. Bush issued a statement about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It went like this: DALLAS, TEXAS – “Russia’s […]
Russia in Ukraine: Basing Land Claims on Ethnicity/History rather than Int’l Law always leads to Bloody Conflict
From: The Conversation: The first casualty of war, says historian Ronald Suny, is not just the truth. Often, he says, “it is what is left […]
It’s Settled That Israel Is Committing the Crime of Apartheid—Now What Should We Do About It?
( Commondreams.org ) – When Amnesty International released its report “Israel’s Apartheid Against Palestinians: Cruel System of Domination and Crime Against Humanity” earlier the month, […]
China is Rising as a Superpower by vastly Expanding Planet-Wrecking Fossil Fuels
( Tomdispatch.com ) – Consider us at the edge of the sort of epochal change not seen for centuries, even millennia. By the middle of […]
By Blocking Green Energy, Manchin and Republicans are Siding with Russia and Endangering US National Security
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Vladimir Putin just made you poorer. Your retirement funds invested in the stock market just tanked. The cost of getting […]
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