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When even Saudi Arabia Jumps into Solar and Wind Power, You know Change is Here
Climate Crisis

When even Saudi Arabia Jumps into Solar and Wind Power, You know Change is Here

Juan Cole

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 […]

How Europe is managing Guilt over Gaza: The Politics of moral Cleansing

How Europe is managing Guilt over Gaza: The Politics of moral Cleansing

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Trump Junk: Won’t Enforce Rules for Short-Term Junk Health Insurance Plans

Trump Junk: Won’t Enforce Rules for Short-Term Junk Health Insurance Plans

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Germany: Renewables stocks surge as govt renews vow to speed up expansion amid Ukraine war

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 […]

Clean Energy Wire

Donald Trump
Can the Republican Party shake its Putin Habit, as Pence takes on Trump?

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 […]

Juan Cole

racism
GOP Hostility to Ketanji Brown Jackson Goes Beyond Hypocrisy

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 […]

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racism
Our Double Standards on War and Refugees

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 […]

Michael Jansen

Nonviolence
Ukraine: Nonviolent Resistance is a brave and often effective Response to Aggression

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 […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Russia's war Crime in Targeting Nuclear Plant Reminds us Why we Should rush to Wind and Solar

Russia’s war Crime in Targeting Nuclear Plant Reminds us Why we Should rush to Wind and Solar

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Russian tank shelling of the massive Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in the city of Energodar, which set fire to the […]

Juan Cole

nuclear weapons
Worried about nuclear war? You can actually do something to prevent it

Worried about nuclear war? You can actually do something to prevent it

By Frida Berrigan | – ( Waging Nonviolence ) – Ukraine is on fire. Russia is using cluster and thermobaric bombs, targetting civilians, killing children […]

Frida Berrigan

Nuclear Energy
Military action in radioactive Chernobyl could be dangerous for people and the environment

Military action in radioactive Chernobyl could be dangerous for people and the environment

By Timothy A. Mousseau, University of South Carolina | – The site of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine has been surrounded for […]

The Conversation

Authoritarianism
The River of Refugees becomes a Flood as 84 Million flee War, Violence and Tyranny

The River of Refugees becomes a Flood as 84 Million flee War, Violence and Tyranny

( Tomdispatch.com ) – We live on a planet in motion, a world of collision and drift. This was once an Earth of super-continents — […]

Nick Turse

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