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We are What we Eat: A Step We all Can take to Fight Climate Breakdown
Climate Crisis

We are What we Eat: A Step We all Can take to Fight Climate Breakdown

H. Patricia Hynes

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Nuclear physicist Edward Teller predicted in 1959 that the risks of burning fossil fuels, by increasing carbon […]

FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 2

FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 2

08/07/2025 By Juan Cole

The Verdict of History: How political Calculations betrayed Gaza

The Verdict of History: How political Calculations betrayed Gaza

08/07/2025 By Ramzy Baroud

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Banking
Turkey’s currency crisis is a textbook example of what not to do with interest rates

Turkey’s currency crisis is a textbook example of what not to do with interest rates

By Gulcin Ozkan | – Central banks around the globe are currently staring at inflation rates unseen in more than 20 years. Supply chain problems […]

The Conversation

Denialism
Fauci on Ted Cruz asking for his Ouster:  "What happened on Jan. 6th, Senator?" "I'll be saving lives and they'll be lying."

Fauci on Ted Cruz asking for his Ouster: “What happened on Jan. 6th, Senator?” “I’ll be saving lives and they’ll be lying.”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – CBS’s Margaret Brennan interviewed Dr. Anthony Fauci on Sunday for Face the Nation and got some fireworks. Brennan asked Fauci […]

Juan Cole

Bill of Rights
Evangelical Politicians, using Israel as a Pretext, are Gutting the Constitution by Banning Boycotts

Evangelical Politicians, using Israel as a Pretext, are Gutting the Constitution by Banning Boycotts

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment) – Israel has concluded a very unholy alliance with the American Evangelical Community, as support among progressive U.S. Jews […]

H. Scott Prosterman

African-Americans
How Government Policy created the New Urban Black-White Segregation and Failing Inner Cities

How Government Policy created the New Urban Black-White Segregation and Failing Inner Cities

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment) – For many years, I worked in Boston public housing with teams of residents, community organizations, public housing staff […]

H. Patricia Hynes

Displaced and Refugees
Channel deaths of Middle Easterners: the UK has clear legal responsibilities towards people crossing in small boats

Channel deaths of Middle Easterners: the UK has clear legal responsibilities towards people crossing in small boats

By Mariagiulia Giuffré | – At least 27 people have drowned in the English Channel attempting to cross in a small boat. There were three […]

The Conversation

Authoritarianism
As Climate Emergency Shakes Iran, Government Attacks, arrests Water Protesters at Isfahan, wounding 3

As Climate Emergency Shakes Iran, Government Attacks, arrests Water Protesters at Isfahan, wounding 3

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – After two weeks of protests by thousands of farmers in the dry riverbed of the historic Zayandeh Rud river in […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
74 Years ago, the UN General Assembly overstepped and stole the Palestinians' Country from Them

74 Years ago, the UN General Assembly overstepped and stole the Palestinians’ Country from Them

By Sayid Marcos Tenório | – On 29 November, 1947, the newly-created United Nations (UN) approved the Palestine Partition Plan and started the Nakba process. […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
Will Germany's New Climate Super Minister Robert Habeck Super Charge the Clean Energy Transition?

Will Germany’s New Climate Super Minister Robert Habeck Super Charge the Clean Energy Transition?

By Sören Amelang | – ( Clean Energy Wire) – As Germany’s first climate “super minister”, Green politician Robert Habeck will play a key role […]

Clean Energy Wire

Climate Crisis
Electric cars aren’t enough to hit climate targets: we need to develop better public transport too

Electric cars aren’t enough to hit climate targets: we need to develop better public transport too

By Vera O’Riordan | – Transport is responsible for 24% of energy-related carbon emissions worldwide. Half of those emissions are from carrying goods and services, […]

The Conversation

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