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Whether Gov’ts like it or not, Coal Plants are doomed by Cheap Solar and Wind Power
By James Ha and Alison Reeve | The international climate summit in Glasgow aimed to “consign coal power to history”. But while some major coal-consuming […]
Lincoln’s Invention of Thanksgiving was all About how Black Lives Matter
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Thanksgiving Day, as is well known, was an invented tradition arising from the Civil War, promoted by Abraham Lincoln and […]
Having Left the Iran Nuclear Deal, can the US revive it with the seventh round in Vienna?
By Hani Habeeb | – ( Middle East Monitor) – While the American Special Representative to Iran, Robert Malley, surprised observers of the nuclear file […]
No, Modern Warfare is not “Accurate” or “Accountable” and dead Innocents are not “Collateral Damage”
By Lauren Gould, Jolle Demmers, and Nora Stel | – The US military is facing allegations it covered up civilian casualty cases in the US-led […]
Pandemic History: The Great Plague of Justinian in the 500s AD was a Black Death that Shaped the Century before Islam
Research News of the University of Cambridge | – ‘Plague sceptics’ are wrong to underestimate the devastating impact that bubonic plague had in the 6th– […]
Apple Sues Israeli gov’t-backed NSO Spyware Company: “Notorious Hackers – Amoral 21st C. Mercenaries”
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Apple is suing the NSO group, which produced the spyware that Israel uses to keep under surveillance the 5 million […]
‘It’s My Decision’: Iran’s New Population Law Blasted For Restricting Access To Contraceptives, Abortions
By Golnaz Esfandiari and Elahe Ravanshad | – ( RFL/RE ) – Authorities have approved new legislation that imposes further restrictions on abortions, bans the […]
Climate Emergency: Big Oil wants to go on drilling while greenwashing with imaginary “Carbon Capture”
By June Sekera and Neva Goodwin | – After decades of sowing doubt about climate change and its causes, the fossil fuel industry is now […]
Mars Attacks Earth! And we’re the Martians in this Picture
( Tomdispatch.com) – Who knew that Martians, inside monstrous tripodal machines taller than many buildings, actually ululated, that they made eerily haunting “ulla, ulla, ulla, […]
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