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 […]
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A short History of Climate Change and Civilization that does not End Well (XKCD Webcomic)
Randall Munroe, XKCD: A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. Via Randall Munroe, XKCD: A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. This work […]
Did a Cosmic Airburst inspire the Myth of Sodom and inadvertently Spark millennia of Homophobia?
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a new paper in Nature archeologists Ted E. Bunch and Malcolm A. LeCompte et al. present their findings that […]
U.S. Militarism’s Toxic Impact on Climate Policy
( Code Pink ) – President Biden addressed the UN General on September 21 with a warning that the climate crisis is fast approaching a […]
If US Followed its own Safeguards, the Taliban and IS-K wouldn’t have captured so many US Weapons
By Nolan Fahrenkopf | – The weapons and military equipment left behind by the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, including through the collapse of the Afghan […]
The military stood up to Donald Trump. Who will now stand up to the military?
( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – When he was trying to win the Vietnam War, Richard Nixon famously told his chief of staff that […]
At UN, Biden Pivots from 20-year War to Global Alliance against the Climate Emergency
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – President Joe Biden addressed the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, laying out his vision of […]
A Chill Wind: Texas Unleashes Bounty Hunters on Women
( Otherwords.org) – For now, the Supreme Court has allowed Texas to sic bounty hunters on women seeking constitutionally protected abortions. By Martha Burk | […]
The Profits of War: How Corporate America Cashed in on the Post-9/11 Pentagon Spending Surge
( Tomdispatch.com) – The costs and consequences of America’s twenty-first-century wars have by now been well-documented — a staggering $8 trillion in expenditures and more […]
Afghanistan’s war rug industry: Profits and Everyday Trauma
By Jamal J. Elias | – The end of the U.S.-led military intervention in Afghanistan has resulted in the withdrawal of most foreign aid workers […]
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