Beijing raised its profile at the annual Shanghai Cooperation Council summit of non-Western countries just by providing a forum. London (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) […]
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Transparency can Help Cut Carbon Emissions: Don’t let Polluting Corporations Hide
By Richard Holden | – World leaders and about 30,000 others from assorted interest groups will converge on Glasgow in November for the United Nations’ […]
Green Energy initiatives in Dem Infrastructure Bill infinitely Cheaper than a gradualist phase-out of Fossil Fuels
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The green energy proposals in the $3.5 trillion Democratic Party infrastructure bill now being heatedly debated have been attacked from […]
How Gerrymandering Threatens Democracy
By Arnold J. Oliver | – Tiffin, Oh. (Special to Informed Comment) – Right now, Ohio, Michigan and other states are in the process of […]
A Parable of (All-American) Violence: Accountability and the War of Terror
By Kelly Denton-Borhaug | ( Tomdispatch.com ) – As a religious studies professor, I know a parable when I see one. Consider the 20th anniversary […]
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 […]
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