Sacramento (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The traditional left–right political spectrum no longer captures the forces driving division in America today. That model works […]
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New US climate pledge: Cut emissions 50% this decade, but can Biden make it happen?
By Morgan Bazilian and David Victor | – President Joe Biden announced an ambitious new national climate target at a livestreamed summit of world leaders […]
Amid Chauvin trial and more police killings, we need to stress Boycotts and the ‘Noncooperation’ in ‘Nonviolent Noncooperation’
By Maria J. Stephan | – ( Waging Nonviolence) – In his March 1956 sermon “When Peace Becomes Obnoxious,” Martin Luther King, Jr. responded to […]
Why We Forget Epidemics and Why This One Must Be Remembered
By Nina Burleigh | – The second Moderna shot made me sick — as predicted. A 24-hour touch of what an alarmed immune system feels […]
A big Effing Deal: On Eve of Climate Summit, news that Biden will cut US C02 Emissions 50% by 2030
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – ( Matthew Daly at the Associated Press reports that President Biden will announce at Thursday’s virtual international Climate Summit that […]
Afghanistan’s Green Future? Earth Minerals and Renewables
( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – Can Afghanistan’s mineral wealth finance a transition to a carbon-neutral future? By John Feffer | April 21, 2021 […]
On Top of Causing Deadly Global Heating, Fossil fuels cause 1 in 5 Adult deaths each year
( Sustainability Times) – Researchers at Harvard University in the United States, working with colleagues at the University of Birmingham, the University of Leicester and […]
Afghanistan pullout: Nato betrays its own values if interpreters and other local staff are left at risk
By Sara de Jong | – The announcement of the US and Nato military withdrawal from Afghanistan later this year has elicited many responses, not […]
Systemic Racism won’t End with One Trial, But Biden-Harris can enlist Government in addressing Economic Inequality at its Root
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – African-Americans face aggressive policing in part because, on average, they lack resources. Household wealth allows a family to donate to […]
George Floyd’s legacy: Could Derek Chauvin guilty verdicts spell the end of police immunity?
By Kent Roach | – The police killing of George Floyd begs for effective remedies that respond both to past harms while also preventing future […]
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