Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Lauri Myllyvirta writes at Carbon Brief that China’s CO2 emissions over-all fell by 1% in the past 12 months, and […]
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That Time when America was a Superpower before Trump surrendered to China
( Tomdispatch.com ) – After four years of Donald Trump’s fitful tenure, America is awakening from a long, troubled sleep to discover, like the fictional […]
President Biden, We can do this too: Europe generates more electricity with Renewables than Fossil Fuels for First Time
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A new report from Ember and Agora Energiewende finds that in 2020, the 27 countries of the European Union generated […]
Right Wing Laws to “protect religious freedom” Enable Fundamentalists to Discriminate
Charleston, W.Va. (Informed Comment) – Across America, right-wing politicians pass “religious freedom” laws that have a single purpose: to let narrow-minded believers discriminate against gays […]
Will the Pandemic help Shift the world from Oil to Green Energy?
By Elif Selin Calik | – ( Middle East Monitor) – It is crucial to an understanding of the global consequences of the coronavirus pandemic […]
Hating on Muslims in Western Media is based on the Big Lie
By Stuart Chambers | – Although anti-Muslim sentiments certainly existed long before 2001, the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the response to them intensified anti-Muslim […]
Failures of Democracy in America and the Arab Spring
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Today is ten years since Egyptian youth gathered in Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo demanding the resignation of Egypt’s brutal […]
Confronting Total Collapse in Israeli-Occupied Gaza: Division and COVID-19
By Ali Abdel-Wahab | – ( Al-Shabaka ) – Gaza has always been unique among the different parts of Palestine. Its current particularity stems from […]
Equal Opportunity Hate: The Angry White women of the Capitol Far Right
By Jakana Thomas | – The terror inflicted on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 laid bare America’s problem with violent extremism. The FBI and […]
How Bush’s Wars led to Trump’s Insurrection: From Occupying Iraq to Occupying the Capitol
By Andrea Mazzarino | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – “I got out of the Marines and within a few years, 15 of my buddies had killed […]