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China’s Power Sector Emissions fall 5.8% in Q1, as Renewables rapidly Replace Coal
China

China’s Power Sector Emissions fall 5.8% in Q1, as Renewables rapidly Replace Coal

Juan Cole

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 […]

Trump and Bukele: The Few Repressing the Many

Trump and Bukele: The Few Repressing the Many

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That Sucking Sound you hear is Trump Flushing America down the Toilet

That Sucking Sound you hear is Trump Flushing America down the Toilet

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Climate Crisis
Climate Emergency Overdrive: Our Age of Compound Disasters as 10% of Oregon is Evacuated, California Burns and Louisiana Sinks

Climate Emergency Overdrive: Our Age of Compound Disasters as 10% of Oregon is Evacuated, California Burns and Louisiana Sinks

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – It is astonishing to me that we still have 287 million gasoline vehicles on our roads and that 20 percent […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Covid Lies: Why Your life Hangs on the Deranged Whims of One Man

Covid Lies: Why Your life Hangs on the Deranged Whims of One Man

A Declaration of Independence from Donald Trump

Martin Powers

Donald Trump
It's a Hawk!  It's a Dove!  It's Donald Trump, playing both sides against the Middle

It’s a Hawk! It’s a Dove! It’s Donald Trump, playing both sides against the Middle

( 48hills.org) – President Donald Trump has convinced Republican isolationists and hawks that he supports their views. That’s a neat trick, since the two groups […]

Reese Erlich

Christianity
Why in the World would Evangelical Christians deny the Human-Caused Climate Emergency?

Why in the World would Evangelical Christians deny the Human-Caused Climate Emergency?

By Adrian Bardon | – U.S. Christians, especially evangelical Christians, identify as environmentalists at very low rates compared to the general population. According to a […]

The Conversation

censorship
Top 4 reasons Trump's Saving "ass" of Bin Salman over Khashoggi Murder is Shameful and just Wrong

Top 4 reasons Trump’s Saving “ass” of Bin Salman over Khashoggi Murder is Shameful and just Wrong

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Sonam Sheth and John Haltiwanger at Business Insider have seen Bob Woodward’s Rage, which will be published next Tuesday. They […]

Juan Cole

Far Right
19 years after 9/11, Americans continue to fear foreign extremists and underplay the dangers of domestic terrorism

19 years after 9/11, Americans continue to fear foreign extremists and underplay the dangers of domestic terrorism

By Jeff Gruenewald, Joshua D. Freilich, Steven Chermak, and William Parkin | – On a Tuesday morning in September 2001, the American experience with terrorism […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Has Israel's Plan to Annex the Palestinians been Cancelled or just Postponed?

Has Israel’s Plan to Annex the Palestinians been Cancelled or just Postponed?

By Adnan Abu Amer | – Middle East Monitor) – Ever since Israel’s plans to annex large parts of the occupied West Bank and Jordan […]

Middle East Monitor

Militarization
Generals to the End:  Patton and Westmoreland walk into a Bar . . .

Generals to the End: Patton and Westmoreland walk into a Bar . . .

( Tomdispatch.com ) – I’ve written a fair number of pieces for TomDispatch, but this one is a bit different — some might even say […]

Andrew J. Bacevich

Donald Trump
Aztec Politics: Trump sacrificed 200K by Downplaying Covid-19 to save the Stock Market from Panic

Aztec Politics: Trump sacrificed 200K by Downplaying Covid-19 to save the Stock Market from Panic

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Bob Woodward’s new book of interviews with Trump and figures in his administration records how Trump told the reporter in […]

Juan Cole

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