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China’s Power Sector Emissions fall 5.8% in Q1, as Renewables rapidly Replace Coal
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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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Pakistan's 'Brotherly' Ties With Saudi Arabia Hit 'Rock Bottom'

Pakistan’s ‘Brotherly’ Ties With Saudi Arabia Hit ‘Rock Bottom’

By Frud Bezhan | – ( RFE/RL) – But the long-standing economic, political, and military ties between the South Asian state and the oil-rich Middle […]

Frud Bezhan

Donald Trump
How our TV News is letting Trump get away with Claiming the Pandemic is Behind Us when we have a 9/11 every 3 Days

How our TV News is letting Trump get away with Claiming the Pandemic is Behind Us when we have a 9/11 every 3 Days

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Republican National Convention wants the pandemic to be in the past. It isn’t. Cases are up almost 1 percent […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
"Unsurvivable Storm Surge":  Hurricane Laura Most Powerful to Hit Louisiana in Recorded History, driven by CO2 Emissions

“Unsurvivable Storm Surge”: Hurricane Laura Most Powerful to Hit Louisiana in Recorded History, driven by CO2 Emissions

[Hurricane “Laura” became nearly a category 5 with winds at 150 mph or more on Wednesday evening before landfall. A category 5 has winds of […]

The Watchers

Authoritarianism
Who is Murdering Iraq's anti-corruption Youth Protesters?

Who is Murdering Iraq’s anti-corruption Youth Protesters?

Human Rights Watch (Beirut) – Unidentified gunmen have since August 14, 2020, assassinated two protesters and wounded another four, all linked to a youth protest […]

Human Rights Watch

African-Americans
Presidents have a long history of condescension, indifference and outright racism towards Black Americans

Presidents have a long history of condescension, indifference and outright racism towards Black Americans

By Stephen A. Jones qnd Eric Freedman | – The fury over racial injustice that erupted in the wake of George Floyd’s killing has forced […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
Top 3 Humiliating Failures of Pompeo as Secretary of State

Top 3 Humiliating Failures of Pompeo as Secretary of State

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – When he was in the House of Representatives, Mike Pompeo bothered Hillary Clinton half to death over the deaths of […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israelis have demolished 650 Palestinian Homes in Jerusalem just this year, Wrong even without a Pandemic

Israelis have demolished 650 Palestinian Homes in Jerusalem just this year, Wrong even without a Pandemic

Middle East Monitor ) – Contrary to what the Palestine Liberation Organisation’s Secretary-General Saeb Erekat stated confidently a few months ago, Israel has not stopped […]

Ramona Wadi

Artificial Intelligence
Do Robot Generals dream of Deceased Humans?

Do Robot Generals dream of Deceased Humans?

( Tomdispatch.com ) – With Covid-19 incapacitating startling numbers of U.S. service members and modern weapons proving increasingly lethal, the American military is relying ever […]

Michael T. Klare

Desertification
Pandemic Karma: Destroying Forests to Raise certain Foods Put us Closer to Viruses

Pandemic Karma: Destroying Forests to Raise certain Foods Put us Closer to Viruses

By Terry Sunderland | – As the global population has doubled to 7.8 billion in about 50 years, industrial agriculture has increased the output from […]

The Conversation

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