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State of Climate: Earth Hottest on Record again, as CO2 still Climbs and Glaciers Wilt
Climate Crisis

State of Climate: Earth Hottest on Record again, as CO2 still Climbs and Glaciers Wilt

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The American Meteorological Society has issued its annual climate report, this one summarizing changes in 2024 now that all the […]

New data shows No Kings was One of the largest Days of Protest in US history

New data shows No Kings was One of the largest Days of Protest in US history

08/17/2025 By Waging Nonviolence

Iran’s Nature is under Threat – here’s how better environmental Stewardship can save it

Iran’s Nature is under Threat – here’s how better environmental Stewardship can save it

08/17/2025 By The Conversation

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End Warness, Not Wokeness: Ten Thoughts on Curbing the Worst Excesses of U.S. Militarism

End Warness, Not Wokeness: Ten Thoughts on Curbing the Worst Excesses of U.S. Militarism

( Tomdispatch.com ) – As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take America back (again!) to greatness, there’s been much talk of Elon Musk’s new DOGE, […]

William J. Astore

Climate Crisis
Yes, Human-Caused Climate Change Contributed to the Burning of Los Angeles

Yes, Human-Caused Climate Change Contributed to the Burning of Los Angeles

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Los Angeles wildfires destroyed over 1,000 buildings, forced thousands from their homes, and left at least five dead as […]

Juan Cole

Drones
European Union funding for Israeli AI, Tech, raises Fresh Concerns about Complicity in Genocide

European Union funding for Israeli AI, Tech, raises Fresh Concerns about Complicity in Genocide

By Melike Pala | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Israel’s use of artificial intelligence (AI) funded by European Union research programmes to target […]

Middle East Monitor

Syria
Syria: Challenges facing Ahmad al-Shara as he Strives for Legitimacy both Inside and Outside the Country

Syria: Challenges facing Ahmad al-Shara as he Strives for Legitimacy both Inside and Outside the Country

(The Conversation) – Rahaf Aldoughli, Lancaster University The fall of the Assad regime after more than 50 years and the rise of the militant group […]

The Conversation

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Ireland to Int’l Court of Justice: Gaza War is no Excuse for Israel Genociding Palestinian Civilians

Ireland to Int’l Court of Justice: Gaza War is no Excuse for Israel Genociding Palestinian Civilians

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Ireland has filed a declaration with the International Court of Justice of its intention to intervene in South Africa’s genocide […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Gaza and Lebanon Atrocities: The international legal System has Collapsed, and Journalism is Collapsing with it

Gaza and Lebanon Atrocities: The international legal System has Collapsed, and Journalism is Collapsing with it

By Kristin Skare Orgeret, Oslo Metropolitan University (The Conversation) – The past year has been the deadliest for journalists since the Committee to Protect Journalists […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
Finding Hope in the Negative Spaces of the Trump Era

Finding Hope in the Negative Spaces of the Trump Era

( Tomdispatch.com ) – The expression “punch-drunk,” Google informs me, means “stupefied by or as if by a series of heavy blows to the head.” […]

Rebecca Gordon

Climate Crisis
In a Time of Oligarchy, a New People’s (Women’s) March for a Green New Deal

In a Time of Oligarchy, a New People’s (Women’s) March for a Green New Deal

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Pick up any US liberal newspaper today and there are reams of columns speculating on the fate […]

H. Patricia Hynes

Israel/ Palestine
8th Baby freezes to Death in Gaza, as Israeli Forces fire on World Food Programme Workers, Flour Warehouse

8th Baby freezes to Death in Gaza, as Israeli Forces fire on World Food Programme Workers, Flour Warehouse

( Middle East Monitor ) – Gaza’s Ministry of Health today announced that 35-day-old Yousef Kalloub froze to death because of the lack of sufficient […]

Juan Cole

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