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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Tens of Thousands of Iraqis mass in Baghdad to Demand Expulsion of US Troops, Hang Trump in Effigy
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Tens of thousands of Iraqis massed in the Jadriya district of Baghdad on Friday to demand that U.S. troops leave […]
Auschwitz 75 years on: preserving survivors’ voices and listening to those of their children
By Sara Jones | – In December 2019, four people were shot dead at a kosher market in New Jersey, a horrific knife attack was […]
Palestine and the Oppression of the Map
( Al-Shabaka) – The practice of mapping in Palestine-Israel has long been an exercise in power, imperialism, and dispossession. From the British Mandate to the […]
Chief Justice Roberts is Forced to Preside over an Impeachment that his Ruinous “Citizens United” Ruling Helped Foster
(Inequality.org) – In the decade since this disastrous Supreme Court ruling, just 11 wealthy people have made 20 percent of super PAC donations. Ten years […]
Read it and Weep, Moscow Mitch: 100 MW of Solar to be bought by Kentucky Coal-Country Utilities for Toyota
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The East Kentucky utilities Kentucky Utilities and Louisville Gas & Electric have applied for permission from state regulators to buy […]
American Apocalypse: The Rapture of a U.S. Foreign Policy Off the Rails
By Danny Sjursen | – (Tomdispatch.com) – In March 1906, on the heels of the U.S. Army’s massacre of some 1,000 men, women, and children […]
World Court Rules against Buddhist Burma on Ethnic Cleansing of Rohingya Muslims
International Court of Justice Unanimously Orders Measures to Prevent Genocide
Science Fiction Author William Gibson: Nostalgia for the Present and Future Fatigue
By Andre Spicer | – The future isn’t what it used to be, at least according to the Canadian science fiction novelist William Gibson. In […]
Back to 1924: Trump mulls adding Pure anti-African Racism to Visa ban, in Addition to anti-Muslim Hate
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Nicole Narea at Vox reports that Trump is considering adding some of Africa’s most important countries to his visa ban, […]