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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

05/16/2025 By Foreign Policy in Focus

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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Israel’s fear of prosecution strengthens Palestine narratives

Israel’s fear of prosecution strengthens Palestine narratives

By Ramona Wadi | – (Middle East Monitor ) – Israeli media has reported that the International Criminal Court (ICC) could issue secret arrest warrants […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
Why Gen Z is at the Vanguard of the Climate Movement

Why Gen Z is at the Vanguard of the Climate Movement

From the rise of organizations like Zero Hour to Greta Thunberg’s Fridays For Future, the youth climate movement is only just getting started.

Waging Nonviolence

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What Martin Luther King Jr. Would have thought of Israeli anti-Palestinian Apartheid

What Martin Luther King Jr. Would have thought of Israeli anti-Palestinian Apartheid

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., whose activism we honor today, took stands far beyond Selma and Montgomery, and called […]

Juan Cole

Australia
Some Technology is Too Dangerous: Iran's Accidental Ballistic Launch and Australia's Climate Inferno are Trying to Tell us Something

Some Technology is Too Dangerous: Iran’s Accidental Ballistic Launch and Australia’s Climate Inferno are Trying to Tell us Something

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – The first month of 2020 has been full of lessons—if we are willing to listen. With over […]

John Buell

Australia
Climate Catastrophe: With a Billion Animals Dead and the Koala in Danger, Will Australia's Ecology Ever be the Same?

Climate Catastrophe: With a Billion Animals Dead and the Koala in Danger, Will Australia’s Ecology Ever be the Same?

By Darren Evans | – The sheer scale and intensity of the Australian bushfire crisis have led to apocalyptic scenes making the front pages of […]

The Conversation

prison reform
Indelible Legacy: Or How This Became a Gitmo World

Indelible Legacy: Or How This Became a Gitmo World

Karen J. Greenberg and Joshua Dratel | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – In January 2002, the Guantánamo Bay Detention Facility in Cuba opened its gates […]

Tomdispatch

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Wind Power Surging Globally and In U.S. despite Trump's Opposition, Replacing Coal

Wind Power Surging Globally and In U.S. despite Trump’s Opposition, Replacing Coal

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Coal is the dirtiest fossil fuel, and humanity needs to ban it yesterday if we are to keep the earth […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
The U.S. and Iran are Having a Huge Food Fight in Iraq after Trump assassinated Soleimani

The U.S. and Iran are Having a Huge Food Fight in Iraq after Trump assassinated Soleimani

By Bamo Nouri | – When thousands of anti-government protesters returned to Iraq’s streets on January 10, they were expressing anger at the explosion of […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Israel:  Free Palestinian rights Activist Jonathan Pollak

Israel: Free Palestinian rights Activist Jonathan Pollak

( Middle East Monitor) – Back in my mid-twenties, I went off to Palestine to become a solidarity activist. I volunteered with the International Solidarity […]

Asa Winstanley

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