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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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How Cold War US Corporations Smeared Democratic Socialism

How Cold War US Corporations Smeared Democratic Socialism

By Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy | – Bernie Sanders has emerged as the Democratic front-runner in the race for the presidential nomination. Yet even some left-leaning pundits […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
How Democracy Ends:  Not With a Bang But With a Whimper

How Democracy Ends: Not With a Bang But With a Whimper

By Karen J. Greenberg | – (Tomdispatch.com) – In this fast-paced century, rife with technological innovation, we’ve grown accustomed to the impermanence of things. Whatever […]

Karen J. Greenberg

Donald Trump
Anti-Science and Opportunistic: Trump and Iran's Ayatollahs both Play down Coronavirus

Anti-Science and Opportunistic: Trump and Iran’s Ayatollahs both Play down Coronavirus

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Christine Romans at CNN wonders if Trump’s news conference on Wednesday evening on the Covid-19 coronavirus was his “Mission Accomplished” […]

Juan Cole

Banking
Bernie Sanders and the Poor Little Rich Boys:  Why Billionaire Financiers are Bullying the Democratic Party

Bernie Sanders and the Poor Little Rich Boys: Why Billionaire Financiers are Bullying the Democratic Party

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – Quiet concerns about a possible Sanders victory became a loud and agitated freakout after the Senator’s resounding […]

John Buell

Epidemics
Can Iran Afford its Syrian Intervention in face of Failing Economy, Coronavirus?

Can Iran Afford its Syrian Intervention in face of Failing Economy, Coronavirus?

By Tony Walker | – Iran’s emergence as a hot zone for the coronavirus further complicates that country’s relationships with its neighbours at a time […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
On Hanging from the Blades of an Israeli Bulldozer: Al-Naem is Every Palestinian

On Hanging from the Blades of an Israeli Bulldozer: Al-Naem is Every Palestinian

( Middle East Monitor ) – How is one to apply rational political analysis to what is inherently irrational? What kind of political theory must […]

Middle East Monitor

Bernie Sanders
Sanders calls out "reactionary racist Netanyahu" while Bloomberg charges Mideast with "age-old hatreds"

Sanders calls out “reactionary racist Netanyahu” while Bloomberg charges Mideast with “age-old hatreds”

At Tuesday night’s Democratic debate in South Carolina on CBS, Major Garrett, chief Washington correspondent for CBS News, asked Bernie Sanders a leading question. The […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Heartened by Trump's backing, Israel has ramped up Plans for ethnic cleansing of Palestinians

Heartened by Trump’s backing, Israel has ramped up Plans for ethnic cleansing of Palestinians

By Nabil Al-Sahli | – In line with the demographic goals of the Zionist occupation state, the recently announced Trump deal includes a clause to […]

Middle East Monitor

Afghanistan
Gone Shopping!  America's Forever Wars Lumber on Because Americans don't Know About Them

Gone Shopping! America’s Forever Wars Lumber on Because Americans don’t Know About Them

( Tomdispatch.com) – There is no significant anti-war movement in America because there’s no war to protest. Let me explain. In February 2003, millions of […]

William J. Astore

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