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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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Bernie Sanders
Why the Russian Petro-state is actually terrified of a Bernie Sanders Presidency:  The Green New Deal

Why the Russian Petro-state is actually terrified of a Bernie Sanders Presidency: The Green New Deal

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has been accused by Western intelligence agencies of seeking to interfere in the 2020 US elections […]

Juan Cole

Inscriptions
The Prophet Muhammad’s Wives and Muslim Women in Early Arabian Rock Inscriptions

The Prophet Muhammad’s Wives and Muslim Women in Early Arabian Rock Inscriptions

Ahmad Bin Ghanim al-Ida’ published a photograph of an inscription he found south of al-Ula (near ancient Hijr) in Saudi Arabia. It was picked up […]

Juan Cole

Health Care
The Lie of Health Care ‘Choice’

The Lie of Health Care ‘Choice’

( Otherwords) – In our corporate-run health system, consumer “choices” are shaped entirely by profit-seeking monopolists. By Jim Hightower | February 19, 2020 Lyndon Johnson […]

Jim Hightower

Afghanistan
Can the US-Taliban Truce Hold, Bringing Peace to Afghanistan after 40 Years of War?

Can the US-Taliban Truce Hold, Bringing Peace to Afghanistan after 40 Years of War?

By Elizabeth B. Hessami | – If a seven-day truce between the United States and the Taliban holds until Feb. 28, 2020, Afghanistan’s decades-long conflict […]

The Conversation

Bernie Sanders
Russia wants Trump reelected, and may be Making a Bet that Bernie Sanders can't Defeat Him (They're Wrong)

Russia wants Trump reelected, and may be Making a Bet that Bernie Sanders can’t Defeat Him (They’re Wrong)

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Julia Arciga at The Daily Beast writes that the Bernie Sanders campaign is convinced that notorious far right wing internet […]

Juan Cole

Bashar al-Assad
With a Million Fresh Refugees and a 9-Year Civil War, Can Impoverished Syrians Survive?

With a Million Fresh Refugees and a 9-Year Civil War, Can Impoverished Syrians Survive?

( Middle East Monitor ) – A devastating civil war and international sanctions have destroyed Syria’s economy, leaving it with a GDP that is a […]

Stasa Salacanin

Donald Trump
Trump’s New Spy Chief Used to Work for a Foreign Politician the U.S. Accused of Corruption

Trump’s New Spy Chief Used to Work for a Foreign Politician the U.S. Accused of Corruption

By Isaac Arnsdorf | – (ProPublica) – Richard Grenell did not disclose payments for advocacy work on behalf of a Moldovan politician whom the U.S. […]

ProPublica

Elizabeth Warren
Nondisclosure and secrecy laws protect Bloomberg – not the women who sued him

Nondisclosure and secrecy laws protect Bloomberg – not the women who sued him

By Elizabeth C. Tippett | – Billionaire and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg received a lot of flak at the Feb. 19 Democratic […]

The Conversation

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White Terrorism targeting Innocent Muslims in Germany is not termed "Terrorism"

White Terrorism targeting Innocent Muslims in Germany is not termed “Terrorism”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Thursday, a racist extremist went to two shisha bars in Hanau, Germany, randomly shooting the people there. Since smoking […]

Juan Cole

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