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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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A Coup against Trump?  Or Trump's Coup against the Rule of Law?

A Coup against Trump? Or Trump’s Coup against the Rule of Law?

(Foreign Policy in Focus) – Donald Trump says that impeachment is actually a coup. It’s one more example of his attack on the rule of […]

John Feffer

Climate Crisis
Now that Australian Wildfires are choking its Cities with Smoke, Can we Finally talk Climate Emergency?

Now that Australian Wildfires are choking its Cities with Smoke, Can we Finally talk Climate Emergency?

By Blanche Verlie | – I moved to Sydney less than five weeks ago and the city has been shrouded in smoke haze on and […]

The Conversation

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The Disunited Kingdom

The Disunited Kingdom

The General Election in the United Kingdom on Thursday 12 December produced a major earthquake in British politics. Although opinion polls had shown either a […]

Farhang Jahanpour

Democracy
From Tory Landslide to Trump non-Impeachment: Can Filthy Rich Liars sink Democracy in Britain and the U.S.?

From Tory Landslide to Trump non-Impeachment: Can Filthy Rich Liars sink Democracy in Britain and the U.S.?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The danger to democracy posed by our new information system plus our new levels of wealth concentration cannot be overestimated. […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Afghanistan War and 'War on terror' rage on because the West won’t learn from 20 yrs.  failure

Afghanistan War and ‘War on terror’ rage on because the West won’t learn from 20 yrs. failure

By Paul Rogers | – Eighteen years ago the head of the UK’s military warned against relying on military solutions alone. But governments still aren’t […]

Open Democracy

Houthi
World's Worst War: Can South Yemen's Warring Factions Make Peace amid Saudi-Emirates Rivalry?

World’s Worst War: Can South Yemen’s Warring Factions Make Peace amid Saudi-Emirates Rivalry?

By Stasa Salacanin | – At the beginning of November, warring parties from Yemen’s south reached a power-sharing deal which aimed not only to defuse […]

Middle East Monitor

Donald Trump
On Impeaching Trump: An Open Letter to a Working-Class Friend

On Impeaching Trump: An Open Letter to a Working-Class Friend

Robby reflects the views of many older white workers who are critical of the system and blame Democrats and liberals for its breakdown. I first […]

Reese Erlich

Climate Change
Top 5 Differences between Chill Trump and "Angry" Greta Thunberg

Top 5 Differences between Chill Trump and “Angry” Greta Thunberg

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump bullied environmentalist Greta Thunberg over her Time magazine cover on Thursday. In a tweet he called the award “ridiculous” […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Patronizing Jews and Persecuting Palestinians: The Trump Executive Order

Patronizing Jews and Persecuting Palestinians: The Trump Executive Order

Oakland, Ca. (Informed Comment) – President Donald Trump’s executive order declaring Judaism to be a nationality is both a gross act of anti-Semitism, and an […]

H. Scott Prosterman

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