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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

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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 War on Gaza created Ideal Environment for Polio Virus, Limiting Clean Water and Sanitation

Israel’s War on Gaza created Ideal Environment for Polio Virus, Limiting Clean Water and Sanitation

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Digital Deception: Disinformation, Elections, and Islamophobia:  Juan Cole et al.

Digital Deception: Disinformation, Elections, and Islamophobia: Juan Cole et al.

Middle East Council on Global Affairs | Webinar on “Digital Deception: Disinformation, Elections, and Islamophobia,” September 2, 2024, featuring Juan Cole, Marc Owen Jones, Sohan […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Incursions into the West Bank risk Fuelling Palestinian Resistance rather than Quelling It

Israeli Incursions into the West Bank risk Fuelling Palestinian Resistance rather than Quelling It

By Leonie Fleischmann, City, University of London | – (The Conversation) – As the war in Gaza rages on, the situation in the West Bank […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
Trumptopia and Beyond: Is Reality the Biggest Fiction of All Today?

Trumptopia and Beyond: Is Reality the Biggest Fiction of All Today?

( Tomdispatch.com ) Yes, long ago, I dreamt of being a novelist. Two ancient manuscripts packed away in a distant corner of my closet attest […]

Tom Engelhardt

Dissent
Why Biden must cut Netanyahu off:  His Policies are Destroying Gaza, Killing Hostages, and Widening the War to the West Bank

Why Biden must cut Netanyahu off: His Policies are Destroying Gaza, Killing Hostages, and Widening the War to the West Bank

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – With the enormous weekend demonstrations in Israel, and Monday’s general strike called for by the Histadrut, the […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Children
Thousands of Palestinian Children in Gaza are the Principal Victims of Israel’s Genocide

Thousands of Palestinian Children in Gaza are the Principal Victims of Israel’s Genocide

( Middle East Monitor ) – The Israeli war on Gaza is a war on Palestinian children. This was as true on 7 October as […]

Ramzy Baroud

Health Care
Ceasefire Needed: Israel still Bombing areas where Health workers are vaccinating Children for Polio for Part of Each Day

Ceasefire Needed: Israel still Bombing areas where Health workers are vaccinating Children for Polio for Part of Each Day

By Sarah Schiffling, Hanken School of Economics and Liz Breen University of Bradford | – (The Conversation) – A large polio vaccination campaign started in […]

The Conversation

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Massive Demonstrations, National Strike in Israel as Crowds blame PM Netanyahu for deaths of Hostages

Massive Demonstrations, National Strike in Israel as Crowds blame PM Netanyahu for deaths of Hostages

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Basil Maghrebi at the Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that tens of thousands of Israelis participated on Sunday evening in […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Climate Change has deep historical Roots – Amitav Ghosh explores how Capitalism and Colonialism fit in

Climate Change has deep historical Roots – Amitav Ghosh explores how Capitalism and Colonialism fit in

By Julia Taylor, University of the Witwatersrand and Imraan Valodia, University of the Witwatersrand | – (The Conversation) – Amitav Ghosh is an internationally celebrated […]

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