By Juan Cole | — The 2016 presidential election will be very different from the 2014 congressional midterms just held. In the off years, turnout is low (this time it was less than 36 percent) and the people who come out to vote are disproportionately older, well off, and of northern European heritage. That is […]
Month
Category
- Africa (254)
- Asia (1,261)
- Australasia (36)
- Authoritarianism (393)
- Canada (9)
- Culture (568)
- Economy (1,074)
- Agriculture (3)
- Banking (67)
- Boycotts (1)
- Carbon Footprint (6)
- Corporations (55)
- Cryptocurrency (2)
- Debt (21)
- Degrowth (1)
- Democratic Socialism (20)
- Demographic Decline (1)
- Development (26)
- Downward Mobility (1)
- Employment (118)
- Food Insecurity (21)
- Homelessness (16)
- Industry (5)
- Inequality (428)
- Inflation (5)
- infrastructure (10)
- Insurance (1)
- Investment (93)
- Market Crash (12)
- Middle Class (61)
- Monopolies (8)
- Neoliberalism (204)
- Plutocracy (634)
- Poverty (209)
- Poverty (16)
- Regulation (3)
- Retirement (1)
- Sanctions (5)
- Tariffs (4)
- Taxes (38)
- Technology (3)
- Trade (119)
- Weapons sales (8)
- Education (192)
- Energy (1,765)
- Agrovoltaics (1)
- Batteries (53)
- Coal (140)
- Electricity Cost (2)
- Fossil Fuels (330)
- Fracking (50)
- Geothermal (7)
- Green ammonia (5)
- Green Energy (425)
- Green Hydrogen (8)
- Heat Pumps (6)
- Hydroelectric (16)
- Hydroelectric (2)
- Mining (1)
- Natural Gas (107)
- Nuclear Energy (160)
- Petroleum (303)
- Power Grid (12)
- Pumped Hydro (6)
- Solar Energy (427)
- Tar Sands (13)
- Wave Energy (10)
- wind energy (351)
- Environment (2,731)
- Climate Change (1,670)
- Acidification of Oceans (54)
- Agriculture (26)
- Biodiversity (15)
- Climate Refugees (4)
- CO2 (129)
- Dehydration (5)
- Denialism (149)
- Desalinization (4)
- Desertification (161)
- Divestment (2)
- Dust Storms (6)
- Environmental Investment (1)
- Extreme Heat (399)
- Extreme Weather (299)
- Flooding (138)
- Food Supply (3)
- Forests (18)
- Green New Deal (41)
- Green Recycling (2)
- Greenwashing (3)
- Mass Extinction (63)
- Methane (20)
- Net Carbon Zerio (8)
- Nitrous Oxide (2)
- Rainforests (19)
- Rivers (12)
- Sea Level (339)
- Soil Carbon Release (14)
- Super Storms (265)
- wildfires (241)
- Wood Buildings (1)
- Climate Crisis (1,362)
- Drought (297)
- Ecology (12)
- Ecology (2)
- Environmentalism (393)
- Green Transportation (257)
- Ice Melt (139)
- Invasive Species (2)
- Islands (2)
- Oceans (104)
- Oil Spills (8)
- Pollution (234)
- Water (97)
- wildlife (23)
- Climate Change (1,670)
- Europe (1,390)
- Featured (4,303)
- Haiti (1)
- Health (711)
- History (368)
- Human Rights (1,642)
- Apartheid (263)
- censorship (326)
- Death Penalty (30)
- Disappeared (4)
- Displaced and Refugees (581)
- Food Insecurity (30)
- Gay rights (29)
- Genocide (67)
- Human Rights Watch (91)
- Indigenous Rights (1)
- Migrants (4)
- privacy (21)
- Rights (91)
- Slavery and Trafficking (16)
- Starvation (4)
- Torture (102)
- Trans Rights (4)
- Transgender Rights (5)
- Unlawful Imprisonment (111)
- Unlwful Killing (82)
- War Crimes (424)
- War Rape (9)
- International Politics and Economy (2,133)
- Arms Sales (73)
- BRICS (3)
- Corruption (268)
- Crime (132)
- Democracy (337)
- Dissent (453)
- Domestic Terrorism (15)
- Drones (113)
- G20 (1)
- Guns (9)
- Hacking (8)
- Immigration (5)
- Immigration (22)
- Islamophobia (383)
- Migrants (2)
- military (125)
- nationalism (118)
- NATO (38)
- Neocolonialism (1)
- Peace (144)
- Policing (2)
- Politics (309)
- Politics&Culture (21)
- Propaganda (13)
- Race (1)
- Smuggling (1)
- Juan Cole (270)
- Latin America (104)
- media (487)
- Middle East (10,124)
- Arab World (5,326)
- Iran (1,385)
- Israel (975)
- Israel/ Palestine (3,715)
- Israel/Palestine (9)
- Kurds (294)
- Red Sea (1)
- Turkey (603)
- Turkiye (130)
- Patriarchy (10)
- racism (475)
- religion (1,526)
- robots (3)
- Romance (1)
- science (176)
- Secular (West) (9)
- Secularism (30)
- Spirituality (22)
- Statelessness (15)
- Stranded Assets (1)
- Surveillance (282)
- Terrorism (1,096)
- Tolerance (6)
- Uncategorized (8,086)
- United Nations (179)
- Urbanization (4)
- US Foreign Policy (1,397)
- US politics (5,534)
- Anti-War Movement (13)
- Campaign Finance (31)
- Censors (22)
- Central Intelligence Agency (63)
- Charity (1)
- Civil Rights (96)
- Congress (82)
- Conspiracy Theories (24)
- Constitution (415)
- Courts (15)
- crime (12)
- Democratic Party (976)
- Democratic Socialists of America (22)
- Domestic Terrorism (20)
- Drone Warfare (27)
- Espionage (124)
- Ethnicities (394)
- Far Right (399)
- FBI (48)
- Federal Government (1)
- Foreign Policy (204)
- Gay Rights (17)
- Guns (97)
- Immigration (256)
- Israel Lobbies (130)
- Marijuana (4)
- Militarization (274)
- National Security State (477)
- Native Americans (41)
- Nuclear arsenal (7)
- penitentiaries (6)
- Pentagon (578)
- Police (43)
- prison reform (10)
- Private Prisons (3)
- Progressive Politics (13)
- Puerto Rico (30)
- Religious Right (15)
- Reproductive Choice (69)
- Republican Party (3,123)
- Supreme Court (133)
- Voter suppression (36)
- Whistleblowers (7)
- Xenophobia (9)
- Veterans (35)
- Voting Rights (16)
- War (625)
- White Supremacists (238)
- wikileaks (8)
- women (569)
- workers (234)
- Writing (5)
- Youth (218)
US politics
Our new Climate-Change Denialist Congress and Looming Planetary Disaster
By Michael T. Klare (Tomdispatch.com) Pop the champagne corks in Washington! It’s party time for Big Energy. In the wake of the midterm elections, Republican energy hawks are ascendant, having taken the Senate and House by storm. They are preparing to put pressure on a president already presiding over a largely drill-baby-drill administration to take […]
American Public’s Rewards for voting GOP control of Congress (Political Cartoon)
Paul Jamiol | — via Jamiol’s World
Child Homelessness rising in US — Red States wonder why they’re the Worst
ABC 15, AZ | — “Arizona ranks as one of the worst states for homeless children.” ABC 15 Arizona: “Increase in homeless children in the US”
Gen Dempsey: US Considering Ground Troops in Iraq
VOA | — “America’s top military leader says he is considering deploying a limited number of U.S soldiers to fight with Iraqi troops against Islamic State militants. General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, made the remarks Thursday during testimony before the U.S. Congress. VOA correspondent Meredith Buel has details from […]
The Real Jesus was Bill O’Reilly’s Worst Nightmare – Reza Aslan
Cenk Uygur (The Young Turks) “The Jesus of history was the exact opposite of everything Fox News host Bill O’Reilly thinks, according to religious scholar Reza Aslan. The professor made the remarks while speaking at the Los Angeles World Affairs Council in February. Video of the event was uploaded on Tuesday. During the discussion about […]
Stealth Drone Proliferation: Iranians Reverse engineer captured US Spy Drone
Press TV: | “Iran has released a video showing the test flight of an Iranian-made version of the captured US RQ-170 spy drone. The stealth drone was designed and made in less than three years and will be ready for surveillance, combat and other related missions in the next few months. The RQ-170 Sentinel stealth […]
Top 5 Disasters If GOP Senate derails Iran talks
By Juan Cole | The Republican Party is already conniving at ways to derail the US-Iran negotiations over Tehran’s civilian nuclear enrichment program. When they take over the senate in January, the GOP senators will be in a good position to deep-six the talks and deny President Obama a diplomatic breakthrough. Iran does not have […]
Rehab for Empire Addiction: Uncle Sam on the Couch
By Tom Engelhardt (Tomdispatch.com) [What follows is a transcript of a therapy session between the American Empire and a psychiatrist whose name we at TomDispatch have agreed not to disclose. Normally, even in an age in which privacy means ever less to anyone, we wouldn’t consider publishing such a private encounter, but the probative news value of the exchange is so […]
© 2025 All Rights Reserved