The world’s largest oil producer made more money than Apple and Alphabet combined last year, but the company sees litigation and clean tech as threats
Archives for April 2019
Trump called Libya’s Hiftar, Backed Warlord’s Press to Conquer whole Country
President contradicted his secretary of defense
Medieval Crusaders in Levant Married, Recruited Locals, DNA shows
In the pitt, three were Europeans, four were Near Easterners, and the two had European ancestry but with less West European markers.
Going Green has to be Systemic & Legislated: “Personal Responsibility” is a Corporate Dodge
If environmental solutions aren’t systemic, living green will always mean going against the grain — and usually failing.
How Colonialists Led the Way to our Environmental Crisis of Over-Exploitation
Our understanding of colonialism is often limited to simple ideas about what we think colonialism looked like in the past
The Seychelles Plot: Mueller on the UAE Role in Russian Influence-Peddling with Trump and Kushner
The Mueller report sheds further light on the infamous Seychelles meeting in January, 2017, which appears to have aimed at establishing a back channel for the Trump administration to the circle of Russian President Vladimir Putin, brokered by Mohammed Bin Zayed of the United Arab Emirates. That is, this story is not about pre-election collusion […]
How Women are leading the Sudanese Revolution
In 2017, 24 women were arrested for wearing trousers
Why Good Friday was Dangerous for Jews in the Middle Ages and how that Changed
By Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski | – As Christians observe Good Friday they will remember, with devotion and prayer, the death of Jesus on the Cross. It is a day of solemnity in which Christians give thanks for their salvation made possible by the suffering of Jesus. They prepare for rejoicing on Easter Sunday, when the resurrection […]
De-Funding the Great American School System for the 1%
(Tomdispatch.com) – Three weeks ago, I sat in a cramped conference room in the large public high school where I teach in Beaverton, Oregon. I was listening to the principal deliver a scripted PowerPoint presentation on the $35 million budget deficit our district faces in the upcoming school year. Teachers and staff members slumped in […]
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