2019

Australia Climate Crisis: Out-of-Control Mega-Fire raging across 740K Acres Smothers Sydney in Smoke

“We cannot stop these fires; they will just keep burning.”

The End of Ice: Dealing with Climate Crisis PTSD

(Tomdispatch.com) – Recently, I was in Homer, Alaska, to talk about my book The End of Ice. Seconds after I had thanked those who brought me to the small University of Alaska campus there, overwhelmed with some mix of sadness, love, and grief about my adopted state — and the planet generally — I wept. […]

Featured

Was Pensacola Shooter part of a terrorist Cell inside Saudi Officer Corps?

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The information now emerging from AP and other sources about Saudi Air Force pilot 2nd Lt. Mohammed Saeed Alshamran is extremely disturbing inasmuch as it point to the possible existence of al-Qaeda cells inside the Saudi military. Eric Schmitt, Frances Robles and Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs at the NYT reported that Alshamran […]

Plutocracy

Billionaires Can buy our Presidential Election at $100/ vote and Still Make Money!

OtherWords

( Otherwords.org ) – America’s wealthiest billionaires buy a national election at $100 a vote — and still make money. Gracie Mansion, the official residence of New York’s mayors since 1942, hosted billionaire Michael Bloomberg for three terms. The first of these terms began after Bloomberg, then the Republican candidate for mayor, spent an incredible […]

Iraq

The Iraqi Street Revolution of 2019 is still Challenging the American-Installed Order

Mustafa Habib

Mustafa Habib | – (Niqash.org) – Neither of the two opposing groups seem to want to give any quarter and despite impactful events and legislative manoeuvres, nobody is any closer to common ground. 6.12.2019 | Baghdad Politics A man in Baghdad’s informal “museum of martyrs”, a memorial to the young demonstrators who have been killed. […]

Germany

Green Democracy: This small German town took back the power – and went fully renewable

The Conversation

By Bertie Russell | – The case for ambitious and transformative environmental policy is being made with increasing fervour and a series of “Green New Deals” – a reference to Roosevelt’s economic reform programme in the 1930s – have been proposed over the past 12 months in the US, Europe, and the UK. Such policies […]

Featured

Green Steel Arrives for 1st Time in Mo.- How to get Low-Carbon Electric Cars and Buildings

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Nucor is building the first wind-powered electric micro-mill for steel production in Sedalia, Mo., writes Jeffrey Tomich at E&E News. The plant will use electric arc furnaces to produce steel instead of coal-fired furnaces, which are still used in nearly a third of US steel mills. Steel production world-wide accounts […]

Human Rights

Saudi Arabia’s Strategy to ‘Sportswash’ Abuses

Human Rights Watch

By Minky Worden | Director of Global Initiatives | – (

Climate Crisis

Your Global Carbon Dioxide Output will hit Record ~37 bn. Tons and it is Very Bad News

The Conversation

By Pep Canadell, Corinne Le Quéré, Glen Peters, Pierre Friedlingstein, Robbie Andrew< , Rob Jackson and Vanessa Haverd | - Global emissions for 2019 are predicted to hit 36.8 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO₂), setting yet another all-time record. This disturbing result means emissions have grown by 62% since international climate negotiations began in […]

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