Via ScheerPost — which is always essential reading, I was interviewed by the legendary journalist Robert Scheer. In a storied career, he covered the Vietnam War and southeast Asia, edited Ramparts, interviewed Jimmy Carter for Playboy and the president confessed to him that he sometimes had lust in his heart. Scheer has interviewed or met […]
Archives for February 2021
Taxes on the Rich: One-Sixth of What They Used to Be
By Bob Lord and Chuck Collins | – ( Inequality.org) – America hasn’t stopped taxing its wealthiest citizens entirely. But that’s where we’re headed. According to a new IPS briefing paper, the richest .01 percent of Americans, about 33,000 lucky souls today, now pay just one-sixth of what they used to pay in tax, when […]
How Miracle Workers made 60% of S. Australia’s Electricity Green in only 20 Years
By Michael McGreevy and Fran Baum | – Less than two decades ago, South Australia generated all its electricity from fossil fuels. Last year, renewables provided a whopping 60% of the state’s electricity supply. The remarkable progress came as national climate policy was gripped by paralysis – so how did it happen? Our research set […]
Biden’s Return to the Paris Agreement Is Just the Beginning
By Lorah Steichen | – (Originally in National Priorities Project) (Institute for Policy Studies ) – On his first day in office, President Joe Biden made good on his campaign promise to rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement on day one. On Feb. 19, the reentry formally went into effect. Amid a climate emergency that is […]
Biden’s Double Standards: Iranian Civilians under severe US Sanctions but not accused Saudi Murderer Bin Salman
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Biden administration on Friday declassified and released a CIA assessment that Saudi crown prince Mohammed Bin Salman bears responsibility for the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 3, 2018. CBC: “U.S. intelligence report blames Saudi crown prince for murder of […]
Gulf War: As Biden bombs Iraqis, 30 years on the consequences of Desert Storm are still with us
By Lorena De Vita and Amir Taha | – It was a short message to end a short war. On February 26 1991, Iraqi foreign minister Tariq Aziz put his signature to a letter addressed to the United Nations Security Council: I have the honour to notify you that the Iraqi Government reaffirms its agreement […]
By the End of the Year, Germany will have a Million Electric Cars on the Road out of 4.7 mn Total
By Sören Amelang | – Germany will probably reach its target of having one million fully electric or plug-in hybrid cars on the road this year, government advisors have said. The head of the country’s National Platform Future of Mobility (NPM), Henning Kagermann, told business daily Handelsblatt he was pleased “that it appears we will […]
Yemen: a war with no military solution … and perhaps no political solution either
( Al-Bab.com) – The Yemeni city of Marib lies 120 km to the east of the capital, Sana’a, with mountainous territory in between. It was from Marib, in the early stages of the six-year war, that pro-government forces hoped to launch an assault against the Houthi rebels who had seized Sana’a. Since then, though, the […]
Why the US needs to get out of Syria: Biden orders Bombing that kills 17 in Proxy dance with Iran
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Al-Quds al-`Arabi [Arab Jerusalem]’ reports that at least seventeen fighters were killed in U.S. air strikes on Thursday night on small bases on the Syrian border with Iraq. The bases south of Al-Bu-Kamal belong to the Brigades of the Party of God [Kataeb Hezbollah] and the Brigades of the Prince […]
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