By Piers Forster, University of Leeds | – Greenhouse gas emissions are at an all-time high, with yearly emissions equivalent to 54 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide. Humanity has caused surface temperatures to warm by 1.14°C since the late 1800s – and this warming is increasing at an unprecedented rate of over 0.2°C per decade. […]
Archives for June 2023
Mohammed Altamimi, Age 2: The Latest Victim of Israeli Apartheid Toward Palestinians
Belfast (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Like any other toddler in the world, two and a half years old Palestinian toddler Mohammed Altamimi was with his father in the car at their home entrance in the Palestinian village of Nabi Saleh. All was normal until the Israeli army opened fire at their car. Both […]
Jada Pinkett Smith’s Black Cleopatra Stirred Controversy, but What about the Forgotten Queens of Ancient Nubia?
By Yasmin Moll, University of Michigan | – Jada Pinkett Smith’s new Netflix documentary series on Cleopatra aims to spotlight powerful African queens. “We don’t often get to see or hear stories about Black queens, and that was really important for me, as well as for my daughter, and just for my community to be […]
Americans in Pain: Confronting the Phantom Limbs of America’s Foreign Wars
( Tomdispatch.com ) – America’s War on Terror, launched in response to the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, has had a staggering impact on our world. The Costs of War Project at Brown University, which I helped found, paints as full a picture as possible of the toll […]
Anti-Trans Politicians Are Following the Nazi Playbook
By Mitchell Zimmerman ( Otherwords ) – The 1920s were both good and bad times for the Jews of Germany. They’d been granted the same legal rights as other Germans and were established in respected professions. They were mostly treated as worthy of dignity. But that changed as antisemites scapegoated Jews for all of Germany’s […]
With Two Damaging Trump Trials during the Campaign, did Joe Biden just become a Shoo-in in 2024?
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump’s two indictments will likely throw the 2024 election to Joe Biden. Assuming Biden remains in good health and there isn’t a dramatic foreign policy reversal or a prolonged economic crisis, he is now a shoo-in. He may be a shoo-in no matter what, since the alternative will be so […]
Hate Groups’ Political Influence Growing: Southern Poverty Law Center
By: Ashley Murray – J ( Minnesota Reformer) – WASHINGTON — More than 1,200 hate and anti-government extremist groups were active across the United States in 2022, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s latest report on the nationwide prevalence of extremists who target people of color, LGBTQ people, Jewish communities and other religious […]
Official Report: Palestinian-Israelis Pay higher Interest Rates on Loans in Israel than Jews
( Middle East Monitor ) – Arab citizens in Israel pay higher interest rates on bank loans than Jews, Israel’s Hebrew newspaper Maariv reported on Friday citing an official report. The report, which was conducted on banking in the Arab sector in Israel, found that there is less competition in offering services to Arabs compared […]
Using electric water Heaters to store renewable Energy could do the work of 2 million home Batteries – and save us Billions
By David Roche, University of Technology Sydney | – Australia’s energy transition is well under way. Some 3 million households have rooftop solar and sales of medium-sized electric cars are surging. But as we work towards fully electric households powered by renewable energy, have we overlooked a key enabling technology, the humble electric water heater? […]
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