( Globalvoices.org) – This year marks the 100th year since the founding of the Republic of Turkey. May 14 of this year will also mark Turkey’s highly-anticipated general election. Pundits who have been watching the country’s political turmoil brought by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) describe the upcoming May vote as crucial — […]
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Archives for 2023
Exxon Scientists Accurately Forecast Climate Change back in the 1970s – What if it hadn’t been Covered up and We had Acted
By John Grant, Sheffield Hallam University | – Writers of speculative- and science-fiction often identify a key point in time and explore how a seemingly insignificant event might change the path of humanity. One of these moments came in the 1970s when oil giant Exxon chose to ignore its own commissioned research on the impact […]
The Real Failure of January 6th: How America’s Insurrectionists Crossed the Rubicon of History
( Tomdispatch.com ) – Americans tuning into the television news on January 8th eyed a disturbingly recognizable scene. In an “eerily familiar” moment of “déjà vu,” just two years and two days after the January 6th Capitol insurrection in Washington, D.C., a mob of thousands stormed government buildings in the capital city of another country […]
Netanyahu Proposes More Guns to Solve Israeli-Palestinian Violence as Tit-for-Tat Attacks Multiply
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Although violence between Israelis and Palestinians only rose to the level of being covered by cable television news on Saturday, ever since Binyamin Netanyahu returned as prime minister in the company of the fascist Religious Zionism and Jewish Power blocs in late December there has been a low-intensity civil war. […]
Classified into Paralysis
Nashville (Special to Informed Comment) – It looks like Donald Trump gets off the hook for his defiant mishandling of classified documents. If former vice presidents kept documents, how can you single out Trump for prosecution? True, Trump committed far more and more serious breaches, but now others share his sins. How many classified materials […]
Pain of Police Killings ripples outward to traumatize Black People and Communities across US
By Denise A. Herd, University of California, Berkeley | – (The Conversation) – As the video goes public of Black police officers in Memphis beating Tyre Nichols to death, it is a stark reminder of George Floyd’s murder by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020. That set up the largest protests in U.S. history and […]
Thomas Friedman shows that liberal Jews have no Reason left to defend Israel
By Nasim Ahmed ( Middle east Monitor ) – I watched the recent discussion between Thomas Friedman and Peter Beinart with great interest. Friedman, a New York Times columnist and arguably the journalist who has most shaped the US debate over Israel-Palestine in recent decades, was invited onto Beinart’s podcast to talk about Zionism, the […]
Gigawatts of Offshore Wind Power in Big Apple Pipeline: Dirty Fossil Power Plants in Queens, NY, to become Green Energy Hubs
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Rise Light & Power LLC announced on Tuesday that it will invest in an offshore wind facility so as to turn its Ravenswood Generating Station in Queens, New York City’s largest fossil fuel power plant, into a clean energy hub. The area around Ravenswood, mostly home to low-income minorities, is […]
Arresting Greta Thunberg: Germany’s Crackdown on anti-Coal Protests is not a Good Look
By Edgar Meza | – ( CleanEnergy Wire ) – The protests against the razing of the village of Lützerath in order to expand the brown coal mining operations of energy giant RWE are damaging Germany’s image and standing in international climate negotiations, Richard Klein, researcher at the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) told Table.Media. The […]
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