I’m playing around with a climate-change superhero story. I’ll post panels when I can get to it. I’m using ChatGPT Consistent Character. It is an experiment. Those who are interested, read along! The story is “Crude Bane.”
Archives for November 2024
“I am your Retribution:” A Psychoanalyst’s Insight into the Male Rage fueled by Inequality that Propelled Trump to Victory
Los Angeles (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – In our post-election blues, many pundits have started a post-mortem exploration of what went wrong with the Democrats’ optimistic outlook of winning the election, by even the thinnest margins. Explanations of Trump’s and Republican’s sweeping victory range from the ravages of inflation on the working class to […]
North Gaza: Israel has blocked or delayed 85% of Humanitarian Aid Requests, says UN
( Middle East Monitor ) – The United Nations reported that 85 per cent of its requests to coordinate aid convoys and humanitarian access to northern Gaza were either blocked or delayed by Israeli authorities in the past month. According to UN spokesperson, Stephane Dujarric, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) […]
Creating a Genuine Hell on Earth
( Tomdispatch.com ) – Honestly, what would George Orwell have written about this planet of ours, four decades after that ominous year 1984 passed from his fiction into history? And yes, in case you think that, as in his novel 1984, published in 1949, a year before his death and just as the Cold War […]
As COP 29 convenes, Human-Caused Climate Change Menaces the Middle East Across Borders
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The European Centre for Development Policy Management has issued a new report on the threats of human-caused climate change to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, concentrating on cross-border dangers that affect more than one country. Heat and drought would rank high on this list. The Middle East […]
Saudi Crown Prince condemns Israel attacks on Palestinians as ‘Genocide’
( Middle East Monitor ) – Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince and de facto ruler condemned what he called the “genocide” committed by Israel against Palestinians during a speech at a summit of leaders of Muslim and Arab countries in Riyadh on Monday, Reuters reports. “The Kingdom renews its condemnation and categorical rejection of the genocide […]
How the Taliban are seeking to Reshape Afghanistan’s Schools to push their Ideology
By Enayat Nasir, University at Albany, State University of New York | – (The Conversation) – The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in 2021 was a blow for education across the country – but especially for girls and women. Since then, the Taliban’s leaders have outlawed education for girls after sixth grade, expanded religious seminaries known […]
What Rough Beast? President Biden’s Gaza Policy Leaves the Middle East in Flames
This is my summation of President Joe Biden’s Middle East policies for Tomdispatch.com. Check out Tom Engelhardt’s searing introduction. And note his recommendation for my new book, Gaza Yet Stands.. ( Tomdispatch.com ) – President Joe Biden has now joined the ranks of Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush as a president whose Middle East […]
Oliver Stone talking about War in San Diego, a military Hub, is a perfect Fit
( The San Diego Union-Tribune) – To mark this year’s Veterans Day, the fifth anniversary of the foundation of Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft in Washington, D.C., and the 50th anniversary of the end of Vietnam War, the Center for War and Society at San Diego State University will be hosting a completely booked event aboard […]
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