By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump in the course of a speech on infrastructure in Ohio, yesterday, observed that the US was near to completely defeating the ISIL “caliphate” and that the US would be withdrawing from Syria very soon. CBS News: “Trump says U.S. to pull out of Syria “very […]
Can’t get Fooled Again: Trump Appointees make him look like Bush 2.0
Via Otherwords.org By Peter Certo | (Otherwords.org) | – – The president once distanced himself from the Bush legacy. Now he’s brought back the architects of its darkest moments. Political reporters have a saying: There’s always a tweet. That is, for nearly every political moment or presidential decree, there’s an uncannily on-point comment buried somewhere […]
Jesus wasn’t white: he was a brown-skinned, Middle Eastern Jew: & why that matters
By Robyn J. Whitaker | (The Conversation) | – – I grew up in a Christian home, where a photo of Jesus hung on my bedroom wall. I still have it. It is schmaltzy and rather tacky in that 1970s kind of way, but as a little girl I loved it. In this picture, Jesus […]
Ultimate Hypocrisy: Saudi Crown Prince touts Religious Tolerance in NYC
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s charm offensive in New York allegedly involved meeting Oprah Winfrey, which may be the only canny thing I’ve ever heard of him doing. He also had some religious leaders over to his condominium in NYC to stress the importance of […]
China met Carbon Intensity Goals 3 Years Early, but it Isn’t Nearly Enough
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – I am not a fundamentalist in any other area of life. But I am a carbon dioxide fundamentalist. Well, you can add methane and some other gases. The point is that CO2 emissions is the only issue that matters in speaking of climate change. It is […]
Could China oil Exchange & Green Energy pull the plug on the Dollar?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Kate Duguid at Reuters reports the alarm at UBS that China’s new oil futures exchange will hurt the standing of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. That development in turn would start the reverse snowball down the hill, with the dollar falling against other currencies, […]
Apocalyptic Numbers: The Saudi-Trump War on Yemen
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Three years ago this month, the then 29-year-old Minister of Defense of Saudi Arabia (now its crown prince) launched a ruinous war on Yemen. Yemen had been in Saudi Arabia’s back pocket in the 1990s and 2000s, and was a major recipient of Saudi aid, which […]
Netherlands to Build 1st Wholly unsubsidized Offshore Wind Farms
By Sam Morgan | EURACTIV.com The Dutch government has begun to follow through on its renewable energy pledges by awarding Swedish firm Vattenfall two contracts for what will be the world’s first wind farms to be built entirely without public money. The Dutch government has announced that its call for tender for zero-subsidy offshore wind […]
Palestine RIP
By Hossam Shaker | (Middle East Monitor) | – – They do not want to recognise the truth. The project of an independent Palestinian state has ended forever, and any talk about a “Palestinian state” today remains a dead letter that does not go along with its meaning. This is what the Americans, Europeans, Israelis […]
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