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In Deep South where GOP Rejected Obamacare, tens of 1000s die Unnecessarily every Year
(By Juan Cole) The Center for Disease Control house found that 900,000 people a year die of five leading causes every year in the US, […]
43% of Denmark’s Power from Renewables: Aiming for 70% by 2020
(By Juan Cole) Denmark is now getting 43% of its power from renewable energy (mainly wind and biomass). It is thus on track to meet […]
Fossil Fuel Subsidies Cost some $2 Trillion Annually, According To IMF
Originally published on RenewEconomy.By Sophie Vorrath Science informs us about the environmental cost of our global fossil fuel habit – the IPCC recently reported that CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion and industrial processes contributed…
The Cost of Repression: Turkey on May Day
(By Emma Sinclair-Webb @esinclairwebb ) With a reported 39,000 police officers and 50 water cannon vehicles, plentiful supplies of teargas, and a complete shutdown of […]
It’s Not about Hamas: Decrying Palestinian Unity
(By Gregory Harms) Aside from the occasional cross-border violence between Gaza and Israel, Hamas, which governs the coastal strip, has received little attention in the […]
This Land is their Land, it isn’t Your Land: Growing inequality in a Declining Empire
(By Peter van Buren via Tomdispatch.com) As America’s new economy starts to look more like the old economy of the Great Depression, the divide between […]
Top 10 Attacks on US Embassies in Republican Administrations that Lindsey Graham doesn’t Care about
(By Juan Cole) The Republicans in Congress keep beating the dead horse of Benghazi. Now they have sprung a briefing memo for Susan Rice, based […]
Rick Jacobs Threatens to Pull URJ Out of Presidents Conference After J Street Fiasco
Reform Movement leader Rabbi Rick Jacobs has signaled that the Union of Reform Judaism could consider dropping out of the Conference of Presidents in response […]
Why Oklahoma’s Botched Execution is an Argument for ending Death Penalty
Yet more evidence that the death penalty is cruel and inhumane arrived today at 8:00PM from the state of Oklahoma. Charles Warner, convicted of raping and murdering an 11-month-old girl, found his execution stayed today after the attempted execution…
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