Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A Special Committee of the United Nations Office of the High Commission on Human Rights has issued a new report […]
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Top 6 Ways 2023 could be a Pivotal Year for Climate Action
By Wesley Morgan, Griffith University | – (The Conversation) – Many people think of the annual UN climate talks as talkfests which achieve only incremental […]
Climate Crisis: Oceans heating up as though we were Constantly Blowing up Atomic Bombs in them
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The UN’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has released talking points for its report on 2022, warning that the oceans are […]
Did Netflix Really fulfill its Pledge to Be Carbon Neutral by 2022?
By Christine Ro | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – Netflix styles itself as a climate action leader, but the world’s most popular video […]
A New Crop of Disruptor-Politicians is failing the Earth
( Foreign Policy in Focus) – House Republicans, Euroskeptics, Vladimir Putin, and Jair Bolsonaro are the agents of a new kind of political disorder that […]
Mad World: Global Flashpoints to watch in 2023 in the Era of ‘Polycrisis’
By Susan Harris Rimmer, Griffith University | – (The Conversation) – When 2022 began, there was trepidation about what might happen in at least ten […]
Past 8 Years have been Hottest on Record, probably Hottest since Time of Christ
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The past 8 years are the hottest on record. So concludes The UN’s World Meteorological Organization. In 2022, the average […]
Criticizing Israel: Letter to the President of Harvard University regarding Kenneth Roth
Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association of North America | Lawrence S. Bacow President, Harvard University president@harvard.edu Dear President Bacow: […]
Iran Executions: the Role of the ‘Revolutionary Courts’ in breaching Human Rights
By Simon Rice, University of Sydney | – (The Conversation) – The Iranian government has attempted to brutally suppress the widespread protests sparked by the […]
The Pentagon’s Hunger Games
( Tomdispatch.com ) – By any standard, the money the United States government pours into its military is simply overwhelming. Take the $858-billion defense spending […]
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