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We Deserve Medicare for All, But What We Get Is Medicare for Wall Street
By Les Leopold | – ( Commondreams.org ) – The United States health care system—more costly than any on earth—will become ever more so as […]
Renewables now Generate more of Britain’s Electricity than Fossil Fuels
By Will de Freitas, The Conversation | – (The Conversation) – At the start of 2016, in an article noting some exciting changes in British […]
Bin Laden’s Curse: Gaza, Iran and the Reemergence of ISIL
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The responsibility for the bombing in Kerman, Iran, on Wednesday that killed at least 84 people and wounded another 284, […]
Double Threat: Nukes and Climate Change in 2024
( Tomdispatch.com ) — Honestly, what strange creatures we are. Nothing stops us when it comes to destruction, does it? (And I’m not even thinking […]
Israel in discussions with Congo to resettle Palestinians from Gaza, Recalling Nazi Madagascar Plan for Jews
( Middle East Monitor ) – The Israeli government is increasingly adopting the “voluntary” resettlement of Palestinians from Gaza as official policy, with a high-ranking […]
How Long can Israel Defy the World?
Montréal (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Palestinians in Gaza are being decimated. Over 20 000 have been killed, mostly women and children. Three times […]
Renewables cover 52% of Germany’s Electricity Demand for First Time in 2023
By Sören Amelang | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – Germany has generated more than half of the electricity it used this year with […]
Israel’s highest Court protects its Power to curb Government Extremism
By Naomi Schalit, The Conversation | – In the midst of Israel’s fierce war against Hamas in Gaza, the country’s highest court on New Year’s […]
Can Masha Gessen get an Apology now that Israel’s Smotrich called Gaza a “Ghetto” that Should be Depopulated?
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The chief characteristic of the current Israeli government of PM Binyamin Netanyahu is the inclusion in it of elements that […]
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