Vancouver (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Former Defense Department analyst Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers to the media in 1971, died […]
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Breaching 1.5°C / 2.7° F. Climate limit would jeopardise Security, says new German govt Strategy
By Julian Wettengel | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – Exceeding the 1.5°C / 2.7° F. temperature limit of the Paris Climate Agreement would […]
Xi Jinping backs Palestine entry into Shanghai Cooperation Organization, as Beijing offers to Mediate Israeli-Palestinian Peace
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas accomplished a great deal on his 4-day visit to Beijing, including a Chinese agreement to try […]
To Avert Climate Catastrophe, US and Europe must stop Competing and Start Cooperating
Originally published in European Alternatives. ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – From a foreign policy perspective, transatlantic relations appear to have reached new heights. […]
Oceans absorb 30% of our CO2 Emissions; Phytoplankton are Central to its Climate Impacts
By Tyler Rohr, University of Tasmania; Anthony Richardson, The University of Queensland; and Elizabeth Shadwick, CSIRO | – The ocean holds 60 times more carbon […]
9/11, Climate Change Style: How burning Fossil Fuels is making our own Planet Alien to Us
( Tomdispatch.com ) – As it turns out, it’s never too late. I mention that only because last week, at nearly 79, I managed to […]
Iran confirms it is Talking with the Biden Administration about Nuclear Enrichment, Prisoners and Regional Relations
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – It is coming out that the US and Iran have been talking privately in Oman about a range of bilateral […]
Governments at Bonn Climate Talks Should Press United Arab Emirates on Rights
Joe Stork Deputy Director, Middle East and North Africa Division (Human Rights Watch ) – Ahmed Mansoor, the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) best-known human rights […]
Restricting College Tenure will hurt State Economies, Many Warn
By: Stephen Elliott – Daniel Brinks, who chairs the government department at the University of Texas at Austin, doesn’t usually have a tough time recruiting […]
‘We are gambling with the future of our Planet for the sake of Hamburgers’: Peter Singer on Climate Change
By Peter Singer, Princeton University | – (The Conversation) – I wasn’t aware of climate change until the 1980s — hardly anyone was — and […]