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Trump won't stop Americans hitting the Paris climate targets. Here's how we do it

Michael Bloomberg* Forget the White House, a new coalition of cities, businesses and universities are taking a lead role in fighting climate change The global effort to confront climate change was hobbled for many years by the mistaken idea that only national governments and…

11 August 2017 · 4 min read

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Do You Trust Donald Trump’s Finger On The Nuclear Button?

By Mark Hertsgaard — The Nation

By Mark Hertsgaard – The Nation As tensions with North Korea escalate, Congress and the military must prevent a nuclear first strike. The United States is not a monarchy, but in times of nuclear crisis it sure feels like one.

10 Aug 2017 · 9 min read

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The Trump administration's solution to climate change: ban the term

Bill McKibben* The US Department of Agriculture has forbidden the use of the words ‘climate change’. This say-no-evil policy is doomed to fail In a bold new strategy unveiled on Monday in the Guardian, the US Department of Agriculture – guardians of the planet’s richest…

10 Aug 2017 · 3 min read

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Trump as “Consequence, Not Cause” of the Collapse in the Post Cold War Consensus

By Andrew J

Posted by Yves Smith – Naked Capitalism Yves here. Readers will likely concur with Bacevich’s analysis but find his proposals to be simplistic, starting with the fact that he calls them preliminary yet two of them require Constitutional amendments.

9 Aug 2017 · 17 min read

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You Cannot Trap the ‘Magic Rat’: Trump, Congress and Geopolitics

Burrowes* A wonderful thing about observing and analyzing the human mind is that there is a seemingly infinite variety of phenomena to observe and analyze. I sometimes wonder if it is even remotely possible to master this subject but, even if it is not, at least it provides an…

9 Aug 2017 · 10 min read

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Kushner must have no role in Middle East

By Mustapha Karkouti

By Mustapha Karkouti*, Special to Gulf News He has effectively disqualified himself from overseeing the peace process as he “adopted Israel’s position” in the negotiation between the two parties Being a son-in-law is not a qualification, even if you are the son-in-law of the…

8 Aug 2017 · 6 min read

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Trump could be out of office within a year – but the US’s problems would be just beginning

Paul Mason – The Guardian The ultra-right will have a tough choice between sticking with Trump or switching to a socially conservative, libertarian presidency headed by Mike Pence A brief list of the “known unknowns” suggests Donald Trump’s presidency will not survive 12 months…

8 Aug 2017 · 8 min read

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Many Politicians Lie. But Trump Has Elevated the Art of Fabrication.

By Sheryl Gay Stolberg — -The New York Times

By Sheryl Gay Stolberg –The New York Times WASHINGTON — Whit Ayres, a Republican political consultant here, likes to tell his clients that there are “three keys to credibility.” “One, never defend the indefensible,” he says. “Two, never deny the undeniable. And No. 3 is: Never…

7 Aug 2017 · 8 min read

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World Still Lagging on Indigenous Rights 10 Years After Historic Declaration

By Mariam Wallet Aboubakrine, Albert K. Barume and Victoria Tauli-Corpuz

By Mariam Wallet Aboubakrine, Albert K. Barume and Victoria Tauli-Corpuz * GENEVA / NEW YORK, Aug 7 2017 (IPS) – The world’s indigenous peoples still face huge challenges a decade after the adoption of an historic declaration on their rights, a group of United Nations experts…

7 Aug 2017 · 4 min read

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Gender Equality? It’s Still a Man’s World

By Anna Shen

By Anna Shen* SAN FRANCISCO, California, Aug 2017 (IPS) – Gender inequality is the greatest moral and social issue of our time — and the world’s most critical economic challenge. If half of the global population cannot fulfill their human potential, the world’s economic growth…

4 Aug 2017 · 5 min read