Dana Nuccitelli – The Guardian The best efforts to undermine the established climate science behind the Endangerment Finding are pathetically bad As we well know, climate myths are like zombies that never seem to die. It’s only a matter of time before they rise from the dead…
Jonathan Freedland* – The Guardian The rush to lash Britain’s fortunes to the US president was always humiliating. Now, after Donald Trump Jr’s Russian revelations, it looks even worse There are few more perilous lines of work than being an ally of Donald Trump. Vouch for him…
By Matt McGrath Environment correspondent, BBC Growing competition for land and natural resources saw a record number of environmental activists killed in 2016, says Global Witness. The green group’s report details at least 200 murders across 24 countries, up significantly from…
By Dr. Hanif Hassan Al Qassim* GENEVA, Switzerland, Jul 11 2017 (IPS) – The world population has witnessed a remarkable growth during the recent decades. In 1965, it stood at 3.3 billion people.
By Philip Rucker and Ashley Parker – The Washington Post The White House has been thrust into chaos after days of ever-worsening revelations about a meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a lawyer characterized as representing the Russian government, as the president fumes against…
By Jedediah Purdy* – The Nation A new book argues that the Constitution’s framers believed that vast concentrations of wealth were the enemy of democracy—so what happened? “A constitution is not intended to embody a particular economic theory,” wrote Supreme Court Justice Oliver…
Hunter* – lobelog.com Since the Soviet Union dissolved in December 1991, articles have appeared in the West arguing that, sooner or later, Iran’s ethnic and linguistic diversity will lead it to go the way of the USSR and dissolve into several states. Moreover, subscribers to…
David Bromwich* – London Review of Books ‘Putin Butts in to Claim There Were No Secrets, and Says He’ll Prove It’ – so ran the main headline in the New York Times on 18 May. The subject was Donald Trump’s supposed revelation of foreign intelligence assets when he met with…
By Dr Felicity Daly* NEW YORK, Jul 10 2017 (IPS) – While there has been progress in researching the health and well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) people and responding to certain emerging health threats in high-income countries – elsewhere in…
by Jim Lobe* – Lobelog.com Iran hawks suddenly have a new mantra: the Islamic Republic is the Soviet Union in the late 1980s, and the Trump administration should work to hasten the regime’s impending collapse. It’s not clear why this comparison has surfaced so abruptly.
