By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – The Red Cross and the Russian Federation are both demanding a temporary cease-fire in the aerial bombardment of Yemen by a Saudi-led coalition, to allow delivery of needed humanitarian goods. Two weeks of bombing have left some 500 Yemenis dead and 1700 more wounded. Dozens of the killed […]
Month
Category
- Africa (233)
- Animals (1)
- Asia (1,215)
- Australasia (8)
- Australia (24)
- Authoritarianism (382)
- Canada (5)
- Cats (1)
- Celtic Religion (1)
- Culture (509)
- Dehydration (1)
- Democracy (319)
- Dissent (416)
- Ecology (1)
- Economy (1,011)
- Agriculture (3)
- Banking (67)
- Carbon Footprint (6)
- Corporations (48)
- Cryptocurrency (2)
- Debt (21)
- Democratic Socialism (20)
- Demographic Decline (1)
- Development (26)
- Employment (118)
- Food Insecurity (21)
- Homelessness (15)
- Industry (4)
- Inequality (416)
- Inflation (4)
- infrastructure (10)
- Investment (92)
- Market Crash (10)
- Middle Class (61)
- Monopolies (8)
- Neoliberalism (197)
- Plutocracy (607)
- Poverty (201)
- Regulation (2)
- Sanctions (4)
- Taxes (36)
- Technology (3)
- Trade (113)
- Weapons sales (6)
- Education (121)
- Elderly (3)
- Electricity Cost (2)
- Energy (1,688)
- Batteries (47)
- Coal (137)
- Fossil Fuels (317)
- Fracking (50)
- Geothermal (7)
- Green ammonia (5)
- Green Energy (407)
- Green Hydrogen (8)
- Heat Pumps (5)
- Hydroelectric (13)
- Natural Gas (106)
- Nuclear Energy (156)
- Petroleum (296)
- Power Grid (12)
- Pumped Hydro (6)
- Solar Energy (394)
- Tar Sands (13)
- Wave Energy (9)
- wind energy (328)
- Environment (2,572)
- Climate Change (1,527)
- Acidification of Oceans (54)
- Agriculture (24)
- Biodiversity (12)
- Climate Refugees (2)
- CO2 (108)
- Dehydration (5)
- Denialism (145)
- Desalinization (4)
- Desertification (158)
- Divestment (2)
- Dust Storms (6)
- Environmental Investment (1)
- Extreme Weather (293)
- Flooding (131)
- Food Supply (1)
- Forests (17)
- Green New Deal (39)
- Greenwashing (3)
- Mass Extinction (60)
- Methane (20)
- Net Carbon Zerio (8)
- Nitrous Oxide (2)
- Rainforests (19)
- Rivers (11)
- Sea Level (332)
- Soil Carbon Release (14)
- Super Storms (249)
- wildfires (229)
- Wood Buildings (1)
- Climate Crisis (1,224)
- Drought (284)
- Ecology (9)
- Environmentalism (391)
- Green Transportation (249)
- Ice Melt (130)
- Invasive Species (2)
- Islands (1)
- Oceans (98)
- Oil Spills (7)
- Pollution (226)
- Water (92)
- wildlife (19)
- Climate Change (1,527)
- Europe (1,324)
- Featured (3,818)
- fiction (5)
- Food (13)
- G20 (1)
- Guns (9)
- Health (653)
- History (339)
- Human Rights (1,365)
- Apartheid (255)
- censorship (274)
- Death Penalty (30)
- Disappeared (3)
- Displaced and Refugees (549)
- Food Insecurity (5)
- Gay rights (28)
- Genocide (17)
- Human Rights Watch (90)
- Migrants (4)
- Slavery and Trafficking (16)
- Torture (96)
- Trans Rights (3)
- Transgender Rights (4)
- Unlawful Imprisonment (99)
- Unlwful Killing (74)
- War Crimes (352)
- War Rape (7)
- Immigration (20)
- International (786)
- Islamophobia (373)
- Juan Cole (270)
- Latin America (97)
- Latinos (4)
- leisure (21)
- media (466)
- Middle East (9,158)
- Arab World (5,128)
- Iran (1,267)
- Israel (860)
- Israel/ Palestine (2,969)
- Israel/Palestine (8)
- Kurds (289)
- Turkey (573)
- Turkiye (99)
- military (123)
- Modernism (3)
- nationalism (115)
- NATO (36)
- Natural Disasters (13)
- Neocolonialism (1)
- nuclear weapons (102)
- Patriarchy (10)
- Peace (132)
- Persian mythology (1)
- Pete Buttigieg (1)
- Planetary Exploration (1)
- Popular Culture (24)
- Poverty (12)
- privacy (21)
- racism (461)
- Rape (8)
- religion (1,450)
- Rights (139)
- robots (3)
- Romance (1)
- science (145)
- Secular (West) (9)
- Secularism (30)
- Sexual Assault (2)
- South Pacific (2)
- Spirituality (22)
- Statelessness (15)
- Stranded Assets (1)
- Surveillance (278)
- Terrorism (1,086)
- Tolerance (6)
- Uncategorized (8,075)
- United Nations (130)
- Urbanization (4)
- US Foreign Policy (1,248)
- US politics (5,191)
- Anti-War Movement (12)
- Campaign Finance (31)
- Censors (21)
- Central Intelligence Agency (62)
- Charity (1)
- Civil Rights (96)
- Congress (76)
- Conspiracy Theories (21)
- Constitution (394)
- Courts (11)
- crime (12)
- Democratic Party (925)
- Democratic Socialists of America (22)
- Domestic Terrorism (20)
- Drone Warfare (27)
- Espionage (123)
- Ethnicities (377)
- Far Right (381)
- FBI (47)
- Foreign Policy (204)
- Gay Rights (17)
- Guns (94)
- Immigration (234)
- Israel Lobbies (121)
- Marijuana (4)
- Militarization (271)
- National Security State (471)
- Native Americans (40)
- Nuclear arsenal (7)
- penitentiaries (6)
- Pentagon (554)
- Police (43)
- prison reform (8)
- Private Prisons (2)
- Progressive Politics (12)
- Puerto Rico (30)
- Religious Right (15)
- Reproductive Choice (66)
- Republican Party (2,904)
- Supreme Court (123)
- Voter suppression (35)
- Whistleblowers (5)
- Xenophobia (9)
- Veterans (35)
- Voting Rights (16)
- War (487)
- White Supremacists (223)
- wikileaks (8)
- women (548)
- workers (230)
- Writing (5)
- Youth (207)
Spain
Another Domino Falls: Spanish Parliament votes to Recognize Palestine
Euronews: “Spanish MPs have urged their government to recognise the Palestinian state. The a non-binding resolution presented by the socialists won the backing of all the political groups of the lower house, and would only ask for recognition when the Palestinians and Israel negotiate a solution to their long-running conflict. “The Spanish Parliament unanimously believe […]
European Wind Power: Denmark, Portugal, and Spain Leading the World
By J. Matthew Roney Denmark produced one third of its electricity from the wind in 2013. In no other country has wind’s share of annual electricity generation yet topped 30 percent. But the Danes are not stopping there—they are eyeing a goal of…
© 2024 All Rights Reserved