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How Ten Middle East Conflicts Are Converging Into One Big War – TheNewYorker

How Ten Middle East Conflicts Are Converging Into One Big War

The U.S. is enmeshed in wars among disparate players in Israel, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen.

By Robin Wright

January 17, 2024

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On Friday, a day after the U.S.-led attacks on dozens of Houthi military sites in Yemen, President Biden […]

January 21st, 2024 | Category: Issues | Leave a comment

When Ecuador Placed a Windfall Tax on Foreign Oil Operations, French and U.S. Companies Filed Claims—and Were Awarded More Than $800 Million

Source: When Ecuador Placed a Windfall Tax on Foreign Oil Operations, French and U.S. Companies Filed Claims—and Were Awarded More Than $800 Million

January 20th, 2024 | Category: Issues | Leave a comment

Israel’s Subtle Threats at the International Court of Justice – The New Republic

Lawyers for Israel defended the country’s bombardment of Gaza with a polite, legal form of blackmail. By James Robins Jan 20, 2024 James Robins is a critic and historian. His work has appeared in The New Republic, Vulture, and the TLS, and he writes the newsletter The Dreadnought. He lives in London.

In their often shambolic and occasionally hysterical […]

January 20th, 2024 | Category: Issues | Leave a comment

The Many Forms of Fossil Fuel Propaganda

January 19th, 2024 | Category: Issues | Leave a comment

What the Housing Shortage Is Doing to American Environmentalism-TheAtlantic

January 19th, 2024 | Category: Issues | Leave a comment

The One Climate Policy All 2024 Candidates Support Is Actually Terrible – TheNewRepublic

Whether they know it or not, all of these politicians are calling for the government to prop up what is a particularly byzantine and wasteful form of … solar energy. You can’t grow corn without photosynthesis, which converts energy from sunlight into plant tissue. But to liberate this embedded sun power, ethanol-bound corn must […]

January 19th, 2024 | Category: Issues | Leave a comment

How cutting back on beef helps the planet » Yale Climate Connections

Source: How cutting back on beef helps the planet » Yale Climate Connections

January 19th, 2024 | Category: Issues | Leave a comment

Indonesia food estate threatens peatlands with dire Climate costs- TheWashingtonPost

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By transforming 2,000 to 4,000 square miles of what environmental groups say is predominantly peatland into fields of rice, corn and cassava, the government projects that it will achieve self-sufficiency in food. Laws protecting forests have been amended to allow for the ongoing project. At the U.N. Climate Change Conference in November, Indonesian […]

January 19th, 2024 | Category: Issues | Leave a comment

Cop28 deal will fail unless rich countries quit fossil fuels says climate negotiator – Fossil fuels – The Guardian

January 19th, 2024 | Category: Issues | Leave a comment

Geopolitics—Not Just Summits—Will Shape the Transition to Clean Energy | Foreign Affairs

Source: Geopolitics—Not Just Summits—Will Shape the Transition to Clean Energy | Foreign Affairs

January 18th, 2024 | Category: Issues | Leave a comment
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