Juan Cole: New Solar Installations Double to 24.5 Gigawatts in 2024 in India
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – India installed 24.5 new gigawatts of solar power in 2024, along with 3.4 gigawatts of new wind. That represented…
Glenn Greenwald: Tulsi’s Flip On Warrantless Surveillance
By Glenn Greenwald / System Update
Chris Hedges: Entering the Trump Era
By Chris Hedges / Chris Hedges Report
Jeffrey Sachs: A Comprehensive Deal for Peace in the Middle East
The sheer majority of people in the Middle East, and in the world, yearn for peace. Yet a violent extremist minority commits the region to endless war.
Lancet Study: Gaza Health Ministry Undercounted Death Toll By 41%
The study doesn't account for indirect deaths caused by the Israeli siege.
Trump Sentenced by NY Court After SCOTUS Denies Effort to Block Court Hearing
Justice Juan Merchan spared Trump of jail time or fines, but rather handed him a sentence of “unconditional discharge.”
Judge Orders CPS to Come Clean on Deleted Assange Docs
A judge in London has ruled that Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) must explain what happened to certain documents in the Julian Assange case that it claims no longer exist,…
How to Reclaim America’s ‘Democracy’ From the Big Finance Oligarchy
Sociologist Michael A. McCarthy’s latest book shows how ordinary people can take back control of financial capitalism and make it work for them.
China Is Not Our Enemy
“Something don't talk about enough, in my opinion, is how China managed to eradicate extreme poverty. And that's not just a minimum income level, it also means access to food,…
Mr President: No Vatican Visit, No Papal Patina of Probity
By Ray McGovern and Robert Scheer In this week’s episode of “Playing President,” Ray McGovern, 27-year CIA veteran and briefer of five presidents, continues to make sense of the world…
End Warness, Not Wokeness
Ten Thoughts on Curbing the Worst Excesses of U.S. Militarism
RAY McGOVERN: Biden Cancels Trip; Pope Off the Hook
The cancelation has made it easier for the pope to duck the moral imperative to condemn outright the enabling of genocide in Gaza by “practicing Catholic” Joe Biden.
California Just Banned Mandatory Anti-Union Meetings in Workplaces. Business Groups Have Sued to Stop the New Law.
Chamber of Commerce, Restaurant Association claim the law, which labor unions say is meant to prevent coercion, violates free speech.
Media Downplay Israeli Violations of Hezbollah Ceasefire
By Bryce Greene / Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting Israel and Hezbollah signed a ceasefire agreement at the end of November that required both sides to refrain from attacks on…
Robert Scheer’s Interview with Jimmy Carter
By Robert Scheer YES, AS YOU PROBABLY KNOW ALREADY FROM GORE Vidal’s foreword, I am the guy who Jimmy Carter talked to about lust in his heart. I bring it…