politics

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Thu, 15/06/2023 - 04:50
Allow me to come clean: I worry every time Max Boot vents enthusiastically about a prospective military action. Whenever that Washington Post columnist professes optimism about some upcoming bloodletting, misfortune tends to follow. And as it happens, he’s positively bullish about the prospect of Ukraine handing Russia a decisive defeat in its upcoming, widely anticipated, sure-to-happen-any-day-now spring Continue reading »
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Thu, 15/06/2023 - 04:52
London/Beijing– China has called on the United States to shoulder its responsibilities and pay its arrears to the UNESCO after Washington’s plan to rejoin the United Nations’ cultural and scientific agency was announced on Monday. “We hope this time the US decision is made out of a sense of responsibility and aimed at supporting multilateralism Continue reading »
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Thu, 15/06/2023 - 04:52
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced Monday that parts per million of carbon dioxide in our planet’s atmosphere averaged 424 ppm in the month of May, reaching a level not seen for millions of years. In May 2022 it was only 421 ppm so this is a tremendous jump Continue reading »
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Thu, 15/06/2023 - 04:54
Mass surveillance and manipulation should not be allowed to become the new normal. The Robodebt controversy directly affected more than 470,000 people, some of whom reputedly took their lives as a result of the harassment they received to repay debts to the Australian Government that they never incurred. The policy, which was first implemented under Continue reading »