Thursday, April 25, 2024

Rick Perry, climate denier and Dakota Access Pipeline owner board member, named energy secretary

Governor Perry has serious conflicts of interest that should disqualify him from the job.

Climate change forced over 1 million Africans from their homes in 2015

Disasters triggered by rapid-onset natural hazards affected 33 African countries last year.

Sorry, Donald. Taxes in the United States are actually very low.

Only Korea, Chile, and Mexico pay less.

Syria’s Aleppo falling: Moscow is a player in the region again

Russia’s success in shaping the outcome of the Syrian struggle has made Moscow a player in the region again for the first time since the fall of the old Soviet Union.

Cops of the Pacific?

The U.S. Military’s role in Asia in the Age of Trump.

‘Mr. Unpredictability’ fields an utterly predictable, regressive cabinet

What ‘Populist’ Cabinet Swarms with Plutocrats, CEOs, Militarists and Misfits?

Trump’s biggest test so far

If President-Elect Trump declines to take advantage of this “blatant” opportunity to change course in a constructive direction on U.S. foreign relations, then what realistic expectation can there be that he ever will do so?
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Inside Exxon’s great climate cover-up: From early climate change researcher to epic climate denier

Exxon knew that fossil fuels cause global warming as early as the 1970s but hid that information from the public.

Obama “actively” pondering end of dormant Muslim surveillance scheme, ahead of Trump

“The program was fundamentally flawed in its false assumption that people of a particular religion or nationality pose a greater national security risk and should be subject to racial profiling.”