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What Can We Do for the 250 Million and Counting Displaced by the Environmental Crisis?

Conor here: While the following piece highlights a major growing problem, I’m not sure expanding the Refugee Convention to cover those displaced by environment factors

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Book Review: A Portrait of the Arctic World in Flux

Yves here. I attended a full day of presentations at the Explorers’ Club presenting findings of on-the-ground research from the 2007-2008 International Polar Year. The

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Critics Say Trump ‘Joke Healthcare Plan’ Nothing But a ‘Con’ of the American People

Yves here. We wrote yesterday about the gimmick of Trump’s pretense that he will cap interest on credit cards at 10% for only a year.

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Climate Engineering Would Alter the Oceans, Reshaping Marine Life – Our New Study Examines Each Method’s Risks

Yves here. It is depressing but climate engineering, aka geo-engineering, is inevitable. Our putative betters are not just not doing remotely enough to try to

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Venezuelan Oil and the Limits of U.S. Refining Capacity

Yves here. Many commentators have described the sorry state of Venezuela’s oil industry and taken a stab estimating what it would take to turn that

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Somaliand, Fraud, Frey, Walz and Trump

Minnesota on ICE: With the killing of Renee Good, Minneapolis has become the frontline of POTUS Trump’s incitement and the reasons why go back decades

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Justice Department Subpoenas the Fed, Threatens Powell with Criminal Indictment. Powell Comes out Swinging. Stock Futures Tank

Yves here. Trump’s latest power play may prove to be another backfire. Astonishingly, the Trump Administration is pursuing criminal charges against Fed chair Jerome Powell

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Schumer, Jeffries Refuse to Join Democrats’ Growing Calls to Slash ICE Spending

Conor here: I’m not sure why anyone would expect anything else. The Democrats are just as responsible for the masked agents terrorizing American streets as

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Thrift Store. Clinic. Roller Rink. New Orleans Center Becomes ‘Radical’ Lifeline Amid Homelessness, Drug Crises.

Yves here. This article takes a celebratory tone about a community collective that serves the destitute and desperate. While members of the New Orleans acting

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The Next Frontier of Climate Accountability: Making Big Food Pay Its Ecological Bill

Yves here. As Trump’s shredding of the international order and domestic law dominates headlines, our climate and environmental crises keep relentlessly rolling forward. The article