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"Russian interference."Sputnik InternationalRT France Hires Former French Economic Intelligence Chief as New HostAlsoSputnik InternationalHow Dare You! Bernie Chastised by Twitter Users Over His Wife's Interview With "Russian TV"

Backgrounder. More complicated than meets the eye. As always, it about money and power.Asia TimesThe Afghanistan ‘peace deal’ riddle Pepe Escobar

Retired U.S. Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, who served as Secretary of State Colin Powell’s chief of staff from 2002 to 2005, says the escalation of tensions between the U.S. and Iran today is a continuation of two decades of U.S. policy disasters in the Middle East, starting with the 2003 run-up to war with Iraq under the Bush administration. “America exists today to make war. How else do we interpret 19 straight years of war and no end in sight? It’s part of who we are. It’s part of what...

Chinese state-owned power company, China Three Gorges Corporation, has announced it has started developing more than two dozen of new green energy projects, requiring the total investment of $8.2 billion. The construction of 25 new projects with a total installed capacity of 3.92 million kilowatts was started simultaneously in 14 provinces and regions, the Beijing-based company announced on Monday. The initiatives are expected to create 17,000 jobs for locals and help the nation's...

As part of my recent European speaking engagements, I went to Rome on February 5, 2020 to speak at the Italian Senate on Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) and the dysfunctional state of the European Union. The next day I had long discussions with one of my co-authors, Thomas Fazi, who I wrote – Reclaiming the State: A Progressive Vision of Sovereignty for a Post-Neoliberal World (Pluto Books, September 2017) with. We have been working on the sequel to that book for some time, and, in the...

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Damien Riehl and Noah Rubin generated and saved every possible melody to a hard drive, then turned it back around to the commons. ViceMusicians Algorithmically Generate Every Possible Melody, Release Them to Public Domain Samantha Cole

Over the next 20 years, scientists estimate about 70 to 90% of all coral reefs will disappear primarily as a result of warming ocean waters, ocean acidity, and pollution. Expand that out to 2100 and it’s “looking quite grim,” says Renee Setter, a marine scientist at the University of Hawaii in Manoa. By 2100 there will be nearly zero suitable coral habitats remaining, eliminating nearly all living coral reef habitats. Forbes  Nearly All Coral Reefs Will Disappear Over The Next 20 Years,...

The deniers like to point out where some scientists (not usually climatologists) and commentators made inaccurate predictions about climate change, but on the whole climatologists got it right.Climate change doubters have a favorite target: climate models. They claim that computer simulations conducted decades ago didn’t accurately predict current warming, so the public should be wary of the predictive power of newer models. Now, the most sweeping evaluation of these older models—some half...

Cutting through the BS surrounding Chinese government's response to the coronavirus.But the origin of the virus is yet unestablished. This is a limitation on prevention.East Asia ForumHas the internet helped China contain the coronavirus?Mu Li | Professor of International Public Health at the Sydney School of Public Health, The University of Sydney