JUAN COLE Originally published on 10/17/2021 in Informed Comment Reprinted here with the permission of the author Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – American journalists like to personalize stories and create horse races empty of real content. That is why most Americans don’t know what is in the Democratic Build Back Better Bill backed by…
Next two Zoom webinars in the Yale Forum calendar: September 20, 2021: A BURNING TESTAMENT TO CLIMATE COLLAPSE — Lucy Walker, Film Director, “Bring Your Own Brigade” (2021) “Bring Your Own Brigade” (2021) – Following the aftermath of the 2018 Camp Fire, the deadliest fire in California’s history, British film maker Lucy Walker explores…
Editor’s Note: My wife (also named “Jane”) and I live in Grass Valley, about 130 miles south of the town of Greenville, which Jane Braxton Little writes about in the following harrowing article. Grass Valley, with a population of over 12,000, compared to Greenville’s 800 or so, shares its peril from the effects of…
BY MICHAEL KLARE In recent months, Washington has had a lot to say about China’s ever-expanding air, naval, and missile power. But when Pentagon officials address the topic, they generally speak less about that country’s current capabilities, which remain vastly inferior to those of the U.S., than the world they foresee in the 2030s and…
Nick Bowlin, High Country News Beneath the almond and citrus fields of the San Joaquin Valley lies an enormous system of aquifers that feeds some of the world’s most productive farmland. Hundreds of miles north and east, along the Nevada border, is the Surprise Valley, a remote, high-desert region undergirded by cone-shaped hollows of…