Juan Cole on Bill Gates, Hurricane Melissa and the pro-billionaire high-tech sector. By Juan Cole TomDispatch.com In late October, Hurricane Melissa (that should have been called “Godzilla”) battered western Jamaica with 185-mile-an-hour winds. It tossed the roofs of buildings about like
> Melissa was already a third more powerful than it would have been without climate breakdown. Heat up the Caribbean Sea even more, and the power of storm winds won’t increase on a gentle slope but exponentially. Scientists are already suggesting that we need a new Category 6 classification for such hurricanes, since our present 5 categories are inadequate, given their increasing power.
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In late October, Hurricane Melissa (that should have been called “Godzilla”) battered western Jamaica with 185-mile-an-hour winds. It tossed the roofs of buildings about like splintering javelins, demolished municipal buildings and hospitals, snapped telephone poles
When Zohran Mamdani campaigned in Arabic, He was Speaking an old American Language
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Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani made a campaign ad in quite passable colloquial Arabic for the some 180,000 Arab residents of New York, who live primarily along Steinway Street in Queens and in Brooklyn. Mamdani's wife, artist Rama Duwaji, is a Houstonian whose family hails from Syria. Some observers are suggesting that it is a defiant gesture in response to the openly Islamophobic and quite shameful comments of his rival Andrew Cuomo. Zohran Mamdani campaigns in Arabic Because so many Arabic speakers have immigrated to the United States since the end of the old Nazi-like immigration
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - Israel's militarily useless, entirely unprovoked and wholly illegal air war on Iran differs significantly from its previous wars in the region, which involved ground invasions with armor and infantry. Israel defeated Egypt in 1956 and again in 1967 with a combination of air force and armor and infantry. It suffered a reversal in 1973 when Egypt proved able to cross the Suez Canal and head toward a defenseless Israel, though a conquest of Israel was not the aim of then President Anwar El Sadat and so Israel was able to riposte and fight to a
Over the past 15 months, the international community has failed to prevent genocidal atrocities in Gaza. Dismantling the UN refugee agency would perfect the nightmare. New York (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) - Early in the year, State Department officials briefed Joel Rayburn from the Trump transition team there could be a humanitarian 'catastrophe' in Gaza when a new Israeli law barring contact with the UN refugee agency for Palestinians takes effect at the end of the month. The UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) is the primary aid agency operating in the Gaza Strip. After more than a year
( Middle East Monitor ) - The first official reference to Gaza becoming increasingly uninhabitable was made by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in 2012, when the population of the Gaza Strip was estimated at 1.8 million inhabitants. The intention of the report, “The Gaza Strip: The Economic Situation and the Prospects for Development,” was not merely to prophesise, but to warn that if the world continued to stand idle in the face of the ongoing blockade on Gaza, a humanitarian catastrophe was imminent. Yet, little was done, though the UN continued with its countdown, increasing
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - The collapse of the Baathist government of Syria in the north of the country, as the al-Qaeda affiliate HTS (Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham or the Levant Liberation Council) advanced into Aleppo and Hama, could reconfigure the Middle East. The rapidity of the advance and the Muslim fundamentalist leadership of the fighters reminds me of the fall of the government of Ashraf Ghani before the Taliban advance in August-September 2021. If those events embarrassed Joe Biden, these developments embarrassed Russian President Vladimir Putin, the main backer of Damascus. The distraction of Ukraine clearly weakened Russia in the
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