Chinese firm Carbonology claims that - from air, water, and renewable energy - it can synthesize fuel for sale at competitive prices. www.scmp.com/economy/chin...

The Peace & Justice Project on Gaza: www.facebook.com/reel/1546616...

Israeli prosecution drops charges of rape against five soldiers who were filmed doing it. www.commondreams.org/news/idf-dro...

Finally some justice for the people whom US contractors tortured at the notorious Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq. www.commondreams.org/news/abu-ghr...

Australia subsidizes fossil fuel use by >$30,000 per minute. www.theguardian.com/environment/... For the whole world, this subsidy flow is $1.33 million per minute (IMF study). What good this financial flow could do!!

Monitoring political donations affecting the coming midterm elections in the US. politicalintegrity.us/p/following-...

Reprisal bombing in Lebanon dropsitenews.com/p/lebanon-he... and chemical warfare in Tehran billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-dark-and...

Iran's Kurds would do well to read up on the fate of Syria's Kurds as summarized in BBC reporting six weeks ago. What happens when their usefulness to the US expires? www.bbc.com/news/article...

Friday night, @tpogge.bsky.social, @jonasjaegermeyr.bsky.social, and moderator Max Gruenig joined us for Global Shocks and the Future of Food System Resilience, a conversation that connected analytical, scientific, and policy perspectives on shared global challenges! PC: Matthew Gilbertson

The pattern continues with a double tap strike on Niloofar Square (1 March), detailed below, followed by a similar double tap strike on Ferdowsi Square (2 March), about 7 km away - both in heavily populated areas of Tehran. These attacks often kill reporters.

1/3 of Iran's dead are underage girls killed at their schools. 8 medical facilities were also hit. 10 innocent mistakes? Or an effort to show that Israel isn't alone in practicing Gaza-style warfare? If the latter, expect dead reporters.

These are the 21 finalist videos produced by school students across the US. Serious issues, well presented in ca. 6 minutes. I enjoyed my brief appearance in one of them. studentcam.us.launchpad6.com/fanfavorite

They were against regime change war. But how else do you stop people talking about Epstein? zeteo.com/p/team-trump...

New York Times reporting. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...

How Jad Jadallah bled to death at age 14. www.bbc.com/news/article...

How do global disruptions reveal vulnerability in food systems? Global Shocks & the Future of Food System Resilience will evaluate the repercussions impacting market instability & supply-chain stress with @tpogge.bsky.social, @jonasjaegermeyr.bsky.social & Max Gruenig. www.1014.nyc/events/food-...

Major breakthrough against sleeping sickness, a historically neglected disease largely confined to the world's poorest people. dndi.org/press-releas...

The debate about the US using AI for automated killing and mass surveillance. www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...

Reconstruction of Israel's killing of the 15 aid workers. www.dropsitenews.com/p/israeli-so...

Mercury is highly toxic to children: harming the developing brain & nervous system; causing severe neurodevelopmental damage: lower IQ, reduced memory, attention deficit disorders; can cause tremors, headaches, motor dysfunction. www.ft.com/content/d1f3... @RobertKennedyJr

420 days. Pediatrician Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza, is still held under inhumane conditions in Ofer Prison without charge. Without evidence that he was a combatant, he is imprisoned under Israel's Unlawful Combatants Law for 6-month periods.

China burns about 30% more coal than the rest of the world combined: nearly 5 billion tonnes. Ma Jun is a leading voice for bringing this down fast: burning coal no longer makes sense economically. www.carbonbrief.org/ma-jun-no-bu...

The Gini coefficient of global capital income is 94% - half of it goes to just 0.75% of the world's population. Data from 2020. stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/publications...

It's being reported by the editor of @migrantinsider.bsky.social. x.com/PabloReports...

As the US promotes fossil fuel burning at home and abroad, the outlook darkens for climate-change-induced famine crises around the world, esp. in Africa, where 170 million could be exposed each year by the end of the century. theconversation.com/climate-chan...

Global warming has been accelerating from 0.19 to 0.25 degrees Celsius per decade. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

From Inside Climate News. The impact of Trump's policies on greenhouse gas emissions.

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Yanis Varoufakis visits Yale ... by video link. www.youtube.com/channel/UCwT...

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The environmental regulations Trump is scrapping have reduced cardiovascular deaths from PM2.5 pollution from 42,000 in 2001 to 23,500 in 2020. We should strengthen these regulations and reduce racial disparities in their effects. ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

Despite annual economic growth of ca. 5%, CO2 emissions in China are down over the last two years - slightly. They now stand at 8.6 tonnes per person versus 14 tonnes for the US. Details from Carbon brief. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...

US midterm elections are coming up in November, including 35 senate seats, all seats in the House of Representatives, & many offices in the states. Elections in the US are privately funded, often by rich firms & individuals seeking legislative favors. This is how it looks:

After China, India is the world's second-largest coal consumer, burning 1.26 billion metric tons annually. This is expected to more than double by 2050 to a peak of 2.62 billion metric tons per year. We must do much better! www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Al Jazeera investigation reveals how US-supplied thermal and thermobaric munitions burning at 3,500C have left no trace of nearly 3,000 Palestinians. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

Transparency International's new Corruption Perception Index is out. The US is in 29th place, below most developed countries. Its score is 64, continuing its decline from a 2015 high of 76 (0-100 scale). www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2025/...

Officials of the UN and the International Criminal Court sanctioned like terrorists. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Donald Trump is suing the IRS, the US tax authority operating under his authority, for $10 billion (equivalent to $75 from each US household). Some NGOs and former officials weigh in with an amicus brief. www.commoncause.org/wp-content/u...

The last words of a journalist dying three days ago at age 56. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Gladys Mae West. An amazing life. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A federal judge ruled that Energy Secretary Chris Wright violated the law when he handpicked researchers to work in secret to produce a government report on global warming. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/c...

6-8 million died in 30 years of war in the Dem.Rep. of Congo, with foreign powers supporting various groups to gain access to abundant natural resources. Dramatic failure of UN Peacekeeping. Some people don't matter at all to the "international community." www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

"China is leading the charge to nuclear Armageddon" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... This headline provides cover for US aggression around the world. The text states China is catching up: 600 nuclear warheads versus 8000 for the US + Russia. The US abandoned INF & Open Skies Treaties.

50 years ago, the US Supreme Court decided that political campaign contributions are protected under the First Amendment (free speech). This finding was a central target in John Rawls's important essay "The Basic Liberties and their Priority." He failed to turn the tide. Can we?