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Jan 17, 2025 | 
msn.com | Joseph Grosso
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
counterpunch.org | Joseph Grosso
As is now something of an annual ritual, last month’s COP29 conference in Baku, Azerbaijan ended on a rather shabby note. Actually, one can describe its beginning the same way. Ilham Aliyev, the dictator who rules Azerbaijan, a country where fossil fuels make up 90 percent of its export revenues, opened the conference calling fossil fuels ‘a gift of God.’ This was something of a regression.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Magilan Karthikeyan |Kandathil Sebastian |Joseph Grosso |Gary M. Feinman
Introduction:It is curious why The Hindu newspaper has chosen to revisit Prof. Nilakanta Sastri’s 1964 lecture at this time, especially when more recent studies have emerged in the field. Contemporary research in anthropological genetics has provided new insights, confirming that Homo sapiens originated in Africa. Studies by Prof. Dr R Pitchappan have further mapped migratory patterns, showing genetic evidence that links the Nadar, Ezhava, and Thiyya communities with the L1 haplogroup.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Brian Stewart |Joel Kotkin |Joseph Grosso |Jonathan Kay
In his masterpiece Al-Muqaddima, the 14th-century Arab historian Ibn Khaldun observed that, in a landscape of contending tribes, history is shaped by the use of force more than any other factor. Today, the Arabic-speaking Middle East is not a throng of some 300-million people united by a common ideology and shared interests; it is a diverse and dynamic region, seventy percent of which is Sunni Muslim with the remainder populated by dozens of minorities.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Joseph Grosso |Jonathan Kay |Razib Khan |Heather Mac Donald
The Apollo 17 mission in 1972 was the sixth and last time that humans set foot on the moon. Now, after a 52-year hiatus, NASA is planning a new generation of lunar missions. These will begin with Artemis II, for the fall of 2025, which will send four astronauts on a ten-day trip around the moon. Missions three to six will put astronauts on the surface and set up pieces of the Lunar Gateway space station. From there, the plan is for future missions to focus on setting up habitable settlements.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Kandathil Sebastian |Joseph Grosso |Pema Choden Bhutia |Andre Damon
According to a recent statement by India’s Ministry of External Affairs, 1.3 million Indian students are studying outside India. Their educational expenses abroad are estimated to be more than USD 6 billion. Many of the student migrants settle down in destination countries and continue to contribute to their economies. There are varying approaches to understanding student migration from the source and destination countries.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
damagemag.com | Joseph Grosso
It has become common knowledge that Homo sapiens are made of stardust. The carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, and all of the other things necessary for life and evolution weren’t created by the Big Bang. These elements were created by the nuclear fusion within stars, and the only way they spread throughout the universe was through the explosion of some of these stars in supernovas. Looking up at the stars has always inspired our species.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
counterpunch.org | Joseph Grosso
By now it has been widely reported that we just lived through the hottest summer on record. Of course, the same thing was said a year ago about the previous summer. According to the Energy Institute’s Statistical Review of World Energy, greenhouse gas emissions hit a record high in 2023, increasing by 2 percent to exceed 40 gigatones of CO2 equivalent for the first time (a gigatone is one billion tons). Again, another record that was also set the previous year.
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
counterpunch.org | Joseph Grosso
A serious look at the state of global energy presents something of a double-edged sword. On one hand, 2023 was another record year for renewable installations worldwide. An estimated 507 GW (gigawatts) of new generation capacity was installed a 50 percent increase from 2022.
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Vijay Prashad |Bharat Dogra |Joseph Grosso |David Sugar
Each year, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) releases its World Migration Report. Most of these reports are anodyne, pointing to a secular rise in migration during the period of neoliberalism. As states in the poorer parts of the world found themselves under assault from the Washington Consensus (cuts, privatization, and austerity), and as employment became more and more precarious, larger and larger numbers of people took to the road to find a way to sustain their families.
