The US was flooded with talking heads on the Sunday News Programs in the media, all of whom were trying to figure out the future course of action by the US in its activities against the Islamic State. I sincerely doubt that any of the commentators had any basis for their observations, but it does seem very clear that no one has a clue about how matters will unfold. One very thoughtful analysis, however, appeared in The Hindu. The article outlines the sequence of problems the US will face as it tries to determine a military response to the IS.
Despite heroic efforts and substantial efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, China now produces more of those gases than the United States and Europe combined. Indeed, the world is now producing 65% more carbon gases than it did in 1990, the year the world began to talk seriously about limiting such emissions. The UN meeting this week will tell us a great deal about whether progress will be made in the future to reduce carbon emissions–unless those emissions are reduced by at least 5% a year, then catastrophic global warming cannot be averted.
There was a very large protest in Moscow against Russian activities in Ukraine. The protesters reject President Putin’s explanation of events in Ukraine, and believe that Russia is the aggressor. The anti-war protest was the first since violence broke out in Ukraine last April, and apparently there were a lot of anti-Kremlin posters. The Russian people remember the loss of soldiers in the Russian military actions in Afghanistan and Chechnya and are worried about an escalation of violence in Ukraine.
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