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Al Gore | The Turning Point: New Hope for the Climate
Al Gore, Rolling Stone
Gore writes: "In the struggle to solve the climate crisis, a powerful, largely unnoticed shift is taking place. The forward journey for human civilization will be difficult and dangerous, but it is now clear that we will ultimately prevail."
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Juan Cole | Who Are Iraq's Sunni Arabs and What Did We Do to Them?
Juan Cole, Informed Comment
Cole writes: "The two great branches of Islam coexist in Iraq across linguistic and ethnic groups. There are Sunni Arabs and Shiite Arabs, Sunni Kurds and (a tiny minority of) Shiite Kurds. Arabs are a linguistic group, speaking a Semitic language. Kurds speak and Indo-European language related to English."
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Robert Sheer | Up Close and Personal With George W. Bush's Horrifying Legacy
Robert Sheer, TruthDig
Sheer writes: "The Iraq disaster remains George W. Bush's enduring folly, and the Republican attempt to shift the blame to the Obama presidency is obscene nonsense. This was, and will always be, viewed properly as Bush's quagmire, a murderous killing field based on blatant lies."
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Tony Abbott Says Australia "Open For Business," Plans 5 Megaports on Great Barrier Reef
Kathy Marks, The Independent
Marks writes: "Coal versus coral? For Queensland's ultra-conservative government, there's no contest. Never mind that the Great Barrier Reef is already in peril - the government has approved the development of five 'megaports' along its coastline."
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Georgia, Missouri Carry Out First Executions Since Oklahoma Incident
Associated Press
Excerpt: "Within an hour, Georgia, then Missouri carried out the nation's first executions since a botched lethal injection in Oklahoma in April raised new concerns about capital punishment."
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Elon Musk Announces Plans to Put Humans on Mars by 2026
Iain Thomson, The Register
Thomson writes: "Electric car and rocket tycoon Elon Musk says that he'll put the first human boots on Mars well before the 2020s are over - and says he'll float his SpaceX company on Earth-bound stock exchanges once the interplanetary mission gets underway."
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Focusing International Efforts on Ivory Slaughter
Bryan Christy, National Geographic
Christy writes: "Ask anyone in America-anyone in the world, for that matter-to name an international wildlife trafficker, and chances are they won't be able to give a single name, even though wildlife crime is widely viewed as being among the world's most profitable forms of transnational crime."
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