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China Aims to Spend at Least $360 Billion on Renewable Energy by 2020

Michael L Forsythe The New York Times
The investment commitment made by the Chinese, combined with Mr. Trump’s moves, means jobs that would have been created in the United States may instead go to Chinese workers... Greenpeace estimates that China installed an average of more than one wind turbine every hour of every day in 2015, and covered the equivalent of one soccer field every hour with solar panels.

Anti-Semitic Zionists

Uri Avnery Gush Shalom
Can Trump's administration include rabid Zionists and rabid anti-Semites at the same time? Of course it can.

Rising Inequality Is Far From Inevitable

Robert Kuttner The American Prospect
For a generation after World War II, America was far more equal than we are today. Can we ever get that back? Of course we can—the obstacles are political, not economic.