Puerto Rico: On top of Everything Else, GOP Tax Bill is Racist
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Puerto Rico’s governor, Ricardo Rosselló Nevares, sent a letter to all the members of Congress yesterday, begging on bended knee for a supplemental disaster aid...
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Puerto Ricans aren’t giving up on Christmas
By Evelyn Milagros Rodriguez | (The Conversation) | – – Leer en español. Some say Puerto Rico has the longest Christmas in the world. Though much of Puerto Rico remains devastated by Hurricane Maria,...
View ArticleIf only they Were Houston: 45% Puerto Ricans still lack Power
TeleSur | – – Puerto Rico is now in its 100th day since Category 4 Hurricane Maria struck the island, damaging vast amounts of infrastructure and nearly eliminating its electrical and running water...
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How to Survive Climate Change: Learn from Puerto Ricans & Hurricane Maria
By Jane Palmer | ( Mosaic) | – – The rest of the world can learn from Puerto Rican communities rallying together to recover from a natural disaster fuelled by climate change. Christmas is a big deal in...
View ArticleIs this America? Entire Island of Puerto Rico plunged into Darkness Again!
The Watchers: Watching the World Evolve and Transform | – – Posted by Matti K on April 18, 2018 The power grid has collapsed in Puerto Rico and the entire island lost power on the morning of April 18,...
View ArticleWas the Roseanne Story really more Important than Puerto Rico’s 5,740 Death...
A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine finds that that likely range for deaths caused by Hurricane Maria was between 1,506 and 9,889, with 5,740 as the most likely number. Puerto Rico...
View ArticleStorm Death Toll in Puerto Rico Rivals 9/11: But where is War on Climate Change?
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A team of researchers at George Washington University has estimated that excess deaths of Americans in Puerto Rico during and after last year’s Hurricane Maria reached...
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Puerto Ricans displaced to Mainland by Hurricane, Trump Neglect, abandoned by...
New York (AFP) – They arrived in New York from Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria ravaged the island in September 2017, leaving widespread devastation in its wake and a death toll that would spiral to...
View ArticleDear Trump: Top 7 Signs Puerto Ricans might be Americans
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump caused a brouhaha by tweeting that Puerto Rican officials “only take from USA,” as thoug they weren’t part of the USA! Then his White House deputy press secretary...
View ArticleHouse censures defiant Rep. Gosar for Video in Which he Murders AOC, strips...
By Ulysse Bex | – ( Cronkite News) – WASHINGTON – The House censured Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Prescott, Wednesday and stripped him of his committee assignments as punishment for a violent cartoon he posted...
View ArticleCan Puerto Rico solve its perennial Energy Problems with Distributed and...
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) have put out a one-year progress report on Puerto Rico’s green energy transition...
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The Toxic Legacy of U.S. Foreign Policy in Vieques, Puerto Rico
The women of Vieques, an island off the east coast of Puerto Rico, have been on the front lines of the generations-long struggle for peace and justice to end the havoc wrought by U.S. foreign policy on...
View ArticleIsraeli Extremists Shamefully propose “Puerto Rican” Model for Palestinians
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Yair Wallach in a post at X notes that Jewish Power Party member Amihay Eliyahu proposes that Palestinians be treated by Israel as Puerto Ricans are by the United States....
View ArticleLatino Futurism and Puerto Rico’s Solar Insurrection: Panels, Batteries and...
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis thinks that the future of Puerto Rico is solar panels plus battery storage. It points out, moreover, that $12...
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