China imported 389,000 barrels per day of Venezuelan oil in 2025, about 4% of its total
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Protests in Iran and the Dark Memory of Internet Blackouts
Political slogans grew sharper, and in some places the protests shifted from economic dissent to open calls for regime change.
Gaza: Six Reasons why Netanyahu is prolonging Conflict in the Middle East
Netanyahu continues to gamble on the possibility that international and regional opinion may eventually become receptive to ethnic cleansing
Electric car Registrations in Germany rise by 43% in 2025, despite end of Subsidies
Average CO2 emissions of new cars fell by almost 12 percent, to an average of 105.8 grammes per kilometre
Juan Cole: Islam, History and the Enlargement of the Self
They discuss Cole’s career, ranging from his upbringing in a military family to becoming a leading public intellectual during the Iraq War
An Atomic Armageddon? Will the U.S. and Russia Abandon All Nuclear Restraints?
Russian and American leaders will face no barriers to the expansion of those thermonuclear arsenals
Melting Ice Makes the Greenland Minerals Trump Wants Dangerous to Extract: Climate Change
the Arctic’s climate is changing more rapidly than anywhere on Earth, further increasing the already substantial economic and personal risk
Genocide in Gaza, Apartheid in the Palestinian West Bank: UN Report
Palestinians face “criminal prosecution in military courts during which their due process and fair trial rights are systematically violated.”
The Power Play President
For Trump, peace negotiations and military operations are simply different means to the same end: total control
Iran Protests have put the Country’s Political System on Trial
The unrest poses the most serious challenge to Iran’s political establishment since 2022
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