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Energy
Donald Trump versus the Aberdeen Wind Farm: Fiddling while Rome Burns

Donald Trump versus the Aberdeen Wind Farm: Fiddling while Rome Burns

Juan Cole

Scotland has approved 11 wind turbines in Aberdeen, which will supply have the town’s electricity. They are being touted as job-creators and engines of economic growth, and are locally popular. (Green energy has already created 11,000 jobs in Scotland and the country is rapidly increasing the amount of electricity it generates from renewables). But Donald […]

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'Cowboy Windfarm' Powers Oklahoma State U

‘Cowboy Windfarm’ Powers Oklahoma State U

Juan Cole

The ‘Cowboy Windfarm’ is now providing 70% of the electricity used by Oklahoma State University!

Arab World
Instead of offering to Buy East Jerusalem, the Arab League should invite Israel to Join It

Instead of offering to Buy East Jerusalem, the Arab League should invite Israel to Join It

Juan Cole

Shaikh Hamad al-Thani, the leader of Qatar, proposed in his speech to the Arab League the creation of a $1 billion fund to preserve the Arab character of East Jerusalem, which is gradually being taken over by Israelis and its Arab inhabitants gradually expelled. Shaikh Hamad offered to put in $250 million to start off […]

Iraq
Iraq: A country whose Future was Stolen (Jamail)

Iraq: A country whose Future was Stolen (Jamail)

Juan Cole

Dahr Jamail writes at Tomdispatch.com Back then, everybody was writing about Iraq, but it’s surprising how few Americans, including reporters, paid much attention to the suffering of Iraqis.  Today, Iraq is in the news again. The words, the memorials, the retrospectives are pouring out, and again the suffering of Iraqis isn’t what’s on anyone’s mind.  […]

Libya
Qaddafi’s Arms Flooding Middle East from Libya

Qaddafi’s Arms Flooding Middle East from Libya

Juan Cole

The UN is concerned that unsecured weapons stockpiles from the depots of the late dictator Muammar Qaddafi are flooding into Africa and the Middle East from southern Libya, where the new, elected government exerts little control. Aljazeera English reports Obviously, the Libyan government with the help of neighbors and Europe, ought to be buying back […]

Energy
How Climate Change Disrupts Industry:  Michael E. Mann Video Interview

How Climate Change Disrupts Industry: Michael E. Mann Video Interview

Juan Cole

Michael E. Mann on the impact of climate change on industry:

Iraq War
BBC Journalists accidentally Bombed by US Air Force during 2003 Invasion of Iraq (Video)

BBC Journalists accidentally Bombed by US Air Force during 2003 Invasion of Iraq (Video)

Juan Cole

BBC crew accidentally bombed by US Air Force during 2003 invasion of Iraq: Video at Youtube:

Afghanistan
Kerry Cajoles Afghanistan and Iraq, as Bush’s former colonies decline to Toe the Line

Kerry Cajoles Afghanistan and Iraq, as Bush’s former colonies decline to Toe the Line

Juan Cole

Secretary of State John Kerry just made trips to Afghanistan and Iraq, the Bush administration’s two trophy states, in an attempt to shore up rapidly declining American influence in the two. In Afghanistan, the mood is turning against a US troop presence after 2014. In the last couple of weeks, President Hamid Karzai successfully insisted […]

Afghanistan
US Drone Campaign in Pakistan: Amazing Infographic (Serle)

US Drone Campaign in Pakistan: Amazing Infographic (Serle)

Juan Cole

Jack Serle writes at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism Pitch Interactive have visualised every CIA drone strike and every casualty in Pakistan. A new interactive graphic, which uses the Bureau’s drone data, has brought a fresh perspective to the CIA’s nine-year drone campaign in Pakistan. A team of developers has pulled together every known drone […]

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