From earth’s dark depths to Saturn’s pinnacle / I solved the puzzles of the turning skies.
2025 Climate Good News: Sustainables met all new Demand, EVs 25% of New Car Sales, Global Heating Projections fell to 2.8º C.
The most significant green energy good news stories we covered in 2025
The Rise of the Sunni Crescent in 2025: The US and the Middle East
The big victors in the rise of a Lebanon-Syria-Jordan Sunni Crescent are Turkiye and the Sunni Arab Gulf monarchies
Trump’s Strike on Nigeria: Joint with Muslim President, Unconstitutional, Useless Posturing for Evangelicals
Ironically, the strike was fully supported by the Muslim president of Nigeria, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu
Was Colonialism a Crime? Algerian Parliament Criminalizes 130 Years of French Rule
Bennoune He wrote not only of innumerable massacres by French commanders of local populations but also of a vast transfer of landed wealth
For Christmas: Jesus’ Life-Giving Breath and Persian Love Poetry
Muslim mystics such as Rumi, Attar and other Sufi writers often referred to Jesus as a symbol of spirituality and love.
Global South is now 1/3 of major EV Markets, Leaving US in the Dust
The adoption of electric vehicles has spread to the Global South and is no longer only a Chinese, European and American phenomenon.
“Another Cup to Drown the Memory:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:30
No. 30 in the first edition of Edward FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám continues the theme of bewilderment that we find ourselves, unasked, in the world, without a clear idea of the meaning of this life. The English verses portray these acts of being born and dying “without asking” as “impertinence,” i.e. insolence or […]
Israel: Polling suggests Extreme-Right Netanyahu Coalition in Trouble, as Tens of Thousands Protest
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A new opinion poll in Israel, published in Ma’ariv, is summarized in al-Balad. It shows that if Israel has early elections, the currently dominant right wing coalition would fall from holding roughly 61 seats in the 120-member Israeli parliament or Knesset to only 50. Likud is projected to lose 3 […]
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