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 […]
UN’s IPC: Gaza out of Famine for Now, but Severe Malnutrition Continues, as Newborn dies of Hypthermia
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification or IPC, on which the United Nations depends to determine the level of nutritional crises around the world, delivered the good news on Friday that Gaza is now no longer in famine. While that report is welcome, the situation that Israel is imposing on […]
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