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Wind and Solar Provide 40% of Brazil’s Electricity for first time
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Wind and Solar Provide 40% of Brazil’s Electricity for first time

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – This month Brazil’s National Electric System Operator estimated that wind and solar are now producing nearly 40 percent of the […]

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Israel/Palestine: Microsoft Should Avoid Contributing to Rights Abuses

Israel/Palestine: Microsoft Should Avoid Contributing to Rights Abuses

10/11/2025 By Human Rights Watch

How Extreme Temperatures Strain Minds and Bodies: A Karachi Case Study

How Extreme Temperatures Strain Minds and Bodies: A Karachi Case Study

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Pilate responds with his show-stopping query: “What is truth?”

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Trump as Marie Antoinette: “Let them Eat Wall!” (Jamiol Cartoon)

There are instances, like those when we are faced with bigotry and hate speech

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Donald J. Mubarak? Why Trump Declaring a National Emergency over Wall is Very Bad

Trump is not a normal president (or person)

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Immigration
Not One Network Should Have Aired Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rant

Not One Network Should Have Aired Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rant

The point is systematic disinformation, to the point that facts mean nothing.

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Smoking Gun: Trump Campaign’s Manafort supplied Polling data to Kremlin GRU

Smoking Gun: Trump Campaign’s Manafort supplied Polling data to Kremlin GRU

Manafort admitted in a court filing Tuesday to sharing the polling data with former Russian intel. officer Konstantin Kilimnik

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Turkey's Erdogan snubs Bolton for support of Kurdish YPG: 'He made a grave Mistake'

Turkey’s Erdogan snubs Bolton for support of Kurdish YPG: ‘He made a grave Mistake’

By Luana Sarmini-Buonaccorsi and Fulya Ozerkan in Istanbul – Ankara, Turkey | AFP | – US National Security Advisor John Bolton was in Ankara to […]

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Acidification of Oceans
Wall or Watchtower?  The real Threat is invasive Climate Crisis, and our Shield is Science

Wall or Watchtower? The real Threat is invasive Climate Crisis, and our Shield is Science

The man who ordered the construction of the nearly infinite Wall of China was that First Emperor …who likewise ordered the burning of all the books before him

Juan Cole

Inequality
Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Right that Tax Justice is Key to our Democratic Prospect?

Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Right that Tax Justice is Key to our Democratic Prospect?

US “much greater shares of national wealth and income going to the richest 1% than any other country.”

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The Surprising Successes of Community Work with Muslim Refugees in Germany

The Surprising Successes of Community Work with Muslim Refugees in Germany

I studied the most positive refugee settlement programs inside Germany

Frances Trix

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