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

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

10/11/2025 By The Conversation

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Environmentalism
Can the Green New Deal Save the Planet *and* Create Jobs?

Can the Green New Deal Save the Planet *and* Create Jobs?

By Norah Vawter | – (Otherwords.org) – Lately there’s been a lot of bad news about climate change and the future of humanity. In October, […]

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Holocaust
Quantifying the Holocaust: Measuring murder rates during the Nazi genocide

Quantifying the Holocaust: Measuring murder rates during the Nazi genocide

Hitler “ordered all action speeded up.”

The Conversation

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Saudi Arabia muscles Netflix over Minhaj Criticism of Khashoggi Murder

Saudi Arabia muscles Netflix over Minhaj Criticism of Khashoggi Murder

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Netflix has been forced to pull Episode 2 of comedian Hasan Minhaj’s “Patriot Act” for Saudi viewers because it criticizes […]

Juan Cole

Islamophobia
Facebook's 'Virtual Coercive' Implicated in Rohingya Genocide

Facebook’s ‘Virtual Coercive’ Implicated in Rohingya Genocide

Is access to Facebook a pillar of free speech if the platform can be harnessed for the purpose of eliminating an entire population?

The Conversation

Foreign Policy
Pompeo Pledges continuing US Cooperation with Israel in Syria v. Iran

Pompeo Pledges continuing US Cooperation with Israel in Syria v. Iran

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday that the United States would continue to cooperate with Israel over Syria and in countering Iran […]

Middle East Monitor

Germany
Germany: MSM won't Tell you White Nationalist Drove into Muslim Refugees

Germany: MSM won’t Tell you White Nationalist Drove into Muslim Refugees

Police said the attack was premeditated and that one of the victims is still in hospital receiving treatment

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al-Qaeda
Trump's US in 2019:  Is the Mideast 'War on Terror' Paradigm Ending?

Trump’s US in 2019: Is the Mideast ‘War on Terror’ Paradigm Ending?

We’re talking a ten to fifteen year window for the American obsession with petroleum

Juan Cole

Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam on New Year

Omar Khayyam on New Year

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Trans. Edward Fitzgerald I. Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars […]

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UAE
Dubai New Year 2019 Fireworks & Laser Show at Burj Khalifa

Dubai New Year 2019 Fireworks & Laser Show at Burj Khalifa

Dubai New Year 2019 Full Fireworks & Laser Show at Burj Khalifa

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