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China’s Power Sector Emissions fall 5.8% in Q1, as Renewables rapidly Replace Coal
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China’s Power Sector Emissions fall 5.8% in Q1, as Renewables rapidly Replace Coal

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Lauri Myllyvirta writes at Carbon Brief that China’s CO2 emissions over-all fell by 1% in the past 12 months, and […]

Trump and Bukele: The Few Repressing the Many

Trump and Bukele: The Few Repressing the Many

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That Sucking Sound you hear is Trump Flushing America down the Toilet

That Sucking Sound you hear is Trump Flushing America down the Toilet

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Devastating Dolphin Loss in Florida Red Tide Industrial Farming Pollution Crime

Devastating Dolphin Loss in Florida Red Tide Industrial Farming Pollution Crime

More than 100 tons of dead sea creatures have been shoveled up from smelly, deserted beaches in tourist areas along Florida’s southwest coast as a […]

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Qatar
Qatar Emir Supports Crisis-Hit Turkey with Visit, Pledges $15 bn in New Investment

Qatar Emir Supports Crisis-Hit Turkey with Visit, Pledges $15 bn in New Investment

Doha (AFP) – The emir of wealthy Qatar flew to Turkey Wednesday to meet close ally President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in an apparent show of […]

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Trump wouldn't have let her in the Country, but Ilhan Omar is Likely joining Congress

Trump wouldn’t have let her in the Country, but Ilhan Omar is Likely joining Congress

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Ilhan Omar, a refugee and a Somali-heritage Muslim woman who veils, has won the Democratic primary for Minnesota’s Fifth District […]

Juan Cole

Turkey
Turkey’s Pres. Erdogan announces Boycott of US Electronic Goods

Turkey’s Pres. Erdogan announces Boycott of US Electronic Goods

Istanbul (AFP) – President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday said Turkey would boycott US electronic goods in retaliation for punitive sanctions by Washington against Ankara […]

AFP

Arms Sales
How Trump is Turning US Diplomats into Arms Merchants to the World

How Trump is Turning US Diplomats into Arms Merchants to the World

New York ( Tomdispatch.com) – American weapons makers have dominated the global arms trade for decades. In any given year, they’ve accounted for somewhere between […]

William D. Hartung

Saudi Arabia
Saudi Women can Finally Drive, But are their Voices Being Heard?

Saudi Women can Finally Drive, But are their Voices Being Heard?

By Nermin Allam | – Earlier this summer, Saudi Arabia lifted the decades-long ban on women’s driving. The move is part of a series of […]

The Conversation

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Defying Trump, Iraq’s PM walks Back Pledge to Boycott Iran, says will avoid Dollar Trade

Defying Trump, Iraq’s PM walks Back Pledge to Boycott Iran, says will avoid Dollar Trade

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Iraqi caretaker prime minister Haidar al-Abadi on Monday walked back his pledge last week that Iraq would participate in the […]

Juan Cole

Foreign Policy
Is the US-Turkish Military Alliance Doomed?

Is the US-Turkish Military Alliance Doomed?

by Thomas WATKINS | – Washington (AFP) – The crisis in US-Turkish relations, which already has put Turkey’s economy under massive strain, also risks souring […]

AFP

Green Transportation
Elon Musk says in Talks with Saudis on Taking Tesla Private

Elon Musk says in Talks with Saudis on Taking Tesla Private

By Rob Lever | – Washington (AFP) – Tesla chief executive Elon Musk disclosed Monday that he was in talks with Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth […]

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