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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

05/16/2025 By Foreign Policy in Focus

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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Israel/ Palestine
How Israeli PM Netanyahu relies on normalizing Genocide

How Israeli PM Netanyahu relies on normalizing Genocide

( Middle East Monitor ) – The UN has been stating that nowhere is safe in Gaza. Palestinians have been crying out the same, prior […]

Ramona Wadi

Climate Crisis
Water Shortage: Was Iran’s late President Raisi a Martyr to Climate Change?

Water Shortage: Was Iran’s late President Raisi a Martyr to Climate Change?

By Tarique Niazi | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi died on May 19 while returning from a ceremony […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

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Can Iran's New Reformist President Deliver?

Can Iran’s New Reformist President Deliver?

Newark, Delaware (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Elections in Iran have predictable outcomes. The men picked by the Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, engage in […]

Fariba Amini

BDS
Do-it-Yourself Divestment: Bringing Anti-Gaza War Activism Home

Do-it-Yourself Divestment: Bringing Anti-Gaza War Activism Home

Yes, schools and other institutions should divest from companies involved in war crimes or fueling the climate crisis. But individuals can also divest. Here’s how. […]

Common Dreams

Climate Crisis
Climate Crisis sees rise in illegal Water Markets in the Middle East

Climate Crisis sees rise in illegal Water Markets in the Middle East

By Christian Klassert, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ and Samer Talozi, Jordan University for Science and Technology | – (The Conversation) – In Jordan’s cities, […]

The Conversation

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Israeli Campaign against Gaza may Kill 186,000 or More -- 8% of Population:  The Lancet

Israeli Campaign against Gaza may Kill 186,000 or More — 8% of Population: The Lancet

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Rasha Khatib, Martin McKee and Salim Yusuf, The Lancet calculate that 186,000 or more people may be killed* by the […]

Juan Cole

Displaced and Refugees
Sudan is now Confronting its most severe Food Security Crisis on Record

Sudan is now Confronting its most severe Food Security Crisis on Record

By Rob Vos, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Khalid Siddig, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) | – (The Conversation) – After 14 […]

The Conversation

Displaced and Refugees
War and Famine: America’s War on Terror and the Wasting of our Democracy

War and Famine: America’s War on Terror and the Wasting of our Democracy

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Many war stories end with hunger wreaking havoc on significant portions of a population. In Christian theology, the Biblical “four horses […]

Andrea Mazzarino

Bashar al-Assad
Turkey-Syria Normalization Bid stirs Violent unrest in both Countries

Turkey-Syria Normalization Bid stirs Violent unrest in both Countries

Istanbul (Special to Informed Comment; Featured) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan recently said “there is no reason” not to pursue normalization of diplomatic ties […]

Volkan Isbasaran

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