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When even Saudi Arabia Jumps into Solar and Wind Power, You know Change is Here
Climate Crisis

When even Saudi Arabia Jumps into Solar and Wind Power, You know Change is Here

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Saudi Arabia’s massive oil deposits and its 9.53 million barrels per day (bpd) of petroleum production make it an enormous […]

How Europe is managing Guilt over Gaza: The Politics of moral Cleansing

How Europe is managing Guilt over Gaza: The Politics of moral Cleansing

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Trump Junk: Won’t Enforce Rules for Short-Term Junk Health Insurance Plans

Trump Junk: Won’t Enforce Rules for Short-Term Junk Health Insurance Plans

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Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Minister, Dozens of Settlers Storm 3rd Holiest Islamic Shrine

Israeli Minister, Dozens of Settlers Storm 3rd Holiest Islamic Shrine

JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israeli MK and Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Uri Yehuda Ariel, along with dozens of Israeli settlers, stormed on Sunday the […]

Maan News Agency

Iran
A Trump War on Iran would destroy that Country, but would it Bring down the US as Well?

A Trump War on Iran would destroy that Country, but would it Bring down the US as Well?

To engage in war with Iran, Mr. Trump would need an excuse. He would need to show that Iran is a mortal threat to America, […]

William R. Polk

Myanmar
Myanmar: Nobelist Suu Kyi silent as Rohingya Crisis Rolls On; let's at Least help the Refugees

Myanmar: Nobelist Suu Kyi silent as Rohingya Crisis Rolls On; let’s at Least help the Refugees

I sneaked into Myanmar on a tourist visa because the military junta running the country made it almost impossible to travel as a journalist. So […]

Reese Erlich

Torturers
No one, not Psychologists or Supreme Court Justices, should be Helping with Gov't Torture

No one, not Psychologists or Supreme Court Justices, should be Helping with Gov’t Torture

San Francisco ( Tomdispatch.com) – Sometimes the good guys do win. That’s what happened on August 8th in San Francisco when the Council of Representatives […]

Rebecca Gordon

Climate Crisis
Masses around Globe Rally against Climate Crisis & Gov't Inaction, Defying Trump

Masses around Globe Rally against Climate Crisis & Gov’t Inaction, Defying Trump

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Environmental activists protested Saturday in 90 countries and 800 cities across the globe and the United States against inaction on […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Iraq: Muqtada al-Sadr demands PM Abadi Resign after Massive Basra anti-Corruption Protests

Iraq: Muqtada al-Sadr demands PM Abadi Resign after Massive Basra anti-Corruption Protests

Baghdad (AFP) – Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi faced calls to resign Saturday as his alliance with a populist cleric who won May elections crumbled […]

Ammar Karim

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Snipers Murder unarmed Palestinian Teen Protester in Gaza, Wound 45 Others

Israeli Snipers Murder unarmed Palestinian Teen Protester in Gaza, Wound 45 Others

Gaza City (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) – A Palestinian teen died of his wounds Saturday a day after he was shot by Israeli troops during a […]

AFP

Israel/ Palestine
Trump Cuts $25 mn in Aid to Hospitals serving Palestinians in E. Jerusalem

Trump Cuts $25 mn in Aid to Hospitals serving Palestinians in E. Jerusalem

Washington (AFP) – The United States plans to cut $25 million in aid to six hospitals primarily serving Palestinians in Jerusalem, a State Department official […]

AFP

Barack Obama
Obama shifts Left, Embraces Medicare for All, in Hopes of Galvanizing Democrats

Obama shifts Left, Embraces Medicare for All, in Hopes of Galvanizing Democrats

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Barack Obama came out of retirement Friday to give a stump speech at the University of Illinois, in hopes of […]

Juan Cole

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