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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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Trump still wants Expensive Coal but the Market wants Cheap wind & Solar

Trump still wants Expensive Coal but the Market wants Cheap wind & Solar

By Jonathan Marshall | (Consortiumnews.com) | – – Market trends now favor renewable energy as a cost-effective alternative to fossil fuels, but President Trump’s resistance […]

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Bashar al-Assad
Will Trump manage to stab both Syrian Kurds and Turkey in the Back at same time?

Will Trump manage to stab both Syrian Kurds and Turkey in the Back at same time?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump is alleged to have promised Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan that he will cease arming the […]

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Egypt
Extremists Kill 235 at Mosque in Egypt's Sinai

Extremists Kill 235 at Mosque in Egypt’s Sinai

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – A massive explosion went off outside a mosque in the small town (pop. 2500) of Rawdah […]

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Donald Trump
The Falsehood of Trump's 'Precision Strikes' and 'Clean Wars'

The Falsehood of Trump’s ‘Precision Strikes’ and ‘Clean Wars’

By Paul Rogers | ( OpenDemocracy.net) | – – Trump’s worldview promises low-cost military success. The blasting apart of civilian lives in Iraq says otherwise. […]

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censorship
Saudi Arabia makes it 'Terrorism' to Criticize the King

Saudi Arabia makes it ‘Terrorism’ to Criticize the King

Human Rights Watch | – – (New York) – Saudi Arabia’s new counterterrorism law includes vague and overly broad definitions of acts of terrorism, in […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Israel’s Bedouin as Sisyphus: Homes destroyed over & over

Israel’s Bedouin as Sisyphus: Homes destroyed over & over

By Aniqa Raihan | ( Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – Thousands of Arab Bedouins in Israel’s Negev desert are denied power, water, sewage, […]

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Donald Trump
As Flynn cuts off WH, top 4 Alleged Crimes he could sink Trump with

As Flynn cuts off WH, top 4 Alleged Crimes he could sink Trump with

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Ret. 3-star general Michael Flynn, under investigation by Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller, has ceased sharing information […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Is Palestinian Pres. Abbas refusing to take Jared Kushner's Phone Calls?

Is Palestinian Pres. Abbas refusing to take Jared Kushner’s Phone Calls?

Middle East Monitor | – – Haaretz reported on Thursday 23 November, 2017, that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas refused Wednesday to answer a phone call […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
“Give me Liberty & Give Me Liquor” Anbar, Iraq after ISIL

“Give me Liberty & Give Me Liquor” Anbar, Iraq after ISIL

Kamal al-Ayash. | Anbar | (Niqash.org) | – – Even before the extremists were in control in Anbar, selling alcohol was banned. During extremist control, […]

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