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America may have invaded Iraq for its Oil, but Solar Power is what Iraqis now Want
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America may have invaded Iraq for its Oil, but Solar Power is what Iraqis now Want

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Iraqi farmers, tired of high electricity bills and frequent blackouts, are turning to solar panels, according to Khalid Al-Mousuly at […]

Despite Efforts to Shift the Blame, Israeli Policies Are Starving Children

Despite Efforts to Shift the Blame, Israeli Policies Are Starving Children

08/21/2025 By Human Rights Watch

We’ll all Feel the Abrupt Changes Striking Antarctica Sea Ice and Ocean Currents

We’ll all Feel the Abrupt Changes Striking Antarctica Sea Ice and Ocean Currents

08/21/2025 By The Conversation

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Pentagon
Top Trump officials, in Syria's Raqqa, vow "Stabilization" w/out "Reconstruction"

Top Trump officials, in Syria’s Raqqa, vow “Stabilization” w/out “Reconstruction”

Middle East Monitor | – – The US government’s aid chief, Mark Green, made an unannounced visit to Raqqa in Syria on Monday, the most […]

Juan Cole

Inequality
World's Richest 1% Acquired 82% of Wealth in 2017: Report

World’s Richest 1% Acquired 82% of Wealth in 2017: Report

TeleSur | – – Only 42 people own the same amount of wealth as the poorest 50 percent worldwide, the report claimed. Nearly 82 percent […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Trump Year 2: We refuse to be Terrorized

Trump Year 2: We refuse to be Terrorized

San Francisco (Tomdispatch.com) | – A little over a year ago at TomDispatch I wrote about the bloody nightmares rupturing my sleep and the night […]

Rebecca Gordon

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Turkey launches Land invasion of Syria, Calls France opposition "Terrorism"

Turkey launches Land invasion of Syria, Calls France opposition “Terrorism”

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – BBC Arabic reports that Turkey has launched a land invasion of the Kurdish-majority Afrin canton in […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Trump's deeming Jerusalem Israeli Capital Portends Fiercer Mideast, Iran Conflicts

Trump’s deeming Jerusalem Israeli Capital Portends Fiercer Mideast, Iran Conflicts

By Kenneth Brown | (Informed Comment) | – – As a visiting student in Jerusalem I witnessed the 1956 Suez war against Egypt, the attempt […]

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China
Is China coming into Syria for its "One Belt, One Road"?

Is China coming into Syria for its “One Belt, One Road”?

By Neil Thompson | (Informed Comment) | – – As the Syrian civil war begins to wind down after six and a half years of […]

Neil Thompson

Egypt
Pence starts Middle East tour in Egypt, pledges ‘shoulder-to-shoulder’ support

Pence starts Middle East tour in Egypt, pledges ‘shoulder-to-shoulder’ support

Middle East Monitor | – – US Vice President Mike Pence kicked off a trip to the Middle East on Saturday with a visit to […]

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Donald Trump
The worst thing about Year One of Trump: Fascistization of Cable News

The worst thing about Year One of Trump: Fascistization of Cable News

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – American mass media journalism is broken. There are some simple elements of US journalistic practice that […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Thousands protest for Women's Rights in Los Angeles, around Country (Video)

Thousands protest for Women’s Rights in Los Angeles, around Country (Video)

May Lee | (CGTN) | – – The rally in Los Angeles last year dwarfed those in most other cities. Did the City of the […]

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