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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 […]

‘Green Islam’: how Muslims are powering environmental Action across the World

‘Green Islam’: how Muslims are powering environmental Action across the World

08/26/2025 By The Conversation

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

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

08/25/2025 By Global Voices

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National Security State
An Empire of Graveyards

An Empire of Graveyards

By Tom Engelhardt | (Tomdispatch.com) |- – Recently, a memory of my son as a small boy came back to me. He was, in those […]

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In blow to Trump, Syrian Kurds call on al-Assad to Save them from Turkey

In blow to Trump, Syrian Kurds call on al-Assad to Save them from Turkey

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The hopes of the Trump administration to use the Syrian Kurds as a wedge against the […]

Juan Cole

Crime
Human Rights Win in Iran: Thousands of Death Sentences for Drugs Dropped

Human Rights Win in Iran: Thousands of Death Sentences for Drugs Dropped

Centre for Human Rights in Iran | Trans. & Ed. Global Voices Online An estimated 4,000 prisoners currently on death row in Iran for drug-related […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Palestinians: If Jerusalem is Off the Table, Peace is Off the Table

Palestinians: If Jerusalem is Off the Table, Peace is Off the Table

IMEMC News & Agencies International | – – Palestinian officials denounced, on Thursday, renewed statements by US President Donald Trump that Jerusalem is off the […]

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Employment
Plummeting Tourism to US, costing $10 bn., blamed on Trump Slump

Plummeting Tourism to US, costing $10 bn., blamed on Trump Slump

TeleSur | – – Some in the travel industry attribute the decline to something they call the “Trump slump.” Travel to the United States has […]

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China surges with 52 Gigs of new Solar as Trump kneecaps US sector with 30% Tariffs

China surges with 52 Gigs of new Solar as Trump kneecaps US sector with 30% Tariffs

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Clean Technica reports that China blew the top off expectations for its solar installations in 2017, […]

Juan Cole

Fossil Fuels
It is all about the Oil: US Diplomats on Mideast Obsession

It is all about the Oil: US Diplomats on Mideast Obsession

By Edward Hunt | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – A Rare Glimpse into the Inner Workings of the American Empire in the Middle […]

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Democratic Party
US partisan divide over Israel at its widest ever, new poll finds

US partisan divide over Israel at its widest ever, new poll finds

Middle East Monitor | – – The US partisan divide between Republicans and Democrats over Israel is now wider than at any point in the […]

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Germany
German Anti-Muslim Party Member in Surprise Conversion to Islam

German Anti-Muslim Party Member in Surprise Conversion to Islam

TeleSur | – – Arthur Wagner resigned from Alternative for Germany (AfD) on January 11 for “personal reasons” and “only afterwards was it known that […]

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