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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

05/16/2025 By Tom Engelhardt

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Afghanistan
Trump’s Bluster meets the Afghanistan Reality amid Troop Escalation

Trump’s Bluster meets the Afghanistan Reality amid Troop Escalation

By Alfred W. McCoy | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – After nine months of confusion, chaos, and cascading tweets, Donald Trump’s White House has finally […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Prince Charles baffled no US President will take on Israel Lobbies

Prince Charles baffled no US President will take on Israel Lobbies

Middle East Monitor | – – Prince Charles has come under fire after it came to light that he blamed the “influx of foreign Jews” […]

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Economy
GOP Tax Breaks for Billionaires would Help Trump Appointees Most of All

GOP Tax Breaks for Billionaires would Help Trump Appointees Most of All

by Allan Sloan. | ( ProPublica) | – – The Republican proposal will not only allow them to pass millions (or billions) to their heirs […]

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Wind powered all of Scotland in October & other Renewable Success Stories

Wind powered all of Scotland in October & other Renewable Success Stories

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Wind and solar keep falling in price– each fell 6% in 2016. That fall was not […]

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Lebanon
Saudi failures, from Qatar to Yemen, bode ill for its Success in Lebanon

Saudi failures, from Qatar to Yemen, bode ill for its Success in Lebanon

By Beverly Milton-Edwards | ( OpenDemocracy.net ) | – – Domestic politics in the Middle East especially in a country like Saudi Arabia never stays […]

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Donald Trump
Unlike Houston, only 43% of Puerto Rico has Power 7 weeks on

Unlike Houston, only 43% of Puerto Rico has Power 7 weeks on

MSNBC | (Video News Report) | – – “Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in September. It’s November and power went out again. Velshi and Ruhle […]

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Climate Change
Climate change victims need official refugee status: Oxfam

Climate change victims need official refugee status: Oxfam

By Marion Candau | EURACTIV.fr | translated by Paola Tamma | – – With the COP23 climate conference ongoing in Bonn, Oxfam published a troubling […]

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Nasrullah: Saudi has declared war on Lebanon

Nasrullah: Saudi has declared war on Lebanon

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Al Jazeera Arabic reports that Hassan Nasrullah, the secretary-general of Hizbullah accused Saudi Arabia of declaring […]

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Brazil
Brazil: Huge Solar Plant to help get to 45% Renewables by 2030

Brazil: Huge Solar Plant to help get to 45% Renewables by 2030

AFP News Agency | (Video News Clip) | – – “Brazil has lagged far behind in the shift to solar power, but the biggest facility […]

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