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When even Saudi Arabia Jumps into Solar and Wind Power, You know Change is Here
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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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Trump Admin flooding Planet with high Tech Weapons; What could Go Wrong?

Trump Admin flooding Planet with high Tech Weapons; What could Go Wrong?

Military-Industrial Complex Set for Huge Expansion

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Nearly a year after Trump bombed Syria, al-Assad and Russia extend control

Nearly a year after Trump bombed Syria, al-Assad and Russia extend control

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Syrian war limps along at the margins. It is over where it matters but continues […]

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Burn Pits and Toxins: Are 800 US Bases abroad Scofflaw Polluters?

Burn Pits and Toxins: Are 800 US Bases abroad Scofflaw Polluters?

H. Patricia Hynes | (Informed Comment) | – – My nephew, an Army veteran who spent most of his 20 plus years military service as […]

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Employment
Tunisia: Austerity Protests roil Birthplace of Arab Spring

Tunisia: Austerity Protests roil Birthplace of Arab Spring

TeleSur | – – Protests have been taking place across the North African country over the past several nights in protest against government austerity measures […]

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Environment
EVs are Better: Iranian oil tanker in East China Sea could burn for a month

EVs are Better: Iranian oil tanker in East China Sea could burn for a month

Middle East Monitor | – – The stricken Iranian oil tanker in the East China Sea could burn for as long as one month, South […]

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Climate Change
Take That! NYC pulls $5 bn from Big Oil, Sues Majors for Climate Damage

Take That! NYC pulls $5 bn from Big Oil, Sues Majors for Climate Damage

Andrea Germanos, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org ) | – – “We are taking the largest action by any city to confront the growing climate […]

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Donald Trump
Iran's Khamenei: Trump Unbalanced, Playing Crazy Games, but Iran policy will Fail

Iran’s Khamenei: Trump Unbalanced, Playing Crazy Games, but Iran policy will Fail

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Iran’s clerical leader, Ali Khamenei, gave a speech in Qom on Tuesday, in which he warned […]

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Donald Trump
Neo-Nazi Game of Thrones: Bannon forced out at Breitbart

Neo-Nazi Game of Thrones: Bannon forced out at Breitbart

TeleSur | – – Steve Bannon resigned as chief executive of Breitbart News, the right-leaning website said on Tuesday The resignation occurred after the former […]

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Corruption
Why Israel doesn’t run on Solar:  Netanyahu’s son boasts of father’s gas deal at strip club

Why Israel doesn’t run on Solar: Netanyahu’s son boasts of father’s gas deal at strip club

Middle East Monitor | – – A recording emerged yesterday of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son Yair boasting that his father had set up […]

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