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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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Solar & Wind: How free electricity would change the world (Economist Video)

Solar & Wind: How free electricity would change the world (Economist Video)

The Economist | (Video News Report) | – – “magine if heating and powering homes became free in the next decade. What would that mean […]

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Children
Iraq: Parliament Rejects Marriage for 8-Year-Old Girls

Iraq: Parliament Rejects Marriage for 8-Year-Old Girls

Human Rights Watch | – – Amendments Would Have Instated Discriminatory Laws on Family Matters (Beirut) – Iraq’s parliament has rejected proposed amendments to Iraq’s […]

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Climate Change
Global Heating: 3 Largest Wildfires in California History all have Raged since 2012

Global Heating: 3 Largest Wildfires in California History all have Raged since 2012

The Watchers | – – The Thomas Fire in California is burning for the 13th day in a row and has now grown to 259 […]

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Bashar al-Assad
Putin's talk of Draw Down in Syria isn't about Russia leaving, but staying

Putin’s talk of Draw Down in Syria isn’t about Russia leaving, but staying

By Moritz Pieper | (The Conversation) | – – Standing on the Russian military airbase at Khmeimim on his December visit to Syria, Vladimir Putin […]

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Climate Change
Having had Green Electricity for 300 days, Costa Rica Moves to EVs

Having had Green Electricity for 300 days, Costa Rica Moves to EVs

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Costa Rica, which has among the cleanest electrical grids in the world, has just passed a […]

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Climate Change
To stop Global Heating, Meat Taxes are Coming

To stop Global Heating, Meat Taxes are Coming

By Matt Mace | edie.net | (Euractiv.com) – – Estimates suggest that meat and dairy demand will mean agriculture will emit 20 gigatonnes of emission […]

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Addiction
Marijuana’s Key Ingredient Not Dangerous or Addictive: WHO

Marijuana’s Key Ingredient Not Dangerous or Addictive: WHO

TeleSur | – – The committee is expected to make detailed recommendations based on an in-depth review in May 2018. The main ingredient, Cannabidiol, CBD […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Trump did This: Israeli Troops injure 150 Palestinian protesters in Palestine

Trump did This: Israeli Troops injure 150 Palestinian protesters in Palestine

Ma`an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Thousands of Palestinians took to the streets on Friday in continued protest of US President Donald […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Trump did this: Israeli Troops injure Palestinians

Trump did this: Israeli Troops injure Palestinians

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Redirect: This article is found here {click)

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