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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

08/25/2025 By Global Voices

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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Ethnically Cleansed Burmese Rohingya reach 600,000 in Bangladesh Camps

Ethnically Cleansed Burmese Rohingya reach 600,000 in Bangladesh Camps

By Naimul Haq | (Inter Press Service) | – – IPS Correspondent Naimul Haq interviews WILLIAM LACY SWING, Director General of the International Organization for […]

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Climate Change
Climate Denier Rupert Murdoch's Estate Burned in LA December Wildfires

Climate Denier Rupert Murdoch’s Estate Burned in LA December Wildfires

The Watchers | – – 1. 1. Rupert's network denies global warming.2. Global warming burns down his home.3. The end.#LAfire https://t.co/FYbm19TY9z — jp (@jpdoctor) December […]

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Donald Trump
How Trump's Jerusalem Move Just Helped Iran Win the Mideast

How Trump’s Jerusalem Move Just Helped Iran Win the Mideast

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Some sections of the crazy quilt that makes up the Trump administration want to push Iran […]

Juan Cole

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Another way Trump will get us Killed: to move US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem

Another way Trump will get us Killed: to move US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The White House says that the US is preparing to move its embassy to Jerusalem and […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
All Trump's Mideast Wars: 26,000 troops overseas

All Trump’s Mideast Wars: 26,000 troops overseas

By Paul Rogers | ( OpenDemocracy.net | From Washington to Cairo, military aggression and “keeping the lid on” are proving deadly. And they will never […]

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History
Far Right's Misuse of Knights Templar, Who were actually Sympathetic to Muslims

Far Right’s Misuse of Knights Templar, Who were actually Sympathetic to Muslims

Patrick Masters | (The Conversation) | – – When market trader Tina Gayle was banned from selling mugs featuring Knights Templar logos in a Loughborough […]

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Eastern Europe
How Eastern Europe failed at Democracy & Invented Trumpism Instead

How Eastern Europe failed at Democracy & Invented Trumpism Instead

By John Feffer | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – He was a rich businessman, an outspoken outsider with a love of conspiracy theories. And he […]

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Climate Change
German Poll: Trump a bigger Challenge than N. Korea, Russia or Syria

German Poll: Trump a bigger Challenge than N. Korea, Russia or Syria

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – A public opinion poll on German foreign policy carried out by the Koerber Foundation for its […]

Juan Cole

Yemen
Yemen: Ali Abdullah Saleh Leaves Behind Grim Legacy

Yemen: Ali Abdullah Saleh Leaves Behind Grim Legacy

Human Rights Watch | – – Ex-President’s Death Underscores Need for Impartial Investigations (Beirut) – The killing of former longtime Yemeni president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, […]

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