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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 […]

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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Climate Change
COP23: Global Heating threatens Mideast with Mega-Droughts

COP23: Global Heating threatens Mideast with Mega-Droughts

By Christophe Maroun | ( GlobalVoices.org) | – – As the world's nations met in Bonn, Germany for the 23rd annual conference of the parties […]

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Donald Trump
MbS a la Trump: "Making Saudi Arabia Great Again"!

MbS a la Trump: “Making Saudi Arabia Great Again”!

By Reese Erlich | ( 48hills.org) | – – I stood in front of a mosque in the city of Qatif, Saudi Arabia, interviewing people […]

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Donald Trump
Trump’s revival of ‘Tactical Nuclear Weapons’ Idiocy endangers World

Trump’s revival of ‘Tactical Nuclear Weapons’ Idiocy endangers World

By Michael T. Klare | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – Maybe you thought America’s nuclear arsenal, with its thousands of city-busting, potentially civilization-destroying thermonuclear warheads, […]

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Displaced and Refugees
The Saudi-US war on Yemen is killing 130 Children a Day & Other Bleak Statistics

The Saudi-US war on Yemen is killing 130 Children a Day & Other Bleak Statistics

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Saudi-led coalition is waging total war on Yemen in a bid to defeat the guerrilla […]

Juan Cole

Plutocracy
Republicans Admit Their Tax Plan Is All About Rich Donors

Republicans Admit Their Tax Plan Is All About Rich Donors

By Peter Certo | (Otherwords.org) | – – It’s unpopular. It’s expensive. But the donors want it. Sometimes I have to remind myself that people […]

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Buddhism
Militant Buddhism is on the march in South-East Asia; Why Now?

Militant Buddhism is on the march in South-East Asia; Why Now?

By Peter Lehr | (The Conversation) | – – Even ten years on, the first mental image that comes to mind with regard to Theravāda […]

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Saudi Arabia
Is Saudi King Salman about to be pushed aside by Son?

Is Saudi King Salman about to be pushed aside by Son?

TeleSur | – – Speculation has mounted that the King of Saudi Arabia, Salman bin Abdulaziz, will step down and pass the throne to Crown […]

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Lebanese PM Hariri arrives in or Escapes to France

Lebanese PM Hariri arrives in or Escapes to France

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Lebanese prime minister Saad Hariri arrived Saturday morning with his family in Paris, after a two-week […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
US-Led Bombings in Iraq Killed 31 Times More Civilians Than Reported: NYT

US-Led Bombings in Iraq Killed 31 Times More Civilians Than Reported: NYT

By Jessica Corbett, staff writer| ( Commondreams.org ) | – – New York Times reporters uncovered “consistent failure by the coalition to investigate claims properly […]

Juan Cole

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