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California: Fossil Gas use Declining, replaced by Solar Plus Megabatteries
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California: Fossil Gas use Declining, replaced by Solar Plus Megabatteries

Juan Cole

Two-thirds of California’s electricity retail sales are now generated by renewables.

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From Sykes-Picot to Silicon Valley: Why Middle East Fault Lines now run through American Tech

From Sykes-Picot to Silicon Valley: Why Middle East Fault Lines now run through American Tech

12/19/2025 By Jasim Al-Azzawi

“We cannot Negotiate with the Melting Point of Ice:” World’s Ice Sheets shed 640 bn. Tons in 12 Months

“We cannot Negotiate with the Melting Point of Ice:” World’s Ice Sheets shed 640 bn. Tons in 12 Months

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Why Iranians are Really protesting Compulsory Veiling Laws

Why Iranians are Really protesting Compulsory Veiling Laws

By Moujan Mirdamadi | (The Conversation) | – – Protests against Iran’s mandatory hijab law – which requires all women to wear it in public […]

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Afghanistan
Did the Pentagon’s War on Drugs Confound Counter-Terrorism?

Did the Pentagon’s War on Drugs Confound Counter-Terrorism?

By Nick Turse | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – 2017 was a year of investigations for U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM).  There was the investigation of the […]

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Donald Trump
American Allegory?  Trump Aide Porter resigns amid Charges of Spousal Abuse (Video)

American Allegory? Trump Aide Porter resigns amid Charges of Spousal Abuse (Video)

Washington Post | (Video Clip) | – – “Jennie Willoughby is one of two ex-wives of White House aide, Rob Porter alleging emotional and physical […]

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Bashar al-Assad
Syria: Deir al-Zor attack on US Troops, allies, Shows their Vulnerability

Syria: Deir al-Zor attack on US Troops, allies, Shows their Vulnerability

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – US troops and the Kurdish and Arab fighters among whom they are embedded came under a […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Israel’s New Admirers: The White Nationalist Right

Israel’s New Admirers: The White Nationalist Right

By Harry Blain | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – A famously anti-Semitic movement has come to admire modern Israel’s “ethnonationalism.” That speaks volumes […]

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China
How Trump’s Erratic Isolationism is Helping China Rise

How Trump’s Erratic Isolationism is Helping China Rise

By Dilip Hiro | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – In his State of the Union address, Donald Trump warned grimly of “rivals like China and […]

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Syrian Kurds allied with US stream into Afrin, Rally against Turkish Offensive

Syrian Kurds allied with US stream into Afrin, Rally against Turkish Offensive

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Arabic daily Elaph reports that hundreds of Kurds who came into Afrin from other Kurdish […]

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Denialism
Even conservatives are resisting Trump’s radical assault on the environment

Even conservatives are resisting Trump’s radical assault on the environment

By Tan Copsey | (ChinaDialogue) | – – President Trump has been in power for just over a year and has enjoyed few policy successes. […]

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Colonialism
British Empire’s hidden workings in India and Iran revealed in remarkable new film footage

British Empire’s hidden workings in India and Iran revealed in remarkable new film footage

By Jonathan Westaway | The Conversation | – – In a basement office at the Royal Geographical Society in London’s South Kensington, grainy 16mm film […]

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