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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

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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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Spying on the Wrong People: The Hypocrisy of the Nunes Memo & FISA

Spying on the Wrong People: The Hypocrisy of the Nunes Memo & FISA

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The frenzy over the Nunes memo, likely to be released later today by the Trump administration, […]

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The Great Trump Bubble

The Great Trump Bubble

Nomi Prins | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – There’s been lots of fire and fury around Washington lately, including a brief government shutdown. In Donald […]

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206 Global Companies profit from Israeli Squatting in Palestinian West Bank

206 Global Companies profit from Israeli Squatting in Palestinian West Bank

Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) released a report on Wednesday identifying […]

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Green Energy
Is a Transition to Renewable Energy on the Verge of Being Unstoppable?

Is a Transition to Renewable Energy on the Verge of Being Unstoppable?

By Steven O. Kimbrough | ( Knowledge@Wharton) | – – As the world inches towards using more renewable energy and less fossil fuel for generating […]

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Green Energy
Why the 1st Floating Wind Farm, off Scotland, Might Save the World (Video

Why the 1st Floating Wind Farm, off Scotland, Might Save the World (Video

Statoil | (Video Report) | – – “Some people thought we were crazy when we put a giant wind turbine on top of a floating […]

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Donald Trump
Cherry-Picking Intel, Nunes and the Iraq War Disaster

Cherry-Picking Intel, Nunes and the Iraq War Disaster

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Here is a caution against the Nunes memo that the Republican Party intends to release: it […]

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Chiefs Of Three Russian Intelligence Agencies Travel To Washington

Chiefs Of Three Russian Intelligence Agencies Travel To Washington

Mike Eckel | ( RFE/RL) | – – WASHINGTON — The directors of Russia’s three main intelligence and espionage agencies all traveled to the U.S. […]

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Corruption
Saudi Prince reaps $106 bn from "Anti-Corruption" Scheme

Saudi Prince reaps $106 bn from “Anti-Corruption” Scheme

Middle East Monitor | – – Saudi media sources yesterday confirmed the release of all detainees held on corruption charges at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in […]

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Authoritarianism
Egypt: Sisi Warns Opposition After Call for Elections Boycott

Egypt: Sisi Warns Opposition After Call for Elections Boycott

TeleSur | – – Opposition parties and leaders are calling for a boycott of Egypt’s presidential elections after other candidates were arrested or intimidated. Egypt’s […]

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