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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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No, Trump, Ice isn’t growing at Poles, and Yes, we are Boiling the Earth

No, Trump, Ice isn’t growing at Poles, and Yes, we are Boiling the Earth

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Associated Press did a useful fact check of Trump’s bizarre assertions on climate change in […]

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Ankara warns US spec ops to Abandon Kurds or risk Turkish Attacks

Ankara warns US spec ops to Abandon Kurds or risk Turkish Attacks

TeleSur | – – Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag also stated that “those who support the terrorist organisation will become a target in this […]

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Afghanistan
US Pentagon will Keep fighting in Syria until they win the Vietnam War

US Pentagon will Keep fighting in Syria until they win the Vietnam War

By Danny Sjursen | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – Vietnam: it’s always there. Looming in the past, informing American futures. A 50-year-old war, once labeled […]

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Donald Trump
"Human Rights" highly Selective in Trump's first Year

“Human Rights” highly Selective in Trump’s first Year

Administration’s Middle East Foreign Policy Dismissive of Rights Values Elisa Epstein, Advocacy Coordinator | ( Human Rights Watch) | – – Senior US officials have […]

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Climate Change
In the Age of Big Climate Change we have to stop Farting Carbon

In the Age of Big Climate Change we have to stop Farting Carbon

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – This past year is what the era of Big Climate Change looks like. We are only […]

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Afghanistan
Afghanistan: Taliban Massacres nearly 100, wounds150 in Kabul

Afghanistan: Taliban Massacres nearly 100, wounds150 in Kabul

TeleSur | – – The explosion took place in an area near many embassies and government buildings. A bomb hidden in an ambulance killed at […]

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Corruption
Blood oil: more than half of the oil traded across the world has been stolen

Blood oil: more than half of the oil traded across the world has been stolen

By Leif Wenar | (The Conversation) | – – Donald Trump tweeted something true recently. Responding to the protests in Iran, the US president stated […]

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Saudi Arabia
Camel Contestants in Saudi Pageant busted for Botox

Camel Contestants in Saudi Pageant busted for Botox

By Daniel Martin Varisco | MENA Tidningen | – – The camel, once referred to as the “ship of the desert” for the Arabian Peninsula, […]

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Donald Trump
Many in Press fall for Trump's non-apology on retweet of anti-Muslim Hate

Many in Press fall for Trump’s non-apology on retweet of anti-Muslim Hate

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – In the course of Trump’s softball interview with his friend Piers Morgan, he said he’d be […]

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