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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

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

08/25/2025 By F. Douglas Stephenson

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Islam-hatred
Islamophobia barring young Western Muslims from Ordinary Politics

Islamophobia barring young Western Muslims from Ordinary Politics

By Peter Hopkins and Robin Finlay | (The Conversation) | – – Muslim youths tend to be portrayed as politically disengaged or potentially extremist. Debates […]

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Islamophobia
Exit Polls: Tolerant Dutch Reject Wilders' anti-Muslim Hate Speech

Exit Polls: Tolerant Dutch Reject Wilders’ anti-Muslim Hate Speech

TeleSur | Many see the Dutch vote as a referendum on the viability of the viciously anti-Muslim, anti-migrant politics represented by Geert Wilders. Dutch Prime […]

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Climate Change
Trump & Saudi Arabia:  Oil Boycott or Bromance?

Trump & Saudi Arabia: Oil Boycott or Bromance?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump is meeting this week with Muhammad bin Salman, the deputy heir apparent of the Saudi […]

Juan Cole

Militarization
Trump bankrupting us w/ Pentagon Budget suited to 1943

Trump bankrupting us w/ Pentagon Budget suited to 1943

By Michael T. Klare | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – If you are an American male of a certain age — Donald Trump’s age, to be […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Israel's Natural Gas war on Palestinians

Israel’s Natural Gas war on Palestinians

Ma’an News Agency | – – Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory does not only exist above ground. Since 1967, Israel has systematically colonized Palestinian natural […]

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Humor
N. Korea Interview interrupted by Unbearable Cuteness

N. Korea Interview interrupted by Unbearable Cuteness

BBC | (Video News Clip) | – – “There was an unexpected distraction for Professor Robert Kelly when he was being interviewed live on BBC […]

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Arab Americans
To understand Muslim ban 2.0, think of Trump as a Crime Boss

To understand Muslim ban 2.0, think of Trump as a Crime Boss

By Amir Ahmadi Arian | ( OpenDemocracy.net ) | – – Donald Trump is not an aberration. He is the extreme manifestation of an existing […]

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Is Russia trying to take back over Libya from NATO, Radicals?

Is Russia trying to take back over Libya from NATO, Radicals?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Reuters is reporting that some 22 Russian special operations forces have set up a base in […]

Juan Cole

Arab World
New Scientific Evidence that Middle East may become Uninhabitable

New Scientific Evidence that Middle East may become Uninhabitable

By Baher Kamal | (Inter Press Service) | – – ROME (IPS) – New evidence is deepening scientific fears, advanced few years ago, that the […]

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