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China’s Power Sector Emissions fall 5.8% in Q1, as Renewables rapidly Replace Coal
China

China’s Power Sector Emissions fall 5.8% in Q1, as Renewables rapidly Replace Coal

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Lauri Myllyvirta writes at Carbon Brief that China’s CO2 emissions over-all fell by 1% in the past 12 months, and […]

Trump and Bukele: The Few Repressing the Many

Trump and Bukele: The Few Repressing the Many

05/16/2025 By Foreign Policy in Focus

That Sucking Sound you hear is Trump Flushing America down the Toilet

That Sucking Sound you hear is Trump Flushing America down the Toilet

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Iraq
Defeating ISIL in Iraq will Take Sunni-Shiite Reconciliation, not Just Tanks

Defeating ISIL in Iraq will Take Sunni-Shiite Reconciliation, not Just Tanks

London (Informed Comment) – As Iraqi, Kurdish and Syrian forces squeeze its territory in the Arab world and Turkey hunts down the group’s support networks […]

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Drones
Assassination by Robot is now US Policy

Assassination by Robot is now US Policy

By Rebecca Gordon | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – Think of it as the Trojan Drone, the ultimate techno-weapon of American warfare in these […]

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military
The Turkish Coup -- Real or Imagined?

The Turkish Coup — Real or Imagined?

Erdağ Göknar | (Duke Today) | – – Durham, NC – As if it were having a Cold War flashback, Turkey experienced a surprise coup […]

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Long Knives in Ankara: Victorious Erdogan begins Purge of Judiciary, Army

Long Knives in Ankara: Victorious Erdogan begins Purge of Judiciary, Army

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – – President Tayyip Erdogan is taking advantage of the failed coup against him to purge the judiciary and […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Palestinians rally for Erdogan, condemn Coup Attempt

Palestinians rally for Erdogan, condemn Coup Attempt

Ma’an News Agency | – – GAZA (Ma’an) — The Hamas movement organized several demonstrations in the besieged Gaza Strip Saturday morning, rejecting Friday night’s […]

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Climate Change
Why we're addicted to Fatal Oil, even when Costlier than Solar

Why we’re addicted to Fatal Oil, even when Costlier than Solar

By Michael T. Klare | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – Here’s the good news: wind power, solar power, and other renewable forms of energy […]

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Iraq
Iraq: As ISIL loses land, it is Terrorizing to provoke Sectarian Fighting

Iraq: As ISIL loses land, it is Terrorizing to provoke Sectarian Fighting

By Mustafa Habib | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | – – It is slowly becoming clear that the extremist Islamic State group is returning to its […]

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Authoritarianism
Turkish People Power foils attempted Coup

Turkish People Power foils attempted Coup

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The poorly planned junior officers’ coup in Turkey on Friday appears to have failed as I […]

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Nice, France, Attack:  A Gandhian Response to Serial Killers

Nice, France, Attack: A Gandhian Response to Serial Killers

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – French interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve has extended the French state of emergency, which suspends key civil […]

Juan Cole

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