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Global Solar skyrockets 64% in H1, as Trump SecEnergy Wright gets Schooled
Climate Crisis

Global Solar skyrockets 64% in H1, as Trump SecEnergy Wright gets Schooled

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Ember energy consultancy reports that in the first half of 2025, the world put in 380 gigawatts of new […]

“But come with old Khayyam and leave the Lot,” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:9

“But come with old Khayyam and leave the Lot,” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:9

09/04/2025 By Juan Cole

The full Seizure of Gaza: A Path toward Isolation and Collapse

The full Seizure of Gaza: A Path toward Isolation and Collapse

09/04/2025 By Middle East Monitor

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Gaza’s “Walking Corpses:” Jewish Law does not Permit ignoring Atrocities

Gaza’s “Walking Corpses:” Jewish Law does not Permit ignoring Atrocities

Silver Spring, Md. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Jewish law does not permit us to look away when atrocities are being committed. It is […]

Shamai Leibowitz

Israel/ Palestine
The quiet War: What’s fueling Israel’s Surge of settler Violence – and the Lack of State Response

The quiet War: What’s fueling Israel’s Surge of settler Violence – and the Lack of State Response

By Arie Perliger, UMass Lowell Since Oct. 7, 2023, as Israel’s war against Hamas drags on in the Gaza Strip, a quieter but escalating war […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
The “D” in Donald is for “Decline” — of America

The “D” in Donald is for “Decline” — of America

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Once upon a time, nothing in this world could have convinced me that I would be living through this moment in […]

Tom Engelhardt

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How the Palestinian West Bank is being Annexed by Israel, with Tacit US Support

How the Palestinian West Bank is being Annexed by Israel, with Tacit US Support

Behind the fog of war and the obliteration of Gaza, Israel’s far-right cabinet has escalated the annexation of the West Bank to Israel. New York […]

Dan Steinbock

Israel/ Palestine
Do Palestinians deserve a State only if they are Genocided?

Do Palestinians deserve a State only if they are Genocided?

Voices around the world are saying: it’s now or never for a Palestinian state. ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – Most Israelis are too […]

John Feffer

Climate Crisis
Trump may be Abandoning Climate Fight, but New Leaders, including China, are Emerging

Trump may be Abandoning Climate Fight, but New Leaders, including China, are Emerging

By Shannon Gibson, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences (The Conversation) – When President Donald Trump announced in early 2025 that he was […]

The Conversation

Genocide
US Green Beret: Israeli “Hunger Games in Gaza” (h/t Sen. Chris Van Hollen)

US Green Beret: Israeli “Hunger Games in Gaza” (h/t Sen. Chris Van Hollen)

Senator Chris Van Hollen interviews Anthony Aguilar, former Green Beret and former contractor in Gaza, on what Aguilar witnessed there. Warning: Graphic language, Images. Transcript: […]

Juan Cole

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It is Genocide:  Omer Bartov Interview

It is Genocide: Omer Bartov Interview

Newark, Del. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Fariba Amini writes: Omer Bartov recently wrote an Op-ed piece in the New York Times in which […]

Fariba Amini

Donald Trump
Tariff Man: Bringing back the Worst Excesses of the Gilded Age

Tariff Man: Bringing back the Worst Excesses of the Gilded Age

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Count on one thing: if Mark Twain, the famed American author of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, were alive today, he […]

Alfred W. McCoy

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