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Trump never saw a Wind Farm in China, but Beijing has half of all Installed Wind Capacity and will Eat America’s Lunch in this Industry
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Trump never saw a Wind Farm in China, but Beijing has half of all Installed Wind Capacity and will Eat America’s Lunch in this Industry

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The dufus-in-chief perorated on Friday once again on wind power, complaining that the components are made in China but that […]

The Gaza Genocide is still far from being condemned in the West’s Rhetoric

The Gaza Genocide is still far from being condemned in the West’s Rhetoric

07/05/2025 By Ramona Wadi

Comics and Graphic Novels can empower Refugees to tell their Stories on their own Terms

Comics and Graphic Novels can empower Refugees to tell their Stories on their own Terms

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The Danger Of Dictatorship: How To Replace Iraq’s Flawed Political System?

The Danger Of Dictatorship: How To Replace Iraq’s Flawed Political System?

By Mustafa Habib | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | – – Iraq’s Parliament has failed its people. This was the message from protestors last week. But […]

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Buddhism
Left For Dead: Myanmar’s Muslim Minority

Left For Dead: Myanmar’s Muslim Minority

VICE News | (Video report) | – – “In recent years, democratic reforms have swept through Myanmar, a country that for decades was ruled by […]

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Development
Surprise!  Despite Syria-Iraq Turmoil, Major Mideast Economies growing 3-4%

Surprise! Despite Syria-Iraq Turmoil, Major Mideast Economies growing 3-4%

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – When you only hear bad news from a place, you form a negative opinion of it. […]

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Colonialism
100th Anniversary:  What did the Sykes-Picot Agreement mean for the Middle East?

100th Anniversary: What did the Sykes-Picot Agreement mean for the Middle East?

By Stephen Pascoe | (The Conversation) | – – To mark the 100th anniversary of the Sykes-Picot Agreement, we’ve got a package with an explanatory […]

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Drone Warfare
Surges, Mission Creeps & Drones in the Mideast: America's Forever War

Surges, Mission Creeps & Drones in the Mideast: America’s Forever War

By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – There are the news stories that genuinely surprise you, and then there are the ones […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Annual ‘March of Return’ draws thousands of Palestinians to the Negev

Annual ‘March of Return’ draws thousands of Palestinians to the Negev

Ma’an News Agency | – – NEGEV (Ma’an) — Thousands of Palestinians participated in the annual ‘March of Return’ on Thursday afternoon near Bedouin towns […]

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Featured
Baghdad gov't paralysis made capital vulnerable to massive ISIL bombings

Baghdad gov’t paralysis made capital vulnerable to massive ISIL bombings

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Daesh (ISIL, ISIS) launched a series of suicide car and truck bombs in Baghdad on Wednesday, […]

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Employment
Aside from Super-Rich, All Americans are poorer this century

Aside from Super-Rich, All Americans are poorer this century

TeleSur | – – Soon, researchers predict, the middle class will no longer be the largest class in the United States. Households in the United […]

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Islam-hatred
Sadiq Khan and the End of Islamophobia

Sadiq Khan and the End of Islamophobia

By John Feffer | ( Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – The victory of Sadiq Khan has "normalized" Muslims in UK politics in much […]

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