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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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While Flint Was Being Poisoned, Gov.'s office sent State Workers Water Coolers

While Flint Was Being Poisoned, Gov.’s office sent State Workers Water Coolers

By Common Dreams staff | ( Commondreams.org) | – – Following release of new document and emails, Gov. Snyder told he must ‘explain to the […]

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Saudi Arabia
Will Yemen be the Graveyard of the new Saudi Empire?

Will Yemen be the Graveyard of the new Saudi Empire?

By Helen Lackner | ( OpenDemocracy) | – – Those deciding for war in March 2015 gave little thought to Yemeni realities, military, logistic, topographic, […]

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Iran Unleashed:  Rouhani's Triumphant European Tour

Iran Unleashed: Rouhani’s Triumphant European Tour

Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Virtually as soon as the Iran nuclear deal was finally approved by the UN Security Council, Iranian […]

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Far Right
Will Trump destroy the Republican Party, or Push it to Far Right?

Will Trump destroy the Republican Party, or Push it to Far Right?

By Liam Kennedy | (The Conversation) | – – When Richard Hofstadter described “a paranoid style in American politics” in 1964, he was referring to […]

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Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
Daesh/ ISIL making Play for Moderate Muslims, as GOP Candidates deny they Exist

Daesh/ ISIL making Play for Moderate Muslims, as GOP Candidates deny they Exist

By John Feffer | ( Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – While ISIS makes war on the world’s vast majority of “moderate Muslims,” hardliners […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Gaza speaks: This is what the decade-long Israeli siege has done to us

Gaza speaks: This is what the decade-long Israeli siege has done to us

By Ramzy Baroud | (Ma’an News Agency) | – – Whenever Mariam Aljamal’s children hear the sound of thunder at night, they wet their beds. […]

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Far Right
Bundy White Terrorists detained, one Killed in suicidal Shoot-out

Bundy White Terrorists detained, one Killed in suicidal Shoot-out

Contessa Brewer | (CBSN Video News Report) | – – “Ammon Bundy, the leader of an armed militia that occupied a national wildlife refuge in […]

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Why Israel's Netanyahu has no standing to accuse UN Sec. Ban of inciting Terrorism

Why Israel’s Netanyahu has no standing to accuse UN Sec. Ban of inciting Terrorism

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon spoke out this week in an address to the UN Security Council […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israel’s land grab undermines Palestinian statehood – and violates international law

Israel’s land grab undermines Palestinian statehood – and violates international law

By Amy Maguire | (The Conversation) | – – Israel is preparing to make its largest land seizure in the West Bank since August 2014. […]

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