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For First time in History, Renewables Overtook Coal in Global Electricity Production in H1

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Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Ember energy analysis firm has released its global electricity report for the first half of 2025, and it contains […]

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Israel/Palestine: States Should Act to Halt Atrocities

Israel/Palestine: States Should Act to Halt Atrocities

10/08/2025 By Human Rights Watch

A Case for Nonviolent Resistance:  MAGA Men and Rage

A Case for Nonviolent Resistance: MAGA Men and Rage

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Did Jeb Bush's brother "Create ISIL" in Iraq?

Did Jeb Bush’s brother “Create ISIL” in Iraq?

by Brian Glyn Williams It was one of those moments that politicians dread. An unscripted incident last month when a voice in a crowd pinned […]

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Democracy
Turkey:  How Pres. Erdogan damaged the AKP Brand

Turkey: How Pres. Erdogan damaged the AKP Brand

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Justice and Development Party (AKP) decisively lost its majority on Sunday, falling to only about […]

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US view of Iraqi Army, before & after 2003  (Political Cartoon)

US view of Iraqi Army, before & after 2003 (Political Cartoon)

By Khalid Bendib | (Otherwords.org) | (Political Cartoon) Via Otherwords.org

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Climate Change
At 450, Florida's St. Augustine Faces Rising Waters of Manmade Climate Change as Governor Fiddles

At 450, Florida’s St. Augustine Faces Rising Waters of Manmade Climate Change as Governor Fiddles

Aljazeera America | (Video) “St. Augustine is one of the many cities seeing this alarming trend and fears that they may one day be submerged”

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Fighting for Privacy, Two Years After Snowden

Fighting for Privacy, Two Years After Snowden

By Richard Esguerra | (Electronic Frontier Foundation) | – – Two years ago today, Glenn Greenwald published in the Guardian a single document confirming a […]

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Apartheid
UN Special Rapporteur: Israel Must Abandon Plans to Relocate Bedouin

UN Special Rapporteur: Israel Must Abandon Plans to Relocate Bedouin

IMEMC | – – United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur Makarim Wibisono, today, repeated his call for the Israeli occupation to abandon its plans for the […]

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Climate Change
Green Energy Surging and you'll never Guess Why

Green Energy Surging and you’ll never Guess Why

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | — The adoption of wind and solar for electricity generation around the world is happening at a growing […]

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Apartheid
Israeli forces suppress protest over fraudulent purchase of West Bank church

Israeli forces suppress protest over fraudulent purchase of West Bank church

HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli forces on Saturday suppressed a march protesting the recent purchase by Israeli setters of a church compound in the southern West […]

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Democracy
A Turkish Syriza?  A radical democratic party and the new politics of the Mideast

A Turkish Syriza? A radical democratic party and the new politics of the Mideast

By Omer Tekdemir | ( Your Middle East) Dr Omer Tekdemir analyzes a radical force in Turkish politics, which strives to protect democracy and represent […]

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