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California: Fossil Gas use Declining, replaced by Solar Plus Megabatteries
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California: Fossil Gas use Declining, replaced by Solar Plus Megabatteries

Juan Cole

Two-thirds of California’s electricity retail sales are now generated by renewables.

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From Sykes-Picot to Silicon Valley: Why Middle East Fault Lines now run through American Tech

From Sykes-Picot to Silicon Valley: Why Middle East Fault Lines now run through American Tech

12/19/2025 By Jasim Al-Azzawi

“We cannot Negotiate with the Melting Point of Ice:” World’s Ice Sheets shed 640 bn. Tons in 12 Months

“We cannot Negotiate with the Melting Point of Ice:” World’s Ice Sheets shed 640 bn. Tons in 12 Months

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Hillary Clinton kicks off Campaign in NYC:  Says Heir to FDR pro-Middle Class Policies (Full video)

Hillary Clinton kicks off Campaign in NYC: Says Heir to FDR pro-Middle Class Policies (Full video)

NewsGoingViral | (Full Video) | – – Hillary Clinton kicks off campaign at Roosevelt Island, New York City. Positions self as heir of New Deal, […]

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How the Jurassic Park Franchise changed the real world of ancient DNA Research

How the Jurassic Park Franchise changed the real world of ancient DNA Research

By Elizabeth Jones | (The Conversation) | – – The park is almost open. Two decades on and Jurassic Park has morphed into Jurassic World, […]

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Climate Change
Wind Power rapidly bringing Clean Electricity to masses in Global South

Wind Power rapidly bringing Clean Electricity to masses in Global South

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Google is in talks to invest in Kenya’s enormous Lake Turkana Wind Power Project, which will […]

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Barack Obama
House Deals Major Blow to Obama's Secret Asian Trade Agenda

House Deals Major Blow to Obama’s Secret Asian Trade Agenda

By Maira Sutton | (Electronic Frontier Foundation) | – – The Senate’s Fast Track bill package failed in the House today, following a landslide vote […]

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Children
Yemen: Caught between Saudis & Houthis, Children Pay Price of War

Yemen: Caught between Saudis & Houthis, Children Pay Price of War

By Belkis Wille | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – The deliberate targeting of schools has become a flashpoint in the war between Yemen’s […]

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Acidification of Oceans
World's Richest Nations at G7 Imperil Earth by Slow CO2 Reductions

World’s Richest Nations at G7 Imperil Earth by Slow CO2 Reductions

By Lucy Cadena | (Inter Press Service) | – LONDON (IPS) – One of the promises made by the leaders of the world’s seven richest […]

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Dissent
Tens of thousands participate in Israel's annual gay pride Parade

Tens of thousands participate in Israel’s annual gay pride Parade

AFP | (Video Report) | – – “Tens of thousands of people turned out on Friday for Israel’s annual Gay Pride parade, dancing in the […]

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Druze
Al-Qaeda in Syria rubs out 23 members of Druze Religious Minority, Persecutes Others

Al-Qaeda in Syria rubs out 23 members of Druze Religious Minority, Persecutes Others

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The al-Qaeda-linked Support Front has murdered 23 men from a single Druze clan in Qalb Lawzah, […]

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Climate Change
Pharrell Williams to G7:  Green Energy is a Jobs Issue for unemployed Youth

Pharrell Williams to G7: Green Energy is a Jobs Issue for unemployed Youth

Pharrell Williams | (The Guardian Video) | – – “Pharrell WIlliams, the Grammy award-winning artist makes an impassioned plea for green jobs to be put […]

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