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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

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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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Has US started Arming Iraq's Shiite Militias against ISIL/ Daesh?

Has US started Arming Iraq’s Shiite Militias against ISIL/ Daesh?

Mustafa Habib | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) The hostility between the US and Iraq’s Shiite militias seems to have slowed. One leading militia member even went […]

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Apartheid
Expelled for Life:   A Palestinian Family’s Struggle to Stay on Their Land

Expelled for Life: A Palestinian Family’s Struggle to Stay on Their Land

By Jen Marlowe | (Tomdispatch.com) Nasser Nawaj’ah held Laith’s hand as, beside me, they walked down the dirt and pebble path of Old Susya. Nasser […]

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Apartheid
Since 1967: 95,000 Palestinian Children Incarcerated by Israel

Since 1967: 95,000 Palestinian Children Incarcerated by Israel

By IMEMC News | – – A human rights group submitted, on Wednesday, a report to UN about Israeli torture and mistreatment of Palestinian children. […]

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Has ISIL/ Daesh killed 50,000 in one Year?  Iraq's Horrors by the Numbers

Has ISIL/ Daesh killed 50,000 in one Year? Iraq’s Horrors by the Numbers

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Human Rights Commission of Iraq, a body attached to the Iraqi parliament, issued statistics on […]

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Human Rights
A Year after the Fall of Mosul, Yazidi Kurdish Survivors of ISIL Massacres Struggle On

A Year after the Fall of Mosul, Yazidi Kurdish Survivors of ISIL Massacres Struggle On

VICE News | (Video Report) | – – “A year after the Islamic State’s lightning conquest of Iraq’s second-largest city of Mosul, the poorly-trained and […]

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Iran
Saudi Arabia Fixated on Iran When Sunni Extremists Are Real Threat

Saudi Arabia Fixated on Iran When Sunni Extremists Are Real Threat

By Russ Wellen | ( Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – “Saudi Arabia’s perceived need to keep Iran at bay is distracting it from […]

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Arab Spring
ISIL and the Middle East Generational Shift (with Juan Cole)

ISIL and the Middle East Generational Shift (with Juan Cole)

Elliot Hill | (The LipTV Video) | – – “With ISIS rampaging through Syria and Iraq, and a generational shift in politics and religion happening […]

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Acidification of Oceans
How each State in the Union can have 100% Green Energy by 2050:  The Stanford Plan

How each State in the Union can have 100% Green Energy by 2050: The Stanford Plan

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Barack Obama
Modest Increase in Iraq Training Mission shows Obama still Uninterested & Maybe he's Right

Modest Increase in Iraq Training Mission shows Obama still Uninterested & Maybe he’s Right

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – The Obama administration got itself some headlines on Wednesday morning by pledging to send a few hundred […]

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