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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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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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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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Climate Change
Global Warming:  G7's Coal Plants are Weapons of Mass Destruction aimed at World's Poor

Global Warming: G7’s Coal Plants are Weapons of Mass Destruction aimed at World’s Poor

By Sean Buchanan | (Inter Press Service) | – – LONDON, Jun 6 2015 (IPS) – As heads of state and government of the G7 […]

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