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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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Weapons of the Wet:  ISIL/ Daesh Cuts water to Iraqi Towns south of Ramadi

Weapons of the Wet: ISIL/ Daesh Cuts water to Iraqi Towns south of Ramadi

Ben Wedeman | (CNN Video) | – – “Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) ISIS has closed off a dam to the north of the Iraqi city of […]

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Iraq needs another National Party:  Tariq Aziz's Baath Party Ruined the Country

Iraq needs another National Party: Tariq Aziz’s Baath Party Ruined the Country

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | — Tariq Aziz, the former deputy prime minister and former foreign minister of Iraq, is dead at 79. […]

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Democracy
Surprise!  Corporate Media declining to report on Big Money in Politics

Surprise! Corporate Media declining to report on Big Money in Politics

By Deirdre Fulton, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) | – – “Now more than ever before Americans deserve to know about the need for campaign finance […]

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Will the fight against ISIL Bankrupt the Iraqi Gov't?  Is it hemorrhaging hundreds of billions?

Will the fight against ISIL Bankrupt the Iraqi Gov’t? Is it hemorrhaging hundreds of billions?

By Ibrahim Saleh | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) It’s hard to get an accurate figure on how much Iraq’s fight against the Islamic State group has […]

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Displaced and Refugees
Yemen:  Saudi Airstrikes kill 58, including dozens of Women and Children

Yemen: Saudi Airstrikes kill 58, including dozens of Women and Children

RT | (Video report) — “Saudi-led coalition warplanes are continuing to pound Houthi targets in Yemen despite the rebels agreeing to UN-backed peace talks. The […]

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Will Turkey's Election end hopes for Turkish-Kurdish Rapprochement?

Will Turkey’s Election end hopes for Turkish-Kurdish Rapprochement?

By Mustafa Gurbuz | (Informed Comment) | – – Whatever the election outcome on Sunday, prospects for Kurdish Peace Process are grim. Yet, regardless whether […]

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Apartheid
The Wrath of Netanyahu:  What does Orange Telecom's departure from Israel really Mean for BDS?

The Wrath of Netanyahu: What does Orange Telecom’s departure from Israel really Mean for BDS?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Stephane Richard, the CEO of the French telecommunnications company Orange embroiled himself in an international incident […]

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Drone Warfare
The True Cost of America's Ongoing Wars:  Sebastian Junger, Spencer Ackerman et al.

The True Cost of America’s Ongoing Wars: Sebastian Junger, Spencer Ackerman et al.

Michael Moynihan, “The Business of Life” | VICE News Video | — “The AUMF (The “Authorization of the Use of Military Force”) was a bill […]

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Iran
The "Bomb Iran!" Lobby Gears Up for 2016

The “Bomb Iran!” Lobby Gears Up for 2016

By Sina Toossi | ( Foreign Policy in Focus) | – “A tight-knit group of neocon dead-enders is pushing Iran to the forefront of the […]

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