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Wind and Solar Provide 40% of Brazil’s Electricity for first time
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Wind and Solar Provide 40% of Brazil’s Electricity for first time

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – This month Brazil’s National Electric System Operator estimated that wind and solar are now producing nearly 40 percent of the […]

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Israel/Palestine: Microsoft Should Avoid Contributing to Rights Abuses

Israel/Palestine: Microsoft Should Avoid Contributing to Rights Abuses

10/11/2025 By Human Rights Watch

How Extreme Temperatures Strain Minds and Bodies: A Karachi Case Study

How Extreme Temperatures Strain Minds and Bodies: A Karachi Case Study

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Netanyahu’s Victory did us the favor of ending the Charade

Netanyahu’s Victory did us the favor of ending the Charade

By Yigal Bronner | (Informed Comment) – (Jerusalem) | The results of the Israeli elections are good for everybody. Good, because any remaining fog has […]

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Jim Crow in the Holy Land

Jim Crow in the Holy Land

By Phyllis Bennis | (Foreign Policy in Focus) – The last days of the campaign sounded an awful lot like the Jim Crow South, when […]

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Mideast Apocalypse 2030:  Why Obama wants the Palestine Issue Solved. Now.

Mideast Apocalypse 2030: Why Obama wants the Palestine Issue Solved. Now.

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – It began in Hebron, which Palestinians call “al-Khalil,” the city of Abraham. Hundreds of thousands of Israel squatters […]

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Climate Change
Climate Change:  Can the Insurance Industry be saved from Bankruptcy?

Climate Change: Can the Insurance Industry be saved from Bankruptcy?

Link TV | – “The reinsurance industry insures insurance companies to help reduce risk associated with underwritten policies. Insurance rates have risen in areas with […]

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Israel
Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories ‘must end’ – White House chief of staff

Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories ‘must end’ – White House chief of staff

RT | – US officials continue to maintain that American policy towards Israel will undergo changes in the wake of pre-election comments made by Prime […]

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Arab World
The Rise of ISIL & the Political Bankruptcy of Arab Politics in the Levant

The Rise of ISIL & the Political Bankruptcy of Arab Politics in the Levant

By Ali R. Abootalebi | (Informed Comment) The rise of the so called ‘the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (al-Sham)’ or the ISIL—the Daesh […]

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Economy
What exactly have the US & EU been doing to Iran's Economy?

What exactly have the US & EU been doing to Iran’s Economy?

By Luke Johnson | (RFE/RL) Iran has been targeted by a steady dose of economic and military sanctions over the past 35 years, resulting in […]

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All the Wars and Coups of President Ted Cruz

All the Wars and Coups of President Ted Cruz

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – Texas Senator Ted Cruz, one of three Cuban-Americans in the Senate, is throwing his hat into the ring […]

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Apartheid
Israeli control of their water a continuing threat to Palestinians: Report

Israeli control of their water a continuing threat to Palestinians: Report

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Palestinians are suffering from unfair distribution of water resources as Israel is consuming the vast majority of Palestinian water, Palestinian officials said […]

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