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For First time in History, Renewables Overtook Coal in Global Electricity Production in H1

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Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Ember energy analysis firm has released its global electricity report for the first half of 2025, and it contains […]

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Israel/Palestine: States Should Act to Halt Atrocities

Israel/Palestine: States Should Act to Halt Atrocities

10/08/2025 By Human Rights Watch

A Case for Nonviolent Resistance:  MAGA Men and Rage

A Case for Nonviolent Resistance: MAGA Men and Rage

10/08/2025 By Andrea Mazzarino

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How Public Power can get Big Money out of Politics & Defeat Plutocrats

How Public Power can get Big Money out of Politics & Defeat Plutocrats

Bill Moyers | — Bill Moyers: “How Public Power Can Defeat Plutocrats” via BillMoyers.com “Government has become a clearinghouse for corporations and plutocrats with deep […]

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Iran
Will GOP Congress block an Obama Iran Nuclear Deal?

Will GOP Congress block an Obama Iran Nuclear Deal?

By Carl Schreck and Luke Johnson (RFE/RL) | —- WASHINGTON — With the deadline for an agreement on Iran’s nuclear program looming, the administration of […]

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Islam
Jerusalem: where religion divides but lives are entwined

Jerusalem: where religion divides but lives are entwined

By Wendy Pullan, University of Cambridge (The Conversation) The latest violent episode between Palestinians and Israelis has prompted Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to assert […]

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Domestic Surveillance
Snowden Docs.:  UK Telecom Conspired to Turn over millions of our Emails to British Intelligence

Snowden Docs.: UK Telecom Conspired to Turn over millions of our Emails to British Intelligence

Channel 4 News | — “An unprecedented grab of personal data: this programme reveals that a communications firm not only handed over its own information […]

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Barack Obama
Taiwan Animators wonder if anyone paid attention to Obama Immigration Speech

Taiwan Animators wonder if anyone paid attention to Obama Immigration Speech

Tomo News: Tomo News: “Obama announces immigration reform, America forgets to watch”

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Iraq:  Daesh/ISIL executes 26 Sunni Tribesmen in Campaign to Take Ramadi

Iraq: Daesh/ISIL executes 26 Sunni Tribesmen in Campaign to Take Ramadi

By Juan Cole: Daesh (the Arabic acronym for ISIS or ISIL) has mounted a major offensive in a bid to take Ramadi, the capital of […]

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Iran
"Iran too big a fish for Israel to fry" - Former IAEA Head Hans Blix on Nuclear Talks

“Iran too big a fish for Israel to fry” – Former IAEA Head Hans Blix on Nuclear Talks

RT | — “The latest negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program are entering their final days – the deadline set for November 24. Officials say there […]

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Colonialism
Israeli Occupation forces wound dozens of Palestinian Protesters across West Bank

Israeli Occupation forces wound dozens of Palestinian Protesters across West Bank

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces opened fire and injured dozens of Palestinians across the West Bank on Friday, as hundreds marched in a number of […]

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Climate Change
South Dakota Native Tribe: Keystone XL an “act of war”

South Dakota Native Tribe: Keystone XL an “act of war”

RT | —- “The Rosebud Sioux Tribe of South Dakota says that congressional approval of the Keystone XL oil pipeline will be considered an act […]

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