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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

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A Case for Nonviolent Resistance:  MAGA Men and Rage

A Case for Nonviolent Resistance: MAGA Men and Rage

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Top 6 Green Energy Good News Stories, November 2014

Top 6 Green Energy Good News Stories, November 2014

By Juan Cole 1. There has been a lot of reporting and angst over the possibility that India will turn to coal to electrify the […]

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Junta arrests Thai Protesters using 'Hunger Games' 3-finger Salute at Mockingjay Premiere

Junta arrests Thai Protesters using ‘Hunger Games’ 3-finger Salute at Mockingjay Premiere

TomoNews & The Telegraph | — [Taiwan Animators (TomoNews)] “I’m sure you remember this touching scene from ‘Hunger Games: Catching Fire’ where Katniss shows her […]

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An Israeli-Arab Spring?  1.6 mn Palestinian-Israelis are Marginalized, Angry and Defiant

An Israeli-Arab Spring? 1.6 mn Palestinian-Israelis are Marginalized, Angry and Defiant

By Emile Nakhleh | — WASHINGTON, Nov 20 2014 (IPS) – The recent killing of an Arab youth by the police in the Israeli Arab […]

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Climate Change
Climate Change already turning China Wetlands into Dust

Climate Change already turning China Wetlands into Dust

Euronews | — “Former wetlands in north-west China (Gansu province) have been sucked dry as the climate has changed. It is a stark warning that […]

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Right-Wing Media vs. Reagan On Immigration - How GOP lost the Script

Right-Wing Media vs. Reagan On Immigration – How GOP lost the Script

Media Matters 4 America | — Right-Wing Media vs. Reagan On Immigration mediamatters4america

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Two Different American Futures:  With an Iran Deal & Without

Two Different American Futures: With an Iran Deal & Without

By Charles Recknagel (RFE/ RL) As the six world powers and Tehran try to reach a deal in Vienna, there is more at stake than […]

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Top 5 Ways Obama Punked the GOP on Immigration; and the 2016 Campaign

Top 5 Ways Obama Punked the GOP on Immigration; and the 2016 Campaign

By Juan Cole | — The 2016 presidential election will be very different from the 2014 congressional midterms just held. In the off years, turnout […]

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Another Domino Falls:  Spanish Parliament votes to Recognize Palestine

Another Domino Falls: Spanish Parliament votes to Recognize Palestine

Euronews: “Spanish MPs have urged their government to recognise the Palestinian state. The a non-binding resolution presented by the socialists won the backing of all […]

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Iran
In Iran, US Choice is a Negotiated Peace Now or the Risk of War

In Iran, US Choice is a Negotiated Peace Now or the Risk of War

By Carlyn Meyer In 2012, Israeli PM Netanyahu stood before the UN General Assembly with a cartoon representation of an “Iranian bomb.” It was filled […]

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