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

Juan Cole

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

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Uncle Sam's Making a List, Checking it Twice & You Might be on It

Uncle Sam’s Making a List, Checking it Twice & You Might be on It

By Hina Shamsi and Matthew Harwood (Tomdispatch.com) It began with an unexpected rapping on the front door. When Wiley Gill opened up, no one was […]

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al-Qaeda
Canada's Reaction to War Memorial Attack:  Can Multiculturalism Fight Terrorism?

Canada’s Reaction to War Memorial Attack: Can Multiculturalism Fight Terrorism?

By Allan Christelow On October 22, 2014 a lone gunman killed a guard at Canada’s War Memorial in Ottawa, then went on to attack the […]

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Why McCain & GOP are Slamming Obama for Writing Iran re: ISIL

Why McCain & GOP are Slamming Obama for Writing Iran re: ISIL

By Juan Cole President Obama wrote a letter to Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on the possibility of US-Iran non-military cooperation in defeating ISIL, as a […]

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Islam
Is the Qur'an Really Violent?  Not if you Read the whole Book!

Is the Qur’an Really Violent? Not if you Read the whole Book!

By Alexander Gaute (Your Middle East) “Analyses tend to misuse the references to the Qur’an, often only citing single verses” Following the advent of the […]

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Militarization
Will GOP Senate Hawks Deep-Six CIA Torture Report, push Ukraine Intervention?

Will GOP Senate Hawks Deep-Six CIA Torture Report, push Ukraine Intervention?

By Luke Johnson (RFE/RL) WASHINGTON — Republicans have captured control of the U.S. Senate for the first time in eight years, picking up at least […]

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Republican Party
If Orwell had had a "Ministry of Science" it would look Like GOP Science Committees

If Orwell had had a “Ministry of Science” it would look Like GOP Science Committees

Cenk Uygur, The Young Turks: “”The Republican Party is widely predicted to win control of the Senate as a result of today’s midterm elections. In […]

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Islam
Amid Jerusalem Clashes, Israeli Housing Minister Claims al-Aqsa Site,  Declaring War on 1.5 bn Muslims

Amid Jerusalem Clashes, Israeli Housing Minister Claims al-Aqsa Site, Declaring War on 1.5 bn Muslims

JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Dozens of Palestinians suffered tear-gas inhalation and several others were injured by stun grenades, shrapnel and rubber-coated steel bullets during clashes in […]

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Barack Obama
Top 5 Reasons Obama is Seeking Congressional Approval for War on ISIL

Top 5 Reasons Obama is Seeking Congressional Approval for War on ISIL

By Juan Cole President Obama said Wednesday that he would seek Congressional authorization for his war on ISIL or the “Islamic State” Group in Iraq […]

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Inequality
How Secret Millionaire Donors Bought the Midterms with Dark Money Superpacs

How Secret Millionaire Donors Bought the Midterms with Dark Money Superpacs

by Theodoric Meyer, ProPublica In the final weeks before this year’s elections, a super PAC called Key Questions, Key Answers started buying TV ads across […]

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