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For First time in History, Renewables Overtook Coal in Global Electricity Production in H1
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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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Urgent Next Steps for Palestine at the UN, Regardless of the Trump Plan

Urgent Next Steps for Palestine at the UN, Regardless of the Trump Plan

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Forced to Work on an Overheating Planet

Forced to Work on an Overheating Planet

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Iraq:  Grand Ayatollah Sistani joins Hagel in calling for Arming Sunni Tribes of al-Anbar

Iraq: Grand Ayatollah Sistani joins Hagel in calling for Arming Sunni Tribes of al-Anbar

By Juan Cole Al-Zaman (The Times of Baghdad reports that Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistan is calling, just as is US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, […]

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Halloween Poetry:   W. B. Yeats,  "All Souls' Night"

Halloween Poetry: W. B. Yeats, “All Souls’ Night”

All Souls’ Night By W.B. Yeats Midnight has come and the great Christ Church bell And many a lesser bell sound through the room; And […]

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Israel
Unprecedented Damage to Gaza & its People can't be repaired with Just more Aid

Unprecedented Damage to Gaza & its People can’t be repaired with Just more Aid

By Sara Roy, Harvard University In the near three decades that I have been involved with Gaza and her people, I have never seen the […]

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Apartheid
"Pilot Program" of Segregated Buses banning Palestinians in Israel

“Pilot Program” of Segregated Buses banning Palestinians in Israel

AJ+ “The defense minister [Moshe Ya’alon] … hasn’t issued a blanket ban but believes integrated buses are “a recipe for a terror attack.” So he’s […]

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Afghanistan
Afghanistan's Women: After 13 Years of War, the Rule of Men, Not Law

Afghanistan’s Women: After 13 Years of War, the Rule of Men, Not Law

By Ann Jones via Tomdispatch.com On September 29th, power in Afghanistan changed hands for the first time in 13 years. At the Arg, the presidential […]

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Far Right Extremist Avigdor Lieberman says Swedish Recognition of Palestine will Strengthen Extremists

Far Right Extremist Avigdor Lieberman says Swedish Recognition of Palestine will Strengthen Extremists

By Juan Cole There was a time when people like Avigdor Lieberman were not welcome in Israeli politics, or, indeed, in Jewish circles in the […]

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Israel
This day in History:  Madrid Arab-Israeli Peace Conference (a Process that Netanyahu later Boasted of Derailing)

This day in History: Madrid Arab-Israeli Peace Conference (a Process that Netanyahu later Boasted of Derailing)

The Madrid peace conference convened October 30, 1991, hosted by President George H. W. Bush and Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev, aimed at initiating a peace […]

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Islam
Jerusalem tensions over al-Aqsa Mosque turn bloody as Far Right-winger is Shot

Jerusalem tensions over al-Aqsa Mosque turn bloody as Far Right-winger is Shot

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Right-wing Jewish activist Yehuda Glick was shot and injured at a rally in Jerusalem on Wednesday evening, Israeli police and medical sources […]

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Constitution
GOP Voter Suppression:  Comedian Louis Black says F#%! it!

GOP Voter Suppression: Comedian Louis Black says F#%! it!

ACLU “At a photo shoot with ACLU’s Voting Rights Project Director Dale Ho, ACLU voting rights ambassador Lewis Black gets so f#%!in’ tired of politicians […]

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