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When even Saudi Arabia Jumps into Solar and Wind Power, You know Change is Here
Climate Crisis

When even Saudi Arabia Jumps into Solar and Wind Power, You know Change is Here

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Saudi Arabia’s massive oil deposits and its 9.53 million barrels per day (bpd) of petroleum production make it an enormous […]

How Europe is managing Guilt over Gaza: The Politics of moral Cleansing

How Europe is managing Guilt over Gaza: The Politics of moral Cleansing

08/25/2025 By Global Voices

Trump Junk: Won’t Enforce Rules for Short-Term Junk Health Insurance Plans

Trump Junk: Won’t Enforce Rules for Short-Term Junk Health Insurance Plans

08/25/2025 By F. Douglas Stephenson

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Israel/ Palestine
Those Air-Dropping Food Cannot also be Airdropping Missiles

Those Air-Dropping Food Cannot also be Airdropping Missiles

by By Sabri Saidam ( Middle East Monitor ) – What a mad world humanity lives in, where we see the US dropping missiles and […]

Middle East Monitor

Health Care
The Failing Battle for Healthcare in the Dis-United States

The Failing Battle for Healthcare in the Dis-United States

( Tomdispatch.com ) – The slang definition of “unwinding” means “to chill.” Other definitions include: to relax, disentangle, undo — all words that, on the […]

Liz Theoharis

Books
Dune Part Two: The Islamic Dimension

Dune Part Two: The Islamic Dimension

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Journalist and science fiction writer Frank Herbert’s Dune epic has many themes. One is, clearly, environmentalism and the need for […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Gaza Aid and the West: An Honorable Way out of Complicity in Genocide Does not Exist

Gaza Aid and the West: An Honorable Way out of Complicity in Genocide Does not Exist

by Ramona Wadi ( Middle East Monitor ) – Canada is considering the resumption of funding the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
Climate Crisis and Mass Extinction: Can Archeology tell us Which types of Species are most at Risk?

Climate Crisis and Mass Extinction: Can Archeology tell us Which types of Species are most at Risk?

By Erin Saupe, University of Oxford and Cooper Malanoski, University of Oxford | – (The Conversation) – Many experts believe we may soon face a […]

The Conversation

Agriculture
America's Red Snow: Hottest Winter on Record, Largest Wildfires in Texas History

America’s Red Snow: Hottest Winter on Record, Largest Wildfires in Texas History

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency announced Friday that the winter of 2023-24 was the hottest on record in U.S. […]

Juan Cole

Food Insecurity
Joe Biden's Gaza Aid Pier isn't Enough: 6 More Things that Must be Done

Joe Biden’s Gaza Aid Pier isn’t Enough: 6 More Things that Must be Done

By Sarah Schiffling, Hanken School of Economics and Foteini Stavropoulou, Liverpool John Moores University | – (The Conversation) – In his State of the Union […]

The Conversation

journalism
Is there a Journalism that doesn't love a War?

Is there a Journalism that doesn’t love a War?

By Nan Levinson ( Tomdispatch.com ) – War, what is it good for? Well, the media for starters. Shortly after the Biden administration responded to the […]

Tomdispatch

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A Tale of two Femicides: Remembering Victims in Iraq and Italy on Int'l Women's Day

A Tale of two Femicides: Remembering Victims in Iraq and Italy on Int’l Women’s Day

San Marco, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – In early February 2023 a 22-year-old Iraqi YouTube star, Tiba Al-Ali was strangled by her father […]

Ibrahim Al-Marashi

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Iran

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Netanyahu far outscores Putin and George W. Bush in Killing innocent Civilians, at 83% of the Dead

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How Musk / DOGE falsely accused an Afghan Refugee and Ruined his and his Family’s Lives

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