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Wind and Solar Provide 40% of Brazil’s Electricity for first time
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Wind and Solar Provide 40% of Brazil’s Electricity for first time

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – This month Brazil’s National Electric System Operator estimated that wind and solar are now producing nearly 40 percent of the […]

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Israel/Palestine: Microsoft Should Avoid Contributing to Rights Abuses

Israel/Palestine: Microsoft Should Avoid Contributing to Rights Abuses

10/11/2025 By Human Rights Watch

How Extreme Temperatures Strain Minds and Bodies: A Karachi Case Study

How Extreme Temperatures Strain Minds and Bodies: A Karachi Case Study

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Gaza: 100,000 Palestinians Left Homeless, Fear unexploded Bombs in Rubble

Gaza: 100,000 Palestinians Left Homeless, Fear unexploded Bombs in Rubble

GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — UNRWA researchers and engineers will begin evaluation and assessment of damages to the homes of the displaced across the Gaza Strip […]

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Colonialism
In 1948, Jewish Forces in Palestine outnumbered Palestinian and Arab Fighters

In 1948, Jewish Forces in Palestine outnumbered Palestinian and Arab Fighters

By William R. Polk The General Assembly had issued its verdict [in late 1947 suggesting a partition of Palestine] but it left open the question […]

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Bashar al-Assad
Would a US/ NATO war in Syria be Legal in International Law?

Would a US/ NATO war in Syria be Legal in International Law?

By Juan Cole Efforts are being made in Congress give to President Barack Obama the formal authority to conduct air strikes in Syria against ISIL. […]

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Bahrain
US, UK look other Way as Bahrain Imprisons Dissidents (Maryam al-Khwaja is Latest)

US, UK look other Way as Bahrain Imprisons Dissidents (Maryam al-Khwaja is Latest)

By Nicholas McGeehan via Human Rights Watch Follow @Ncgeehan Many Bahraini activists have borne the brunt of their government’s unjust laws, unfair convictions and unlawful […]

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Climate Change
Leonardo DiCaprio Ice Bucket Challenge: Calls out Canadian PM Harper, Shell CEO on Tar Sands

Leonardo DiCaprio Ice Bucket Challenge: Calls out Canadian PM Harper, Shell CEO on Tar Sands

Via The Tree Actor Leonardo DiCaprio accepted the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge this week and used the opportunity to not just raise awareness for ALS, […]

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Israel
Israel's blockade on civilians of Gaza - no signs of loosening

Israel’s blockade on civilians of Gaza – no signs of loosening

(IRIN) NGOs are eager to increase aid to the Palestinian region after a 50-day Israeli bombing campaign left over 2,000 dead, thousands wounded and much […]

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Bill of Rights
What the Hackers did to Celebs?  The NSA has been Doing that to All of US instead of Predicting ISIL

What the Hackers did to Celebs? The NSA has been Doing that to All of US instead of Predicting ISIL

By Juan Cole There has been a lot of justifiable outrage about the invasion of privacy of celebrities and the posting of their private, nude […]

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Counter-Terrorism
Iraq Flashpoint:  Can the Kurds defend themselves from ISIL?

Iraq Flashpoint: Can the Kurds defend themselves from ISIL?

By Verena Gruber, Talalward, Kurdistan (Special to Informed Comment) There is something incredibly odd about seeing the black flag of the so-called “Islamic State of […]

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Climate Change
Solar could make your Electricity Bill Zero: But Pols, Utilities are Conspiring Against You

Solar could make your Electricity Bill Zero: But Pols, Utilities are Conspiring Against You

TheLipTV: “Solar panels are being denied to certain states as utilities companies and politicians are looking out for their own interests in an effort to […]

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