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The Most American King: Interview  on Jordan with Aaron Magid
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The Most American King: Interview on Jordan with Aaron Magid

Marc Martorell Junyent

Interview with Aaron Magid, author of “The Most American King: Abdullah of Jordan” – “King Abdullah is likely more beloved in Washington than inside Jordan” […]

Women, Key Players in Syria’s Revolution, are being Marginalized

Women, Key Players in Syria’s Revolution, are being Marginalized

07/16/2025 By The Conversation

Trump’s Terrorism against the Planet

Trump’s Terrorism against the Planet

07/16/2025 By Tom Engelhardt

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History
Mussolini buys Crowds during visit to Libya (1937) - Historical Video of the Day

Mussolini buys Crowds during visit to Libya (1937) – Historical Video of the Day

Italy ruled Libya from 1911 until midway through WW II, with the fascist years being especially harsh. This newsreel gives a sense of how the […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
Global Solar Power generation Increased by 1/3 In 2013 Alone (with Charts)

Global Solar Power generation Increased by 1/3 In 2013 Alone (with Charts)

With about 37,007 megawatts (MW) of solar PV power installed in 2013, world solar PV power capacity increased about 35% to 136,697 MW. Whereas Europe had dominated annual growth for years up until 2013 (10 years, to be precise), solar PV growth was…

Juan Cole

Domestic Terrorism
US Press once again Declines to Call White Terrorism in Kansas, Nevada, White Terrorism

US Press once again Declines to Call White Terrorism in Kansas, Nevada, White Terrorism

(By Juan Cole) My Top Ten differences between White Terrorists and Others, judging by the Facebook shares, must be among the more popular pieces I […]

Juan Cole

Economy
8 Plutocrats out-earned 3.6 mn Working Poor & 7 Other Headlines You won't see in MSM

8 Plutocrats out-earned 3.6 mn Working Poor & 7 Other Headlines You won’t see in MSM

(By Paul Buchheit) The following are all relevant, fact-based issues, the "hard news" stories that the media has a responsibility to report. But the business-oriented […]

Juan Cole

Bill of Rights
Christian Sharia Law: Iowa Governor’s Proclamation Destroys Separation Of Church And State

Christian Sharia Law: Iowa Governor’s Proclamation Destroys Separation Of Church And State

  The astroturfed pandemic of Christian self-righteousness continues to plumb new depths, proving that like their Bible, there isn’t a part of the Constitution they won’t ignore, twist, or warp, in an effort to shore up their abjectly amoral personal…

Juan Cole

Barack Obama
Uncle Sam's Eternal Gua-Gulag:  US Continues to Imprison Dozens of Yemenis Cleared or Never Charged

Uncle Sam’s Eternal Gua-Gulag: US Continues to Imprison Dozens of Yemenis Cleared or Never Charged

(Human Rights Watch) (Washington, DC) – The US should expedite the return of Yemeni detainees cleared for release from Guantanamo Bay, Human Rights Watch said […]

Juan Cole

Africa
25 Maps That Will Change The Way You See The World

25 Maps That Will Change The Way You See The World

25 Maps That Will Change The Way You See The World

Juan Cole

CIA
US sent CIA Director as Ambassador to Tehran after CIA overthrew Iran's Democratic gov't  (US now Complaining about Hostage-Taker Amb.)

US sent CIA Director as Ambassador to Tehran after CIA overthrew Iran’s Democratic gov’t (US now Complaining about Hostage-Taker Amb.)

The decision of the Obama administration and the resolution passed by Congress barring entry to Iran’s designated ambassador to the United Nations has angered Tehran […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
Using Ukraine as a Pretext for more Climate Disruption (Naomi Klein)

Using Ukraine as a Pretext for more Climate Disruption (Naomi Klein)

(By Naomi Klein) Published in The Guardian The way to beat Vladimir Putin is to flood the European market with fracked-in-the-USA natural gas, or so […]

Juan Cole

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