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India Plans 2.45 Gig Solar Park + 5 GWh Battery in Rajasthan, so why drag its Feet at COP30?
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India Plans 2.45 Gig Solar Park + 5 GWh Battery in Rajasthan, so why drag its Feet at COP30?

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even the right wing Hindu nationalist government of India has ambitious plans to transition to green energy

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Environment and health: a connection that remains unseen in the Climate Change Conferences

Environment and health: a connection that remains unseen in the Climate Change Conferences

11/22/2025 By The Conversation

Who is Ready to Die for Trump’s Gaza Plan? So Far, Nobody

Who is Ready to Die for Trump’s Gaza Plan? So Far, Nobody

11/22/2025 By Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

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Can Tony Blair Mess up Egypt even Worse?

Can Tony Blair Mess up Egypt even Worse?

By Juan Cole Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has agreed to advise the government of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Blair maintains that he […]

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Arab Spring
Juan's Interviews re: "The New Arabs," Majority Report, The World, Daily Beast

Juan’s Interviews re: “The New Arabs,” Majority Report, The World, Daily Beast

By Juan Cole Today is the anniversary of the overthrow of Muhammad Morsi in Egypt, one year ago. I have a detailed account of this […]

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Dissent
Not War on Poverty but War on the Poor:  Washington's Real Foreign Policy Aims

Not War on Poverty but War on the Poor: Washington’s Real Foreign Policy Aims

By Noam Chomsky via Tomdispatch The question of how foreign policy is determined is a crucial one in world affairs.  In these comments, I can […]

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Apartheid
Israel's search for missing settlers shines light on depth of the West Bank’s occupation

Israel’s search for missing settlers shines light on depth of the West Bank’s occupation

By: Ola al-Tamimi Ramallah – What does the occupied West Bank look like 47 years into the occupation? The Palestinian state was about to be […]

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Bill of Rights
Police: No Searching Journalists' Cellphones w/out a Warrant, Either (SCOTUS Decision)

Police: No Searching Journalists’ Cellphones w/out a Warrant, Either (SCOTUS Decision)

By Josh Stearns According to the Supreme Court, police need a warrant to search the cellphones of people they arrest. The unanimous decision, which was […]

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Syrian Opposition: Baghdadi "Caliphate" lame attempt to take Spotlight off his Crime Spree

Syrian Opposition: Baghdadi “Caliphate” lame attempt to take Spotlight off his Crime Spree

By Juan Cole Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s proclamation of himself as “caliph” is rather like the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan declaring himself the […]

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Bill of Rights
SCOTUS:  Corporate "Persons" have Religions, can Deny You Birth Control Coverage

SCOTUS: Corporate “Persons” have Religions, can Deny You Birth Control Coverage

By Mindy Fischer On Monday the Supreme Court handed down its ruling on the Hobby Lobby case. They ruled in a 5-4 decision that corporations […]

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Ruling Hindu Tea Party wants to "Develop" India for its 1%

Ruling Hindu Tea Party wants to “Develop” India for its 1%

By Gyanendra Pandey New Delhi Through the President’s address to Parliament on June 9, 2014, the newly elected Indian Government has officially outlined its short […]

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Human Rights
Uneasy Caliphate: Inside Hawija in Iraq

Uneasy Caliphate: Inside Hawija in Iraq

By Shalaw Mohammed | Hawija NIQASH visited Hawija, a large northern Iraqi town near Kirkuk, which is currently controlled by Sunni Muslim extremists and local […]

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