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When even Saudi Arabia Jumps into Solar and Wind Power, You know Change is Here
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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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Climate Change
Ukraine Crisis Shows Urgency of Green Energy:  Russian Nat'l Gas Blackmail

Ukraine Crisis Shows Urgency of Green Energy: Russian Nat’l Gas Blackmail

(By Juan Cole) Hawks are complaining that Europe has been insufficiently belligerent in its response to Russian moves in the Crimea, blaming the declining military […]

Juan Cole

Barack Obama
Least Transparent Administration Ever:  A New Front in Obama's War on Whistleblowers

Least Transparent Administration Ever: A New Front in Obama’s War on Whistleblowers

(By Peter Van Buren) The Obama administration has just opened a new front in its ongoing war on whistleblowers. It’s taking its case against one man, […]

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Iraq
Kerry on Invading other Countries on a Trumped Up Pretext (Editorial Cartoon)

Kerry on Invading other Countries on a Trumped Up Pretext (Editorial Cartoon)

(By Paul Jamiol) courtesy Jamiol’s World

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Barack Obama
McCain’s Mind-Boggling Hypocrisy on Crimea at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee Conference

McCain’s Mind-Boggling Hypocrisy on Crimea at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee Conference

John Hickman, author of Selling Guantanamo, writes in a guest column for Informed Comment That the Crimean Crisis would be exploited by Republican Congressional leaders […]

Juan Cole

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Obama to Netanyahu:  Israel faces Int'l Sanctions over "Permanent Occupation of West Bank"

Obama to Netanyahu: Israel faces Int’l Sanctions over “Permanent Occupation of West Bank”

(By Juan Cole) Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s visit to Washington, D.C., this week was even more of a disaster for him than might have been […]

Juan Cole

Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs Workers Launch Strike to Protest Low Wages

Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs Workers Launch Strike to Protest Low Wages

Employees of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs have gone on a major strike protesting low wages and working conditions. Click here for the rest […]

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Libyan business confederation to be set up

Libyan business confederation to be set up

By Michel Cousins. Tripoli, 4 March 2014: Plans are in motion to set up an organisation as the voice of the Libya private sector. The […]

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Climate Change
Fracking Ban Momentum Builds On Both Sides Of The Atlantic

Fracking Ban Momentum Builds On Both Sides Of The Atlantic

Local communities that are pushing for a ban on fracking will get a helping hand from the British green energy company Ecotricity, which is launching a new short film this Thursday to boost public awareness about negative impacts of the unconventional…

Juan Cole

Human Rights
AI Calls for Int'l Sanctions on Israel over Systematic Violence against Civilians

AI Calls for Int’l Sanctions on Israel over Systematic Violence against Civilians

(By Sarah Lazare) Israeli forces are killing Palestinian civilians in the West Bank — including children — with "callous disregard for human life," enjoying near impunity […]

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