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Global Solar skyrockets 64% in H1, as Trump SecEnergy Wright gets Schooled
Climate Crisis

Global Solar skyrockets 64% in H1, as Trump SecEnergy Wright gets Schooled

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Ember energy consultancy reports that in the first half of 2025, the world put in 380 gigawatts of new […]

“But come with old Khayyam and leave the Lot,” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:9

“But come with old Khayyam and leave the Lot,” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:9

09/04/2025 By Juan Cole

The full Seizure of Gaza: A Path toward Isolation and Collapse

The full Seizure of Gaza: A Path toward Isolation and Collapse

09/04/2025 By Middle East Monitor

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Human Rights
Descent into Bigotry: 21st Century Americans increasingly negative toward Muslims, Minorities

Descent into Bigotry: 21st Century Americans increasingly negative toward Muslims, Minorities

(By Charles Kurzman via IslamiCommentary) Islamic terrorism has proved to be a relatively small threat to public safety in America since 9/11. Isolated individuals have […]

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Climate Change
More Solar Workers in US than Coal Miners, and Solar doesn't Poison Drinking Water

More Solar Workers in US than Coal Miners, and Solar doesn’t Poison Drinking Water

(By Juan Cole) By the end of 2013, the number of workers in the solar energy industry in the US had grown to 143,000. About […]

Juan Cole

Africa
CAR Muslims Risk Ethnic Cleansing:  What if Thousands of Christians were forced out of a Muslim Country?

CAR Muslims Risk Ethnic Cleansing: What if Thousands of Christians were forced out of a Muslim Country?

(By Juan Cole) The Central African Republic has a population of 4.5 million, about 15 percent of them Muslim, or about 670,000 people. Those Muslims […]

Juan Cole

censorship
Sen. Al Franken:  Comcast-NBC / Time Warner Merger Concentrates Media, Hurts Consumers

Sen. Al Franken: Comcast-NBC / Time Warner Merger Concentrates Media, Hurts Consumers

CNN: “Sen. Franken: We need more cable competition” Karl Bode writes in a similar vein at TechDirt: Comcast: Allowing Us To Get Immensely, Inconceivably, Ridiculously […]

Juan Cole

censorship
Donkeys on the Nile:  The Egyptian Gov't's Problem with Journalists

Donkeys on the Nile: The Egyptian Gov’t’s Problem with Journalists

(By Jonathan Moremi) “While Cairo was exploding, Egypt’s State TV aired pictures of a donkey pulling its cart peacefully along the banks of the river […]

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Climate Change
Game Over for Earth:  Big Carbon's Fatal, Scorching Triumph over Greens

Game Over for Earth: Big Carbon’s Fatal, Scorching Triumph over Greens

(By Michael T. Klare) Listening to President Obama’s State of the Union address, it would have been easy to conclude that we were slowly but […]

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Egypt
Putinism in Cairo?  The Rise of the Russian Model

Putinism in Cairo? The Rise of the Russian Model

Vladimir Putin on Thursday hailed the possibility of a run for the presidency of Egypt by Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the architect of the July […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
Planet, Oceans Burning Up:  There is no "Pause" in Global Warming

Planet, Oceans Burning Up: There is no “Pause” in Global Warming

(By Jon Queally) Climate change has not hit a "speed bump." The planet's temperature is not remaining steady and it certainly isn't cooling. Earth, especially […]

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Human Rights
Israel to Implant 9-Storey Ultra-Orthodox Seminary in Palestinian East Jerusalem

Israel to Implant 9-Storey Ultra-Orthodox Seminary in Palestinian East Jerusalem

(Via AFP) Israel to build high rise in annexed E.Jerusalem area: NGO (via AFP) Jerusalem’s planning committee moved forwards on Wednesday with plans to build […]

Juan Cole

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