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China Installed More Solar Power in 2013 than the US has in its Whole History
(By Joshua S. Hill) China’s Solar Market Beat All Expectations For 2013 (via Clean Technica) Despite predictions all through 2013 suggesting that Japan would walk […]
Israel’s KKK: Violent Squatters increasingly Attacking Palestinians
(By César Chelala) Increasing acts of violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories have been repeatedly denounced. Together with the increasing number […]
Who’s most innovative of all? Not Israel, says Bloomberg
This year’s Global Innovation Quotient furnishes a reality check for the Start-Up Nation
AKP winning perception war
Erdogan has been surprisingly successful in framing the graft probe in his favor, while purging the bureaucracy on an unprecedented scale.
3 Years Later, Young Bloggers who made the Tahrir Revolution are in Jail
The military “interim government” in Egypt is cracking down on virtually all meaningful form of assembly, association, or opposition. Following the passage of a November 2013 law banning peaceful protest, dozens of activists and organizers have…
CSI Baghdad: Why don’t Crime Units in the Carbomb Capital of the World do their Job?
(By Mustafa Habib, Baghdad) It is estimated that around 250 car bombs exploded in Baghdad last year. This year the numbers are climbing and bombers’ […]
Death toll of Obama’s Drone Campaign 5 Years Later: 2,400
(By Jack Serle) Obama has launched over 390 covert drone strikes in his first five years in office Five years ago, on January 23 2009, […]
On eve of Revolution Anniversary, Cairo Shaken by deadly Bombings
(By Juan Cole) Two bombings shook the Egyptian capital, Cairo, on Friday morning. The first was apparently a car bomb detonated at 5:30 am that […]
Top Ten Ways GOP could avoid “War on Women” Label
(By Juan Cole) Mike Huckabee objects to the charge that the Republican Party is waging a war on women. The GOP obviously is increasingly a […]
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