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Europe Abandoning Hydrocarbons: Closing 30% of Gas, Coal Plants in Favor of Green Energy
(By Zachary Shahan) Europe’s Fossil Fuel Exit — 30% Of Fossil Fuel Power Capacity To Close By 2017, UBS Analysts Project (via Clean Technica) Following […]
“Zariya”: A. R. Rahman, Jordan song, Nepal Buddhist Hymn
India’s MTV program “Coke Studio” (sponsored by Coca Cola) presents: Published on Aug 1, 2013 Giving a whole new spin to the term ‘world music’ […]
John McCain and Lindsey Graham Want to invade Falluja Yet Again
(By Juan Cole) There were conflicting reports on Sunday morning about whether the Iraqi government and its allied tribal levies had regained control of the […]
Gaza: the challenges faced by the young women (Video of the Day)
France24 does what no US news channel will, reporting on the challenges facing young women in occupied Gaza Related article: Gaza power plant back online […]
The Politics of War Casualty Counts, from the “GWOT” to Syria
(By Michael Munk) Counting the casualties of war is a highly political exercise. We recall the competition for promotion and decoration between US military commanders […]
Bringing medieval Persian verse to the West: Dick Davis Interview
PBS Newshour’s Jeff Brown interviews Dick Davis, among the foremost Persian scholars and translators of our time, on the delights and glories of Persian poetry. […]
Iraq’s Sunni Civil War
(By Juan Cole) The attempt launched earlier this week by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS or ISIL) to take and hold city […]
No parallel organization within state can be tolerated, particularly inside judiciary: President Gül
President Abdullah Gül has expressed his concerns over claims relayed by several high-level officials of a ‘gang within the state’ aiming to topple the government
Iraq: Government assault as Sunni Extremists Take al-Anbar City Quarters
(By AFP) Clashes kill 32 civilians in Iraq’s Anbar (via AFP) Fighting killed at least 32 civilians on Friday in the Anbar province cities of […]
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