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Solar Power outstripped all others in Europe last Month for First Time
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Solar Power outstripped all others in Europe last Month for First Time

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – As the Trump Department of Energy and the Republican tax bill try to kneecap solar energy in the United States, […]

‘Come meet us in Dubai’: the new Offshoring of grand Corruption

‘Come meet us in Dubai’: the new Offshoring of grand Corruption

07/12/2025 By The Conversation

Stop Israel’s Dystopian Concentration Camp in Gaza before it is Too Late

Stop Israel’s Dystopian Concentration Camp in Gaza before it is Too Late

07/12/2025 By Medea Benjamin

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Africa
Kenya: Solar Power on a Pay as you Go Plan gives Light, rechargers to Villagers

Kenya: Solar Power on a Pay as you Go Plan gives Light, rechargers to Villagers

“Small solar home systems bring good quality light and phone-charging to off-grid households and save them money. Yet their upfront costs render them out of […]

Juan Cole

Domestic Surveillance
Obama Explains his NSA Domestic Spying & Why it differs from Bush's (Cartoon satire)

Obama Explains his NSA Domestic Spying & Why it differs from Bush’s (Cartoon satire)

Cartoon satire: “President Obama explains why Americans should not be concerned about the NSA’s secret data collection program and that he is very different from […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israel's District 9:  Its Biggest Ethnic Cleansing since 1948

Israel’s District 9: Its Biggest Ethnic Cleansing since 1948

30,000 Palestinian-Israelis of Bedouin heritage are are being forcibly transferred by the Israeli government, and thousands of acres of their land is being stolen from […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
The Backlash against Political Islam is not a Backlash against Islam:  Egypt and Bangladesh

The Backlash against Political Islam is not a Backlash against Islam: Egypt and Bangladesh

There is a big difference between being a believing Muslim and being a devotee of political Islam. Political Islam attempts to make the religion a […]

Juan Cole

US politics
Guns and Sissified Punks (Friday Scene)

Guns and Sissified Punks (Friday Scene)

From the 1995 stoner movie “Friday”: The father [John Witherspoon] of Craig Jones [Ice Cube] warns him against carrying a gun in the local neighborhood […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Tiny Cape Verde's Push to be a World Leader in Wind Energy

Tiny Cape Verde’s Push to be a World Leader in Wind Energy

Finnfund explains: “The windswept islands of Cape Verde lie off West Africa, some 500 km from Senegal. They are the site of Africa’s largest wind […]

Juan Cole

Domestic Surveillance
A Century of America’s Imperial Deep State (McCoy)

A Century of America’s Imperial Deep State (McCoy)

Alfred W. McCoy writes at Tomdispatch.com The American surveillance state is now an omnipresent reality, but its deep history is little known and its future […]

Juan Cole

US politics
Whites and African-Americans in America by the numbers

Whites and African-Americans in America by the numbers

88% of African-Americans in a recent Pew poll said that there was “a lot” (46%) or “some” (42% ) discrimination against them. Only 57% of […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Egypt:  Prosecutor Comes after Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood, as Divided Mass Protests Continue

Egypt: Prosecutor Comes after Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood, as Divided Mass Protests Continue

Egypt’s June 30 Movement is calling for big demonstrations on Sunday, saying “no” to “terrorism” and “yes” to the “gains of the Revolution.” The movements […]

Juan Cole

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