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We are What we Eat: A Step We all Can take to Fight Climate Breakdown
Climate Crisis

We are What we Eat: A Step We all Can take to Fight Climate Breakdown

H. Patricia Hynes

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Nuclear physicist Edward Teller predicted in 1959 that the risks of burning fossil fuels, by increasing carbon […]

FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 2

FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 2

08/07/2025 By Juan Cole

The Verdict of History: How political Calculations betrayed Gaza

The Verdict of History: How political Calculations betrayed Gaza

08/07/2025 By Ramzy Baroud

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Egypt
"Capturing football fields" of power - Offshore Wind-Wave Energy Farms in Japan and California

“Capturing football fields” of power – Offshore Wind-Wave Energy Farms in Japan and California

For the real-world project, look to Japan: “The world’s first hybrid power generation system is due to be installed off the coast of western Japan […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Oil Spills blacken Today's Environment from Alberta to Thailand:  Wind and Solar are Way Better!

Oil Spills blacken Today’s Environment from Alberta to Thailand: Wind and Solar are Way Better!

1. High pressure steam injection as a technique of getting oil out of the ground has gone very wrong in Canada: Canadian First Nations protest […]

Juan Cole

Islam
The Burka Avenger stands up to Male Chauvinist Taliban on Pakistani TV

The Burka Avenger stands up to Male Chauvinist Taliban on Pakistani TV

The Burka Avenger is a children’s cartoon about a mild-mannered female school teacher in Pakistan who has an alter ego. As the black-clad Burka Avenger, […]

Juan Cole

US politics
How a Bill Becomes Law (George Carlin)

How a Bill Becomes Law (George Carlin)

George Carlin explains how the United States really works. Warning: some profanity (as is appropriate to the subject). The Clip

Juan Cole

Domestic Surveillance
Putin as America's Frenemy:  The Snowden Paradox

Putin as America’s Frenemy: The Snowden Paradox

Russia’s decision on Thursday to grant NSA leaker Edward Snowden asylum for one year and allow him freely to live and work in the Russian […]

Juan Cole

Syria
Syrian Regime takes Key Homs Neighborhood in advance against Rebels

Syrian Regime takes Key Homs Neighborhood in advance against Rebels

The Syrian military has taken an important Homs neighborhood that had been in the hands of the rebels for over a year, as part of […]

Juan Cole

India
Red Baraat makes NYC Music with a Punjabi Beat (Video)

Red Baraat makes NYC Music with a Punjabi Beat (Video)

Blurb: “New York City’s multicultural population is fertile ground for fusions in art and music. VOA’s Carolyn Weaver reports on Red Baraat, an eight-member band […]

Juan Cole

Drones

BOIJ on Pakistan: First the CIA Droned them, Then it Droned the Rescuers (Woods and Yusufzai)

Chris Woods writes at The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (Additional reporting by Mushtaq Yusufzai) A field investigation by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism in Pakistan’s […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood Defiant as Government Mulls Dispersing Crowds in Cairo, Giza

Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood Defiant as Government Mulls Dispersing Crowds in Cairo, Giza

There are two places the Muslim Brotherhood is emulating the revolutionary youth of 2011 and occupying a public square– the place in front of the […]

Juan Cole

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