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Riyadh-Islamabad “Islamic NATO” to Check Israel in Shadow of US Decline
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Riyadh-Islamabad “Islamic NATO” to Check Israel in Shadow of US Decline

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a dramatic signal that the Arab Gulf nations have completely lost faith in the American security umbrella, on Wednesday […]

Stephen Colbert:  “We are all Jimmy Kimmel”

Stephen Colbert: “We are all Jimmy Kimmel”

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Israeli Forces’ Attack on Sanaa kills Journalists

Israeli Forces’ Attack on Sanaa kills Journalists

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Energy
Top Ten Solar Power good news Stories Today

Top Ten Solar Power good news Stories Today

Climate change produced by human burning of fossil fuels is a dire challenge to life as we know it on earth, and it will likely […]

Juan Cole

Government surveillance
Brazilian President Snubs Obama:   How US Cyber Espionage will Destroy the Internet

Brazilian President Snubs Obama: How US Cyber Espionage will Destroy the Internet

The USG Open Source Center reports on Brazilian press reaction to President Dilma Roussef’s decision to cancel her state visit to Washington DC this fall, […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Solar Car of the Future:  Sunswift Solar Two-Seater looks like an ordinary Coupe

Solar Car of the Future: Sunswift Solar Two-Seater looks like an ordinary Coupe

Giles Parkinson writes that this year Sunswift is making a revolutionary and exciting entry in the annual University of New South Wales solar car competition: […]

Juan Cole

Domestic Surveillance
How the National Security State creates its own Whistleblowers, with a Letter to the Next One (Engelhardt)

How the National Security State creates its own Whistleblowers, with a Letter to the Next One (Engelhardt)

Tom Engelhardt writes at Tomdispatch.com Dear Whistleblower, I don’t know who you are or what you do or how old you may be. I just […]

Juan Cole

Syria
UN Report Conclusive Sarin used on wide Scale, Points to Syrian Regime

UN Report Conclusive Sarin used on wide Scale, Points to Syrian Regime

When reports of a chemical weapons attack in Rif Dimashq near Damascus on August 21 first surfaced, some observers questioned whether these were really chemical […]

Juan Cole

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44 yearly Murders by Firearms in Britain [220 equiv.] vs. 8,583 in US;  US Navy now Menaced

44 yearly Murders by Firearms in Britain [220 equiv.] vs. 8,583 in US; US Navy now Menaced

Aaron Alexis carried out the mass murder of 13 people at the Navy Yard with an AR-15 assault rifle and a shotgun. AR-15 Bushmasters are […]

Juan Cole

Environment
Thousand-Year Flood in Colorado:  Climate Change & Extreme Weather

Thousand-Year Flood in Colorado: Climate Change & Extreme Weather

Commondreams.org writes The number of people missing or "unaccounted for" amid what experts are calling a thousand-year flood event in Colorado, is now more than […]

Juan Cole

Syria
The Hubris of the Syria Interventionists

The Hubris of the Syria Interventionists

The hawks who are deeply disappointed that diplomacy has likely forestalled a US military intervention in Syria in the foreseeable future often attempt to tug […]

Juan Cole

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Summers withdraws from Fed consideration; Won’t be Rewarded for Beggaring Us All

Summers withdraws from Fed consideration; Won’t be Rewarded for Beggaring Us All

Economist Larry Summers withdrew his name from consideration for chairman of the Federal Reserve last night, even though he had been increasingly considered the favorite […]

Juan Cole

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