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With China’s Help, Saudi Arabia is Deploying Solar Power Faster than any Country in History
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With China’s Help, Saudi Arabia is Deploying Solar Power Faster than any Country in History

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Jeffrey Beyer and Stephen Gitonga of the UN Development Program present an overview of Saudi Arabia’s full court press to […]

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Broken Promises: Deceptive Marketing Practices in Medicare

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How Women Journalists and Activists have been Changing the Middle East

How Women Journalists and Activists have been Changing the Middle East

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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 […]

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Syria
The World after the Kerry-Lavrov accord on Syria

The World after the Kerry-Lavrov accord on Syria

The agreement reached by Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry at Geneva on Saturday regarding the sequester of Syria’s […]

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Syria
7 Million Displaced Syrians, Bayda Massacre, & other Reports you Didn't see on American TV

7 Million Displaced Syrians, Bayda Massacre, & other Reports you Didn’t see on American TV

American network & cable television has been focused his week on US-Russian diplomacy with relatively little coverage (aside from Ben Wedemann on CNN and a […]

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Energy
Neil Young: Alberta Tar Sands fields ‘Look like Hiroshima’ (Chamberlain)

Neil Young: Alberta Tar Sands fields ‘Look like Hiroshima’ (Chamberlain)

Jacob Chamberlain writes at Commondreams.org Fresh off a trip to Canada's tar sands oil fields in Alberta, famed singer Neil Young spoke out at a […]

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Russia
Arguing with President Putin

Arguing with President Putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin published an opinion piece in the New York Times on Wednesday. Here is my attempt at refutation of some of the […]

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Syrian opposition may attack Israel with chemical weapons, Asad tells Russian TV

Syrian opposition may attack Israel with chemical weapons, Asad tells Russian TV

The USG Open Source Center translates an article from Russia’s Rossiya 24 TV containing quotes from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad alleging that Syrian rebels might […]

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Syria
If Obama goes Back to Congress on Syria, they must save America by voting No (van Buren)

If Obama goes Back to Congress on Syria, they must save America by voting No (van Buren)

Peter Van Buren writes at Tomdispatch.com Once again, we find ourselves at the day after 9/11, and this time America stands alone. Alone not only […]

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Syria
Top Ten things Americans need to Know about Syria if they’re going to Threaten to Bomb It

Top Ten things Americans need to Know about Syria if they’re going to Threaten to Bomb It

Ambrose Bierce is said to be the author of the saying “War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.” Despite the vigorous national debate about […]

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Government surveillance
US NSA Gives Israel Raw Intelligence on US Citizens (Chamberlain)

US NSA Gives Israel Raw Intelligence on US Citizens (Chamberlain)

Jacob Chamberlain writes at Commondreams.org The National Security Agency openly shares unfiltered intelligence files with the Israeli government, according to a classified document leaked to […]

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