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California: Fossil Gas use Declining, replaced by Solar Plus Megabatteries
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California: Fossil Gas use Declining, replaced by Solar Plus Megabatteries

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Two-thirds of California’s electricity retail sales are now generated by renewables.

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From Sykes-Picot to Silicon Valley: Why Middle East Fault Lines now run through American Tech

From Sykes-Picot to Silicon Valley: Why Middle East Fault Lines now run through American Tech

12/19/2025 By Jasim Al-Azzawi

“We cannot Negotiate with the Melting Point of Ice:” World’s Ice Sheets shed 640 bn. Tons in 12 Months

“We cannot Negotiate with the Melting Point of Ice:” World’s Ice Sheets shed 640 bn. Tons in 12 Months

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Fukushima’s Strontium Leaks a Neverending Crisis?  (Germanos)

Fukushima’s Strontium Leaks a Neverending Crisis? (Germanos)

Andrea Germanos writes at Commondreams courtesy VOAnews As the disaster at Fukushima plant continues to unfold, one nuclear expert is warning that "this is an […]

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Domestic Surveillance
Before he Was President, Obama Championed Extensive Surveillance Reforms (Brandeisky)

Before he Was President, Obama Championed Extensive Surveillance Reforms (Brandeisky)

Kara Brandeisky writes at ProPublica When the House of Representatives recently considered an amendment that would have dismantled the NSA’s bulk phone records collection program, […]

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Domestic Surveillance
Obama’s Reassurances about Domestic Surveillance are not Reassuring

Obama’s Reassurances about Domestic Surveillance are not Reassuring

President Obama gave a news conference on Friday in which he addressed the controversy over Edward Snowden’s revelations regarding NSA spying on the American people. […]

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Human Rights
Burma's Muslims driven into the hands of human traffickers

Burma’s Muslims driven into the hands of human traffickers

While the issue of the mistreatment Rohingya Muslim minority has most involved Burma, it has roiled politics throughout Southeast Asia. Buddhist extremists have persecuted the […]

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censorship
Where is our Amsterdam? Lavabits, Snowden & Wikileaks Censorship recall age of Absolutism

Where is our Amsterdam? Lavabits, Snowden & Wikileaks Censorship recall age of Absolutism

The long struggle against censorship in the 18th century at the time of oppressive kings in Europe involved the hand-copying and circulation of unpublished anonymous […]

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Energy
Barbecuing the Planet:  With Fracking, we’ll go on investing 3x in Hydrocarbons what we will in renewables (Klare)

Barbecuing the Planet: With Fracking, we’ll go on investing 3x in Hydrocarbons what we will in renewables (Klare)

Michael T. Klare writes at Tomdispatch.com: When it comes to energy and economics in the climate-change era, nothing is what it seems.  Most of us […]

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Domestic Surveillance
The Miranda Warning in 2013 is Worded a little Differently (Jamiol Cartoon)

The Miranda Warning in 2013 is Worded a little Differently (Jamiol Cartoon)

courtesy of Jamiol’s World

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US politics
Sanjay Gupta: We have been Systematically Misled on Dangers of Marijuana

Sanjay Gupta: We have been Systematically Misled on Dangers of Marijuana

Dr. Gupta with Piers Morgan

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Egypt
"After the Ruler undermined Democracy, the people wanted the Military..." Egypt 1952 (video)

“After the Ruler undermined Democracy, the people wanted the Military…” Egypt 1952 (video)

Egyptian Revolution of 1952 “the Communists called it a military dictatorship . . .” “Gen. Muhammad Naguib was considered a Muslim Brotherhood sympathizer . . […]

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