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Egypt slow rolled Solar, EVs and now Israel has Cut off its Fossil Gas amid Iran War
Egypt

Egypt slow rolled Solar, EVs and now Israel has Cut off its Fossil Gas amid Iran War

Juan Cole

Egypt’s inertia on green energy and EV’s is bringing the pain, as the virtual closure of the Strait of Hormuz provoke an energy price shock

In the Shadow of War, Israeli Settler Violence against Palestinians Intensifies

In the Shadow of War, Israeli Settler Violence against Palestinians Intensifies

03/18/2026 By Human Rights Watch

Donald Trump’s Racism Mirrors Jeffrey Epstein’s

Donald Trump’s Racism Mirrors Jeffrey Epstein’s

03/18/2026 By Clarence Lusane

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Israel/ Palestine
US loses UNESCO Voting Rights: How Kow-Towing to Israeli Policy Weakens America

US loses UNESCO Voting Rights: How Kow-Towing to Israeli Policy Weakens America

President Obama called America “the greatest country in the world” on Friday, but the same day the US lost basic voting rights on the United […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Top Reasons Israel’s Likud Really Opposes an Iran Nuclear Deal

Top Reasons Israel’s Likud Really Opposes an Iran Nuclear Deal

Rightwing Israeli politicians like Binyamin Netanyahu are squawking furiously about the prospect that Sec. of State John Kerry might reach an agreement with Iran over […]

Juan Cole

Arab Spring
Arts of the Arab Uprisings at the Arab-American Museum, Dearborn

Arts of the Arab Uprisings at the Arab-American Museum, Dearborn

The Arab-American Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, has mounted an exhibition on the Arts of the Arab Uprisings. It includes art, photography and video by street […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
How American Troops in Afghanistan became Unreal (Jones)

How American Troops in Afghanistan became Unreal (Jones)

Ann Jones writes at Tomdispath.com The last time I saw American soldiers in Afghanistan, they were silent. Knocked out by gunfire and explosions that left […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Record High Warming Gases in Atmosphere: Earth Losing Race Against Time (McCauley)

Record High Warming Gases in Atmosphere: Earth Losing Race Against Time (McCauley)

Lauren McCauley writes at Commondreams.org The amount of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in our atmosphere reached a record high in 2012, according to the World Meteorological […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
It wasn’t Arafat who was Assassinated but the Palestinian People

It wasn’t Arafat who was Assassinated but the Palestinian People

Aljazeera America has the exclusive on the Swiss scientists’ findings that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was poisoned with polonium, after the fashion of Russian dissident […]

Juan Cole

Islam
Ms. Marvel and the Rise of the Muslim Superhero in America

Ms. Marvel and the Rise of the Muslim Superhero in America

Umberto Eco argued that Superman, from the character’s inception in the 1940s through about 1970, was a politically conservative figure. The stories were about protecting […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Dear Press: Stop Enthusing About Habitable Planets until People like Va.'s Cuccinelli Stop Destroying this One

Dear Press: Stop Enthusing About Habitable Planets until People like Va.’s Cuccinelli Stop Destroying this One

The issue of habitable planets, earth’s own disastrous climate change, and Virginia politics don’t intersect every day. But today they do, and that does not […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israelis plan new Colonies, Oil Drilling, on Palestinian Land during “Peace Talks”

Israelis plan new Colonies, Oil Drilling, on Palestinian Land during “Peace Talks”

The current round of so-called peace talks between Israel and Palestine is marked by so much bad faith on the part of the Israelis that […]

Juan Cole

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