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Trump never saw a Wind Farm in China, but Beijing has half of all Installed Wind Capacity and will Eat America’s Lunch in this Industry
China

Trump never saw a Wind Farm in China, but Beijing has half of all Installed Wind Capacity and will Eat America’s Lunch in this Industry

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The dufus-in-chief perorated on Friday once again on wind power, complaining that the components are made in China but that […]

The Gaza Genocide is still far from being condemned in the West’s Rhetoric

The Gaza Genocide is still far from being condemned in the West’s Rhetoric

07/05/2025 By Ramona Wadi

Comics and Graphic Novels can empower Refugees to tell their Stories on their own Terms

Comics and Graphic Novels can empower Refugees to tell their Stories on their own Terms

07/05/2025 By The Conversation

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UN to look into US Drone Program, but the Biggest Victim is Democracy

UN to look into US Drone Program, but the Biggest Victim is Democracy

The US use of armed drones in northern Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen is now being investigated by the United Nations as a human rights abuse […]

Juan Cole

Libya
Top Ten Republican Myths on Benghazi that Justify Hillary Clinton's Anger

Top Ten Republican Myths on Benghazi that Justify Hillary Clinton’s Anger

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton let Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) have it in her testimony about Benghazi on Wednesday:

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Global Warming is a Domestic Crisis (Cole at Truthdig)

Global Warming is a Domestic Crisis (Cole at Truthdig)

My column is out at Truthdig entitled “Global Warming is a Domestic Crisis” Excerpt: “At a time of continued unemployment and Republican assaults on workers’ […]

Juan Cole

Israel
Netanyahu Emerges Weakened, But Most under Israeli Apartheid were Disenfranchised

Netanyahu Emerges Weakened, But Most under Israeli Apartheid were Disenfranchised

Early returns for the Israeli elections suggest that turnout was high in secular areas like Tel Aviv and in some Palestinian-Israeli districts, whereas it was […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Obama’s Inaugural and the Danger of an Iran War

Obama’s Inaugural and the Danger of an Iran War

President Obama addressed the big issues of war and peace in his inaugural address, and despite the vagueness of some of his pronouncements, they contain […]

Juan Cole

US politics
Top Ten Ways President Obama has Expanded our Rights, in Rev. King’s Footsteps

Top Ten Ways President Obama has Expanded our Rights, in Rev. King’s Footsteps

In holding his inaugural on Martin Luther King Day, President Obama is underlining his achievement as the first African-American president and the first and only […]

Juan Cole

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Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Last Speech Pleading to Preserve our First Amendment Rights

Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Last Speech Pleading to Preserve our First Amendment Rights

In his last speech before being assassinated, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. complained about unjustified curbs on freedom of speech and freedom of assembly: It […]

Juan Cole

US politics
Obama Sworn in for Second Term Sunday (Mitch McConnell Photograph)

Obama Sworn in for Second Term Sunday (Mitch McConnell Photograph)

Obama Sworn in to Second Term: “Our top political priority over the next two years should be to deny Barack Obama a second term.” – […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Anti-Mercury UN Minimata Convention Approved in Geneva: Impact on Coal?

Anti-Mercury UN Minimata Convention Approved in Geneva: Impact on Coal?

140 nations meeting in Geneva have concluded an accord to limit mercury emissions, which must now be ratified by individual nations. It has implications for […]

Juan Cole

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