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The Genocidal Partnership of Israel and the United States
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The Genocidal Partnership of Israel and the United States

Norman Solomon

San Francisco (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – For decades, countless U.S. officials have proclaimed that the bonds between the United States and Israel are […]

Tehran On The Brink: Can Iran Survive Its Water Crisis?

Tehran On The Brink: Can Iran Survive Its Water Crisis?

07/29/2025 By Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

How Wind and Solar Power Keeps America’s Farms Alive

How Wind and Solar Power Keeps America’s Farms Alive

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Algerian Military Retakes Gas Plant: 16 Hostages, 32 terrorists Dead

Algerian Military Retakes Gas Plant: 16 Hostages, 32 terrorists Dead

The Algerian military took back the Ayn Imnas gas plant on Saturday, invading it and killing 32 radical fundamentalists, including their leader, Abdul Rahmani al-Nijeri, […]

Juan Cole

Energy
13 gigawatts of New Wind power in US in 2012, Renewables Half of all New Energy

13 gigawatts of New Wind power in US in 2012, Renewables Half of all New Energy

The US put in 13 gigawatts of new wind energy capacity in 2012, 5 of it in December alone, according to a Bloomberg study. The […]

Juan Cole

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Syrian Kurds Battle Extremist Fundamentalists

Syrian Kurds Battle Extremist Fundamentalists

In a potentially very bad sign for the Syrian Revolution, Agence France Presse Arabic reports that in the town of Ra’s al-Ain in the province […]

Juan Cole

US politics
Was Aaron Swartz a Cyber-Criminal or a Martin Luther King, Jr. of the Internet? (Thompson)

Was Aaron Swartz a Cyber-Criminal or a Martin Luther King, Jr. of the Internet? (Thompson)

Christie Thompson writes at ProPublica: When Reddit co-founder and internet freedom activist Aaron Swartz committed suicide last Friday, he was facing up to 13 felony counts, 50 […]

Juan Cole

Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam (162) “Be happy, since once you’re upset it goes on forever”

Omar Khayyam (162) “Be happy, since once you’re upset it goes on forever”

Be happy, since once you’re upset  it goes on forever– as stars move into conjunction  in the sky, it will go on. The brick they will […]

Juan Cole

Energy
How Lance Armstrong's Lies & Doping are Just like Climate Change Denial & CO2

How Lance Armstrong’s Lies & Doping are Just like Climate Change Denial & CO2

Understanding how performance-enhancing drugs raise the odds of success in sports helps us understand how dumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere raises the chances of […]

Juan Cole

Africa
Algeria's Botched Rescue Leaves Dozens of Hostages Dead, Angers West

Algeria’s Botched Rescue Leaves Dozens of Hostages Dead, Angers West

Reuters reports that the Algerian government’s intervention against the hostage crisis at a BP natural gas plant in southern Algeria has left 30 of the […]

Juan Cole

Africa
Ansar Dine and How Climate Change Contributed to the Algeria-Mali Crisis

Ansar Dine and How Climate Change Contributed to the Algeria-Mali Crisis

The destabilization of Mali and southern Algeria is a complex political and social process that does not have only one cause. But a changing ecology […]

Juan Cole

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Congress:  The Broken Engine of our Stalled Economy (Jamiol cartoon)

Congress: The Broken Engine of our Stalled Economy (Jamiol cartoon)

By Paul Jamiol, courtesy Jamiol’s World.

Juan Cole

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