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Global South is now 1/3 of major EV Markets, Leaving US in the Dust
Climate Crisis

Global South is now 1/3 of major EV Markets, Leaving US in the Dust

Juan Cole

The adoption of electric vehicles has spread to the Global South and is no longer only a Chinese, European and American phenomenon.

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3 Narratives of Gaza: Trump’s Riviera, Palestinians’ Two-States, Israel’s Genocide

3 Narratives of Gaza: Trump’s Riviera, Palestinians’ Two-States, Israel’s Genocide

12/23/2025 By Ramzy Baroud

“You will not Kill our Imagination:” Palestinian Memoirist Saeed Teebi

“You will not Kill our Imagination:” Palestinian Memoirist Saeed Teebi

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Domestic Surveillance
Why Cheney is the Traitor, and Why we Can't Believe Obama on Safeguards (The Ultimate Clip of Gov't Lies)

Why Cheney is the Traitor, and Why we Can’t Believe Obama on Safeguards (The Ultimate Clip of Gov’t Lies)

Dick Cheney on Monday called NSA leaker Edward Snowden a traitor, and Snowden shot back that given Cheney’s own lies about Iraq, it is an […]

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Energy
Japan's Feed-in Tariff Kicks off Explosive Renewables Growth (Video Report)

Japan’s Feed-in Tariff Kicks off Explosive Renewables Growth (Video Report)

This video report argues that Japan’s introduction of feed-in tariffs has given a huge boost to its renewable energy market, and that India should follow […]

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CIA
Syria, NSA Spying, Popular Mobilization and History:  Cole Interview in La Prensa (Ricky Martinez)

Syria, NSA Spying, Popular Mobilization and History: Cole Interview in La Prensa (Ricky Martinez)

Interview with Juan Cole by Ricky Martínez (These are the English notes of the interview rearranged in pyramid form; they were translated and published in […]

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Domestic Surveillance
PATRIOT Act Drafters worried about Library Privacy, had No Idea everyone’s Phone Records would be Dragooned (Elliott)

PATRIOT Act Drafters worried about Library Privacy, had No Idea everyone’s Phone Records would be Dragooned (Elliott)

Justin Elliott writes at ProPublica In the months following the October 2001, passage of the Patriot Act, there was a heated public debate about the […]

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UAE
Dubai: Solar-Powered Teardrop Building to Suck Water from Air

Dubai: Solar-Powered Teardrop Building to Suck Water from Air

On the proposed sustainable ‘Water Building’ in Dubai See also the “most sustainable building in the world,” in Dubai: The Change Initiative on Sheikh Zayed […]

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Egypt
Egypt's Morsi Calls for No-Fly Zone over Syria: A step toward regional Sunni-Shiite War?

Egypt’s Morsi Calls for No-Fly Zone over Syria: A step toward regional Sunni-Shiite War?

Egypt’s President, Muhammad Morsi, called Saturday for a no-fly zone over Syria authorized by the UN Security Council. At the same time, he cut off […]

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Government surveillance
British Gov’t Spied on Diplomats at G20 (& on UN before Iraq War)

British Gov’t Spied on Diplomats at G20 (& on UN before Iraq War)

The Guardian is reporting that: “Foreign politicians and officials who took part in two G20 summit meetings in London in 2009 had their computers monitored […]

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US politics
Top 5 Temptations the Surveillance State Can’t Resist (Engelhardt)

Top 5 Temptations the Surveillance State Can’t Resist (Engelhardt)

Tom Engelhardt writes at Tomdispatch.com The Making of a Global Security State As happens with so much news these days, the Edward Snowden revelations about […]

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History
A Brief History of Typography (Animated Video)

A Brief History of Typography (Animated Video)

A History of Typography, by Ben Barrett-Forrest:

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