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

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

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

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Obama Isolated at G8 on Arms for Syrian Rebels

Obama Isolated at G8 on Arms for Syrian Rebels

President Obama met with British Prime Minister David Cameron on Friday in advance of Monday’s G8 summit. The 8 leaders meeting in Northern Ireland, will […]

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Turkey
Erdogan Clears Gezi Park Protesters, sets Stage for Polarization

Erdogan Clears Gezi Park Protesters, sets Stage for Polarization

Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday evening into Sunday morning had police deploy water cannon and tear gas (some say laced with pepper spray) to […]

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Iran
An Outbreak of Reasonableness in Tehran:  Top Ten Conclusions from Iran’s Early Election Returns

An Outbreak of Reasonableness in Tehran: Top Ten Conclusions from Iran’s Early Election Returns

Update: Centrist Hassan Rouhani is Iran’s new president, having won a massive victory in a field of 6 candidates. 13:19 ET, 6/15/13 Early election returns […]

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Syria
Obama should Resist the Clintons & Europe on Syria

Obama should Resist the Clintons & Europe on Syria

Former president Bill Clinton criticized President Obama on Thursday for his inaction in regard to Syria. This step seems extraordinary and surely has something to […]

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Kuwait
The Emir of Kuwait's War on Twitter

The Emir of Kuwait’s War on Twitter

Kuwait in 2005 was hailed as a budding Arab democracy, with among the freest press in the Arab world. In the aftermath of the 2011 […]

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Iran
Qatar Press Condemns Hizbullah Intervention in Syria (Without Irony)

Qatar Press Condemns Hizbullah Intervention in Syria (Without Irony)

The USG Open Source Center translates or paraphrases reactions in the Qatari Arabic press to the Lebanese Shiite organization, Hizbullah, having successfully intervened in Syria […]

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Human Rights
Chinese Humorists Satirize the Snowden/ NSA Surveillance Scandal (Video)

Chinese Humorists Satirize the Snowden/ NSA Surveillance Scandal (Video)

Next Media Animation (a Taiwanese subsidiary of a Hong Kong firm) satirizes the Snowden/ NSA surveillance scandal by cartoon (English subtitles):

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Sunni-Shiite Conflict Spikes as al-Qaeda Massacres 60 Shiites, Gulf States Sanction Hizbullah

Sunni-Shiite Conflict Spikes as al-Qaeda Massacres 60 Shiites, Gulf States Sanction Hizbullah

A massacre of Shiite militiamen and other villagers by al-Qaeda in Hatla, Deir al-Zor, Syria, is sending shock waves through the Middle East, which has […]

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US politics
Who you Call is Far more Revealing than what you Say: Landau on Gov’t Spying (Democracy Now!)

Who you Call is Far more Revealing than what you Say: Landau on Gov’t Spying (Democracy Now!)

Democracy Now! interviews Susan Landau, mathematician and former Sun Microsystems engineer, author of the book Surveillance or Security?: The Risks Posed by New Wiretapping Technologies. […]

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