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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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Turkey
Police Brutality and Turkish Protests (Compilation Video)

Police Brutality and Turkish Protests (Compilation Video)

Compilation video of police brutality in Turkish Gezi Park protests: As usual with grassroots Youtube videos, the authenticity of it cannot be independently verified from […]

Juan Cole

Turkey
Defiant Erdogan Risks Turkish Economy, as Unions enter the Fray

Defiant Erdogan Risks Turkish Economy, as Unions enter the Fray

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan is now risking Turkey’s economic miracle by his imperious reaction to the protests in dozens of cities that have roiled […]

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Syria
Syria as a Prisoner of Western History (Harms)

Syria as a Prisoner of Western History (Harms)

Gregory Harms writes in a guest op-ed for Informed Comment The influential Egyptian Islamist cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi recently issued a fatwa, or religious proclamation, with […]

Juan Cole

Turkey
Binary Signaling & Turkish Protests (Izmir Video)

Binary Signaling & Turkish Protests (Izmir Video)

People in Izmir apartments turning off and on their lights in support of the protests in Turkey.

Juan Cole

Turkey
Turkish Opinion Poll Finds Majorities Slam Erdogan policies on Alcohol, Syria

Turkish Opinion Poll Finds Majorities Slam Erdogan policies on Alcohol, Syria

On Sunday night into Monday morning in Turkey, clashes again broke out between demonstrators and police in a number of cities, and an attempt was […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
How the US Can Facilitate Peace in Syria: Talking to All Sides including Iran (Lawson)

How the US Can Facilitate Peace in Syria: Talking to All Sides including Iran (Lawson)

Fred H. Lawson writes in a guest column for Informed Comment Secretary of State John F. Kerry took a major step toward engaging the United […]

Juan Cole

Environment
Abusing the Sea:  from Garbage Dump to Rising Waters & CO2 (Lapham)

Abusing the Sea: from Garbage Dump to Rising Waters & CO2 (Lapham)

[This essay by Lewis Lapham will appear in “The Sea,” the Summer 2013 issue of Lapham’s Quarterly. This slightly adapted version is posted at TomDispatch.com with […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized

Dear US Government: Your ‘Terror’ map of the Muslim World is from the Time of Shakespeare (Kurzman))

Charles Kurzman writes at Islamicommentary Screenshot of the National Counterterrorism Center’s Interactive Map, April 30, 2013. “The United States is not at war with Islam,” […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Stateless!  The Core of the Palestinian Crisis (Juan Cole Video)

Stateless! The Core of the Palestinian Crisis (Juan Cole Video)

My talk at the Jerusalem Fund (the 2013 Hisham B. Sharabi Memorial Lecture with Dr. Juan Cole) The Jerusalem Fund & Palestine Center: Hisham B. […]

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