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The Hot Tub of Death? Bill Gates, Hurricane Melissa, and a Civilization Under Threat
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The Hot Tub of Death? Bill Gates, Hurricane Melissa, and a Civilization Under Threat

Juan Cole

As it turns out the high-tech sector that has produced so many billionaires isn’t pro-environment; instead simply pro-billionaire

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“Your Reward is Neither Here nor There!”  FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:24

“Your Reward is Neither Here nor There!” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:24

11/24/2025 By Juan Cole

Is Venezuela the New Iraq?

Is Venezuela the New Iraq?

11/24/2025 By Foreign Policy in Focus

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Saudi Arabian Women, Unveiled (VICE video)

Saudi Arabian Women, Unveiled (VICE video)

VICE reports on Saudi Arabian women, unveiled, showing the strong private/ public divide in the Kingdom (and moreover private and public are drawn differently there).

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We’ve been hurt before: Jon Stewart on Obama’s Renewed Pledge on Guantanamo

We’ve been hurt before: Jon Stewart on Obama’s Renewed Pledge on Guantanamo

Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show on President Obama’s renewed push to close the illegal Guantanamo prison camp. Limbo Update America wanted to believe Barack Obama’s […]

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Syria's Neighbors have Rising Anxiety about Crisis (Three Aljazeera Videos)

Syria’s Neighbors have Rising Anxiety about Crisis (Three Aljazeera Videos)

Turkey is strategizing how to limit the impact of the Syria war on Turkey. Ankara is particularly concerned by the emergence of a relatively autonomous […]

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Bad Camel

Bad Camel

Bad camel sticks head through window of family car, delights little girl no end by licking whole top of her head.

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Our Terror:  US Drone Strikes in Pakistan and Yemen, April 2013:

Our Terror: US Drone Strikes in Pakistan and Yemen, April 2013:

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism surveys US covert drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen for April, 2013 Pakistan April 2013 actions The US launched two […]

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The Incredible Shrinking Cost of Solar Energy Drives Mega-Projects around the World

The Incredible Shrinking Cost of Solar Energy Drives Mega-Projects around the World

Rob Wile uses a graph to point out the obvious, the dramatic fall in the cost of solar power generation. In many countries– Italy, Spain, […]

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Fracking ourselves to Death: Hydrocarbons are bad for Children and other Living Things (Cantarow)

Fracking ourselves to Death: Hydrocarbons are bad for Children and other Living Things (Cantarow)

Ellen Cantarow writes at Tomdispatch.com: More than 70 years ago, a chemical attack was launched against Washington State and Nevada. It poisoned people, animals, everything […]

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Why Obama doesn’t want to intervene in Syria

Why Obama doesn’t want to intervene in Syria

After President Obama’s remarks about chemical weapons use in Syria, many newspaper articles appeared suggesting that he was rethinking his opposition to US involvement there. […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Pundits Slam Kerry as Naive, Messianic for Arab League Concession

Israeli Pundits Slam Kerry as Naive, Messianic for Arab League Concession

Secretary of State John Kerry has wrung a concession from the Arab League, which now says that some minor changes in the 1967 border between […]

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