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The COP30 Climate Meet had One Job, and Totally Crashed and Burned
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The COP30 Climate Meet had One Job, and Totally Crashed and Burned

Juan Cole

The bad guys included Saudi Arabia and the entire Arab bloc, along with China, India, and other nations still in thrall to Big Carbon

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West Bank: Israel Emptying Refugee Camps a Crime Against Humanity

West Bank: Israel Emptying Refugee Camps a Crime Against Humanity

11/23/2025 By Human Rights Watch

Why Israeli Soldiers and their Leaders are increasingly at Risk of ArrestĀ Overseas

Why Israeli Soldiers and their Leaders are increasingly at Risk of ArrestĀ Overseas

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Netanyahu Emerges Weakened, But Most under Israeli Apartheid were Disenfranchised

Netanyahu Emerges Weakened, But Most under Israeli Apartheid were Disenfranchised

Early returns for the Israeli elections suggest that turnout was high in secular areas like Tel Aviv and in some Palestinian-Israeli districts, whereas it was […]

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Iran
Obama’s Inaugural and the Danger of an Iran War

Obama’s Inaugural and the Danger of an Iran War

President Obama addressed the big issues of war and peace in his inaugural address, and despite the vagueness of some of his pronouncements, they contain […]

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Top Ten Ways President Obama has Expanded our Rights, in Rev. King’s Footsteps

Top Ten Ways President Obama has Expanded our Rights, in Rev. King’s Footsteps

In holding his inaugural on Martin Luther King Day, President Obama is underlining his achievement as the first African-American president and the first and only […]

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Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Last Speech Pleading to Preserve our First Amendment Rights

Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Last Speech Pleading to Preserve our First Amendment Rights

In his last speech before being assassinated, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. complained about unjustified curbs on freedom of speech and freedom of assembly: It […]

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US politics
Obama Sworn in for Second Term Sunday (Mitch McConnell Photograph)

Obama Sworn in for Second Term Sunday (Mitch McConnell Photograph)

Obama Sworn in to Second Term: “Our top political priority over the next two years should be to deny Barack Obama a second term.” – […]

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Energy
Anti-Mercury UN Minimata Convention Approved in Geneva: Impact on Coal?

Anti-Mercury UN Minimata Convention Approved in Geneva: Impact on Coal?

140 nations meeting in Geneva have concluded an accord to limit mercury emissions, which must now be ratified by individual nations. It has implications for […]

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al Qaeda in the Arabian Penisula
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, […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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