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When even Saudi Arabia Jumps into Solar and Wind Power, You know Change is Here
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When even Saudi Arabia Jumps into Solar and Wind Power, You know Change is Here

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Saudi Arabia’s massive oil deposits and its 9.53 million barrels per day (bpd) of petroleum production make it an enormous […]

How Europe is managing Guilt over Gaza: The Politics of moral Cleansing

How Europe is managing Guilt over Gaza: The Politics of moral Cleansing

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Trump Junk: Won’t Enforce Rules for Short-Term Junk Health Insurance Plans

Trump Junk: Won’t Enforce Rules for Short-Term Junk Health Insurance Plans

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Mount Sharp, Mars (Photo of the Day from Curiosity)

Mount Sharp, Mars (Photo of the Day from Curiosity)

NASA has released the first high-res picture of Mars received from Curiosity, showing Mount Sharp

Juan Cole

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Top Ten Signs you Might be a Nazi Loser

Top Ten Signs you Might be a Nazi Loser

1. If you regularly pose proudly in front of a swastika flag, you might be a Nazi loser. 2. If you refer to “non-whites” as […]

Juan Cole

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Chinese telecoms giants are taking over the world. Should we be scared? (McClenaghan)

Chinese telecoms giants are taking over the world. Should we be scared? (McClenaghan)

Maeve McClenaghan writes at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism😐 Huawei is not yet a household name in the UK – for one thing, there is […]

Juan Cole

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On Human unity and the "Curiosity" NASA Control Room

On Human unity and the “Curiosity” NASA Control Room

In this video of the NASA control room during the landing of the Curiosity rover on Mars, I don’t see only one race or gender. […]

Juan Cole

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White Terrorism at Oak Creek: The Paranoid Style in American Violence

White Terrorism at Oak Creek: The Paranoid Style in American Violence

We still have only rumors about Wade Michael Page, the gunman who walked into a Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin near Milwaukee and opened […]

Juan Cole

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58 Murders by firearms a year in Britain, 8,775 in US (Oak Creek Reprint Edn.)

58 Murders by firearms a year in Britain, 8,775 in US (Oak Creek Reprint Edn.)

Updated Number of Murders, United States, 2010: 12,996 Number of Murders by Firearms, US, 2010: 8,775 Number of Murders, Britain, 2011*: 638 (Since Britain’s population […]

Juan Cole

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Romney: You know things aren’t going well when…

Romney: You know things aren’t going well when…

As for the Romney campaign, you know things aren’t going well when Rachel Maddow finds old footage of you demanding that Ted Kennedy release his […]

Juan Cole

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US Drone Strikes Undermining Pakistan Democracy (Woods)

US Drone Strikes Undermining Pakistan Democracy (Woods)

Chris Woods writes at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism: One of Islamabad’s most senior diplomats has told the Bureau of Investigative Journalism that ongoing CIA […]

Juan Cole

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Revolutionaries in Syria Claim 60% of Aleppo as UN Condemns al-Assad

Revolutionaries in Syria Claim 60% of Aleppo as UN Condemns al-Assad

Since the Free Syrian Army is a guerrilla group, whether it can hold the northern metropolis of Aleppo is not absolutely central to its survival. […]

Juan Cole

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