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Have we Reached Peak Fossil Fuels? Wind & Solar met all New Energy Demand in Q1-Q3 ’25
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Have we Reached Peak Fossil Fuels? Wind & Solar met all New Energy Demand in Q1-Q3 ’25

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Ember finds that solar power-generating capacity grew Q1-Q3 ’25 by an unprecedented 31% over the same three quarters in 2024

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Iran’s Capital, Tehran, Faces Zero Day without Water: Climate Change and Bad Policy

Iran’s Capital, Tehran, Faces Zero Day without Water: Climate Change and Bad Policy

12/02/2025 By The Conversation

Rebuking U of Guelph for Cancellation of People’s Conference for Palestinian Solidarity

Rebuking U of Guelph for Cancellation of People’s Conference for Palestinian Solidarity

12/02/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

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Tampa Area Republicans terrified of Tea Party, Ryan (Guzzo)

Tampa Area Republicans terrified of Tea Party, Ryan (Guzzo)

Paul Guzzo writes in a guest column for Informed Comment: As Republicans from all over the nation converge upon the City of Tampa to celebrate […]

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South Africa: Label West Bank Squatter Products; Israel: You Apartheid State!

South Africa: Label West Bank Squatter Products; Israel: You Apartheid State!

Having Avigdor Lieberman as a foreign minister is one of the worst things that could happen to Israel. I was in Brazil last year this […]

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Just Deserts: Iraqis get Iraq’s Oil, not Bush/Cheney (Muttitt)

Just Deserts: Iraqis get Iraq’s Oil, not Bush/Cheney (Muttitt)

Gregg Muttitt writes at Tomdispatch: Mission Accomplished for Big Oil? How an American Disaster Paved the Way for Big Oil’s Rise — and Possible Fall […]

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Top Five Worst Planks in GOP Platform

Top Five Worst Planks in GOP Platform

These are the promises that the Republican Party is making to us if it wins: 1. Outlawing abortion altogether, with no exceptions for the life […]

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Syrian Official: Resignation of al-Assad on the Table

Syrian Official: Resignation of al-Assad on the Table

Admittedly, the Baathist government of Bashar al-Assad could go on faltering for a long time. And it is very hard to know what is going […]

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Hurricane Isaac may Threaten RNC convention of Climate-Change Deniers in Tampa

Hurricane Isaac may Threaten RNC convention of Climate-Change Deniers in Tampa

Hurricane season comes every year in the Mexican Gulf, so it is no real surprise that a tropical depression in the Atlantic may well turn […]

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Dear Rep. King:  Meet a Pregnant Rape Victim

Dear Rep. King: Meet a Pregnant Rape Victim

Following in Rep. Todd Akin’s footsteps, evangelical extremist Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) said today of pregnancy from rape, “Well I just haven’t heard of that […]

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Islamic Shariah & Todd Akin/ Paul Ryan on Abortion & Legitimate Rape

Islamic Shariah & Todd Akin/ Paul Ryan on Abortion & Legitimate Rape

The troubles of Rep. Todd Akin, Republican candidate for the senate in Missouri, derive from his absolute opposition to abortion, even in cases where a […]

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On Real Gender and Racial Equality (Gloria Steinem Poster)

On Real Gender and Racial Equality (Gloria Steinem Poster)

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