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All the 15 Hottest Spots on Earth on Thursday were in Australia; Will it become Uninhabitable?
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All the 15 Hottest Spots on Earth on Thursday were in Australia; Will it become Uninhabitable?

Juan Cole

At a 2.7º C. increase, northern Australian areas such as Darwin, Broome and Port Hedland will become uninhabitable by the end of the century

Trump’s Iraq election threats could end up making Maliki more popular

Trump’s Iraq election threats could end up making Maliki more popular

01/30/2026 By Ibrahim Al-Marashi

Reading Obituaries: And Murdering Time in the Age of Donald Trump

Reading Obituaries: And Murdering Time in the Age of Donald Trump

01/30/2026 By Tom Engelhardt

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California gasoline crisis shows Desirability of Hybrid, Electric Cars

California gasoline crisis shows Desirability of Hybrid, Electric Cars

The Big Oil lobby is always talking about how unreliable wind and solar energy are. They say the wind doesn’t blow all the time, and […]

Juan Cole

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Global Facebook Network Connections on the Eve of the Arab Spring (Image)

Global Facebook Network Connections on the Eve of the Arab Spring (Image)

At first I thought that this late 2010 map of Facebook network connections left the Arab world blank. But I zeroed in, and Tunis, Alexandria […]

Juan Cole

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Half of All Solar Panels are in Germany (Video)

Half of All Solar Panels are in Germany (Video)

Video report on how exactly Germany’s renewable energy revolution has worked. From Renewable Energy Magazine

Juan Cole

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2012 Rumble/ Debate between Bill O'Reilly and Jon Stewart (Video)

2012 Rumble/ Debate between Bill O’Reilly and Jon Stewart (Video)

The 2012 Rumble (debate) between Bill O’Reilly and Jon Stewart: Best line: ‘Why should anyone vote for President Obama again?” Jon Stewart: “There are only […]

Juan Cole

Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam (336)

Omar Khayyam (336)

I know the outside  of being and nothingness, and I know the inside  of the high and the low. Even so, I should be ashamed  […]

Juan Cole

Pakistan
Imran Khan Protest Convoy Against US Drones Heads toward Waziristan, Pakistan

Imran Khan Protest Convoy Against US Drones Heads toward Waziristan, Pakistan

Charismatic Pakistani opposition politician, Imran Khan, set out Saturday from Islamabad in a motorized convoy for a mobile protest by his Justice Party against continued […]

Juan Cole

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Romney and the Gish Gallop or How Fact Checking doesn't Work (Young Turks)

Romney and the Gish Gallop or How Fact Checking doesn’t Work (Young Turks)

Cenk Uygur explains Romney’s apparent debate strategy, and explain why the media’s on-the-one-hand, on-the-other-hand approach obscures how outrageous the strategy is. Cenk has some fun […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Morocco more Forward-Looking on Green Energy than Mitt Romney (Film)

Morocco more Forward-Looking on Green Energy than Mitt Romney (Film)

Desertec and Morocco’s future as a solar and wind energy powerhouse. Or, how veiled young Moroccan Muslim women engineers are more clear-eyed about the future […]

Juan Cole

Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam (472) “Wine, you are my insane sweetheart”

Omar Khayyam (472) “Wine, you are my insane sweetheart”

       Wine, you are                       my insane                […]

Juan Cole

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