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America’s worsening Solar Gap with China, which installs 100 Panels per Second
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America’s worsening Solar Gap with China, which installs 100 Panels per Second

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – According to Asia Society Policy Institute Senior Fellow Lauri Myllyvirta, China installed 93 gigawatts of solar in May, along with […]

Guterres: “Seeking Food Must Not Be A Death Sentence”

Guterres: “Seeking Food Must Not Be A Death Sentence”

06/29/2025 By International Middle East Media Center

Earth is Trapping much more Heat than Climate Models Forecast – and the Rate has Doubled in 20 Years

Earth is Trapping much more Heat than Climate Models Forecast – and the Rate has Doubled in 20 Years

06/29/2025 By The Conversation

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The Way Forward in the Middle East — Peled & Peled

The Way Forward in the Middle East — Peled & Peled

Yoav Peled and Horit Herman Peled write in a guest column for Informed Comment The Way Forward in the Middle East Reversing a bi-partisan US […]

Juan Cole

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Béji:  “We are all Tunisian Jews”

Béji: “We are all Tunisian Jews”

Hélé Béji, a prominent woman writer from an old notable family in Tunis, was outraged by an incident in early January when a small crowd […]

Juan Cole

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GOP Candidates Harm Israeli Security by Pushing for Impractical “Greater Israel”

GOP Candidates Harm Israeli Security by Pushing for Impractical “Greater Israel”

The Republican candidates for president once again tried to out-do the Likud Party in their devotion to the doctrine of the Iron Wall and their […]

Juan Cole

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Egyptian Crowds in Tahrir Insist the Revolution will Continue

Egyptian Crowds in Tahrir Insist the Revolution will Continue

Perhaps 100,000 Egyptians came out on Wednesday in Tahrir Square in Cairo to mark the anniversary of the first massive protest that led to the […]

Juan Cole

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SOTU and a Destabilized Middle East

SOTU and a Destabilized Middle East

President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address treated the Middle East at several points, underlining the unusual importance of this region to the United […]

Juan Cole

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Graphic of World Military Spending (Iran’s too Small to Show up)

Graphic of World Military Spending (Iran’s too Small to Show up)

World military spending in 2010. Note that Iran’s is not a big enough proportion of world arms spending to show up on this graph, which […]

Juan Cole

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Mohamed Bouazizi (d. 2011) from Tunisia to San Francisco to SOTU

Mohamed Bouazizi (d. 2011) from Tunisia to San Francisco to SOTU

Graffiti from Mission Street, San Francisco in honor of Mohamed Bouazizi, whose self-immolation kicked off the Tunisian Revolution, inspired the Tahrir Square demonstrations, and the […]

Juan Cole

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Tomgram: William Astore, Confessions of a Recovering Weapons Addict

Tomgram: William Astore, Confessions of a Recovering Weapons Addict

Perhaps you’ve heard of “Makin’ Thunderbirds,” a hard-bitten rock & roll song by Bob Seger that I listened to 30 years ago while in college…

Juan Cole

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Can Europe’s Oil Boycott Really Sink Iran?

Can Europe’s Oil Boycott Really Sink Iran?

The European Union threatened Iran on Monday with cutting off petroleum imports into the 27 EU member states, and announced sanctions on Iranian banks and […]

Juan Cole

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