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Turning Point: Wind and Solar outstrip Fossil Fuels in Europe for First Time
Climate Crisis

Turning Point: Wind and Solar outstrip Fossil Fuels in Europe for First Time

Juan Cole

It is another clear piece of proof that humanity can get to carbon neutral by 2050 if it wants to.

Can American Youth Organize to save us from Despotism?

Can American Youth Organize to save us from Despotism?

02/04/2026 By Liz Theoharis

Inside the Challenges faced by Journalists covering Iran’s Protests

Inside the Challenges faced by Journalists covering Iran’s Protests

02/04/2026 By The Conversation

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Romney in the Land of the Anglo-Saxon Uncertain Olympics: Not Ready for Prime Time

Romney in the Land of the Anglo-Saxon Uncertain Olympics: Not Ready for Prime Time

Mitt Romney, astonishingly, managed to turn what should have been an easy set of photo-ops and feel-good platitudes into a diplomatic comedy of errors that […]

Juan Cole

art and photography
Tripoli, Libya: Martyr’s Square (Photo)

Tripoli, Libya: Martyr’s Square (Photo)

Martyr’s Square, Tripoli, Libya on a Friday afternoon. This is the area of the former “Green Square” where Qaddafi gave his hours-long crackpot speeches. It […]

Juan Cole

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“The Whirling Dervishes” by Mahmud Said (Painting)

“The Whirling Dervishes” by Mahmud Said (Painting)

Mahmoud Said (Egyptian, 1897-1964) The Whirling Dervishes signed and dated ‘M. SAID 1929’ (lower right) oil on panel 38 3/8 x 27½in. (97.5 x 69.8cm.) […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Top Ten Reasons Fracking won’t Last Long

Top Ten Reasons Fracking won’t Last Long

Proponents of natural gas fracturing and oil drilling are delirious with joy over the ability to recover shale gas, which has brought down world gas […]

Juan Cole

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The World’s Super-Rich have Stashed $21 Trillion in Offshore Accounts (Mathiason)

The World’s Super-Rich have Stashed $21 Trillion in Offshore Accounts (Mathiason)

Nick Mathiason writes at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism: Investigative economist James Henry exhaustively trawled through financial information held by the IMF, World Bank, Bank […]

Juan Cole

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Egypt: Military Pulls the Strings (Tahrir Graffitti)

Egypt: Military Pulls the Strings (Tahrir Graffitti)

Photograph by Juan Cole of graffiti, Tahrir Square, mid-May 2012, showing the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces as the puppeteer of Egyptian politics. (Since […]

Juan Cole

Syria
Syrian Baath Escalates, Uses Jets to Bomb Aleppo

Syrian Baath Escalates, Uses Jets to Bomb Aleppo

When I was interviewed by the BBC last week about rebel advances in Damascus, I cautioned that putting some armed bands in some neighborhoods would […]

Juan Cole

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Romney, and Aryan Racial Theory as a basis for Foreign Policy

Romney, and Aryan Racial Theory as a basis for Foreign Policy

I heard Mitt Romney’s tepid and unremarkable foreign policy speech, which had a lot of posturing but no substance, on Tuesday. I was taken aback […]

Juan Cole

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Dear Fox Cable News: Muhammad Morsi is not the new Prime Minister of Egypt (I know you don’t really care, just sayin’)

Dear Fox Cable News: Muhammad Morsi is not the new Prime Minister of Egypt (I know you don’t really care, just sayin’)

Egypt’s president, Muhammad Morsi, appointed a new prime minister today, Hisham Qandil. Given that Fox Cable News spends its time falsifying video of president Obama […]

Juan Cole

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