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Global Battle Royale at COP30 between Fossil Fuel Producers and Green Energy Advocates
Climate Crisis

Global Battle Royale at COP30 between Fossil Fuel Producers and Green Energy Advocates

Juan Cole

A bloc is attempting to deep-six the pledge made at COP28 to “transition away from fossil fuels.”

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Protesting Canada’s Detention of Former UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falk over Palestine Rights Advocacy

Protesting Canada’s Detention of Former UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falk over Palestine Rights Advocacy

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Trump using Jews to Ban Free Speech: The Ultimate in Antisemitism

Trump using Jews to Ban Free Speech: The Ultimate in Antisemitism

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Senate Bill Allows Arrest of Americans by Military Anywhere

Senate Bill Allows Arrest of Americans by Military Anywhere

The Senate passed a war expenses appropriation bill on Thursday that appears to hold out the possibility that the military could be ordered to arrest […]

Juan Cole

Tomgram: Engelhardt, Into the Whirlwind

Tomgram: Engelhardt, Into the Whirlwind

He was 22, a corporal in the Marines from Preston, Iowa, a “city” incorporated in 1890 with a present population of 949.  He died in a hospital in Germany of “wounds received from an explosive device while on patrol in Helm…

Tom Engelhardt

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Britain Closes Tehran Embassy

Britain Closes Tehran Embassy

The British government has closed its embassy in Tehran and given Iranian diplomats two days to depart the UK. London has not severed diplomatic relations […]

Juan Cole

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Iranian Students attack British Embassy

Iranian Students attack British Embassy

Persons portraying themselves as angry Iranian students occupied the yard and foyer of the British embassy in Tehran on Tuesday, as well as a smaller […]

Juan Cole

Bahrain
Letter on Bahrain to Secretary Clinton

Letter on Bahrain to Secretary Clinton

The Project on Middle Esst Democracy has written a letter to Secretary of State Clinton on the Bahrain crisis, which I co-signed. It asks the […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Democratic Developments in the Arab Upheavals

Democratic Developments in the Arab Upheavals

The Arab upheavals of 2011 have been very different from one another across countries, but have in common a language of parliamentary democracy as the […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Assassinating Dreams in Egypt: Amr

Assassinating Dreams in Egypt: Amr

Ahmed Amr writes in a guest op-ed for Informed Comment: Nostalgia for more innocent times is a comforting refuge when hope is scarce. last week, […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Did the Muslim Brotherhood Threaten to Kill “All Jews”?

Did the Muslim Brotherhood Threaten to Kill “All Jews”?

The Muslim Brotherhood and other religious parties in Egypt (including the Salafis and the Gama’a al-Islamiya) held a rally at al-Husayn Square in Cairo last […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Empire by the Numbers

Empire by the Numbers

Number of Pakistani troops killed at checkpoint Saturday by a US helicopter raid from Afghanistan: 25 Number of NATO supply trucks allowed to cross from […]

Juan Cole

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