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State of Climate: Earth Hottest on Record again, as CO2 still Climbs and Glaciers Wilt
Climate Crisis

State of Climate: Earth Hottest on Record again, as CO2 still Climbs and Glaciers Wilt

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The American Meteorological Society has issued its annual climate report, this one summarizing changes in 2024 now that all the […]

New data shows No Kings was One of the largest Days of Protest in US history

New data shows No Kings was One of the largest Days of Protest in US history

08/17/2025 By Waging Nonviolence

Iran’s Nature is under Threat – here’s how better environmental Stewardship can save it

Iran’s Nature is under Threat – here’s how better environmental Stewardship can save it

08/17/2025 By The Conversation

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Libya
Allies Insist on Qaddafi departure

Allies Insist on Qaddafi departure

French President Nicolas Sarkozy, British Prime Minister David Cameron, and US President Barack Obama are publishing a joint op-ed in three newspapers on Friday in […]

Juan Cole

Libya
Free Libya plans Tripoli Uprising as Doha Conference Urges More Help to Civilians

Free Libya plans Tripoli Uprising as Doha Conference Urges More Help to Civilians

Al-Sharq al-Awsat reports in Arabic that the Transitional National Council in Benghazi says that it has a network of cells in Tripoli and plans to […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Mubaraks Arrested

Mubaraks Arrested

Al-Ahram is reporting in Arabic that Gamal and Ala Mubarak, the sons of deposed dictator Hosni Mubarak, have been arrested and will be moved from […]

Juan Cole

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Misrata's People under Siege

Misrata’s People under Siege

Misrata, a city of several hundred thousand people about 150 mi. east of the capital of Tripoli, is under, and for weeks has been under […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Sea Water for Honolulu Air Conditioning

Sea Water for Honolulu Air Conditioning

Here’s a neat, practical idea: Honolulu is going to draw in sea water for air conditioning. The system “will reduce Hawaii’s consumption of oil by […]

Juan Cole

Libya
Benghazi Rejects AU Plan to Leave Qaddafi in Power

Benghazi Rejects AU Plan to Leave Qaddafi in Power

Reuters reports that, as expected, the Transitional National Council in Benghazi has rejected the African Union proposal for a cease fire. Since Muammar Qaddafi’s forces […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Fukushima Core Failure a Level 7 (the Worst)

Fukushima Core Failure a Level 7 (the Worst)

It’s official. The Fukushima nuclear core failure is now more like what happened in Chernobyl than what happened a Three Mile Island, and is being […]

Juan Cole

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Romney Haunted by Ghosts of Romney Past

Romney Haunted by Ghosts of Romney Past

Mitt Romney Has announced another run for the White House. Here is his 1994 debate with Senator Teddy Kennedy, in which he talked about his […]

Juan Cole

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Wisconsin is not Broke, “Budget Crisis” a Fraud

Wisconsin is not Broke, “Budget Crisis” a Fraud

Wisconsin was not and is not “broke.” Its pension system gets a “gold star” for soundness, and it has no enduring structural shortfall in revenues. […]

Juan Cole

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