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Stephen Colbert and I:  The Tightening of Right-Wing Censorship
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Stephen Colbert and I: The Tightening of Right-Wing Censorship

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Paramount Global corporation has fired late night comedian Stephen Colbert even though Colbert dominated his time spot. Paramount owns […]

Turkey becomes the First to Censor Musk’s AI Chatbot Grok

Turkey becomes the First to Censor Musk’s AI Chatbot Grok

07/19/2025 By Arzu Geybullayeva

Green Energy and protecting Nature get the Thumbs up in Climate Change study in 68 Countries

Green Energy and protecting Nature get the Thumbs up in Climate Change study in 68 Countries

07/19/2025 By The Conversation

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DeSantis betrays Florida, Insists the Solution to Climate Change is Burning more Fossil Fuels

DeSantis betrays Florida, Insists the Solution to Climate Change is Burning more Fossil Fuels

  Craig Pittman   ( Florida Phoenix) – Back when dinosaurs ruled the earth and I was in high school, I was part of a […]

Florida Phoenix

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Climate Crisis:  How Weather ‘Blocks’ have Triggered more Extreme Heatwaves and Floods across Europe

Climate Crisis: How Weather ‘Blocks’ have Triggered more Extreme Heatwaves and Floods across Europe

Tim Woollings, University of Oxford | – (The Conversation) – On several occasions this summer, Europe’s weather seemed to get itself stuck, leading to prolonged […]

The Conversation

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ISIL Extremists Bomb Mosques in Pakistan, in Bid to outlaw Celebrating the Birth of the Prophet Muhammad (Yes)

ISIL Extremists Bomb Mosques in Pakistan, in Bid to outlaw Celebrating the Birth of the Prophet Muhammad (Yes)

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Muhammad Shahid at The National (Dubai) reports that there were two attacks on mosques in northern Pakistan on Friday. The […]

Juan Cole

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Germany Covers 52 percent of Electricity Consumption with Renewables so Far this Year

Germany Covers 52 percent of Electricity Consumption with Renewables so Far this Year

By Sören Amelang | – ( Clean Energy Wire) – Renewables covered more than half of Germany’s electricity consumption so far this year, according to […]

Clean Energy Wire

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Despite the Welcome Surge of Green Energy, the World is not on Track to keep Heating below 1.5C; We must do More

Despite the Welcome Surge of Green Energy, the World is not on Track to keep Heating below 1.5C; We must do More

By Pep Canadell, CSIRO | – It was a rare bit of good news on climate. The International Energy Agency this week released its latest […]

The Conversation

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Macron Pledges to end Coal by 2027,  to get to 60% Renewables by 2030, and to Ramp up French EV Production; Is it Enough?

Macron Pledges to end Coal by 2027, to get to 60% Renewables by 2030, and to Ramp up French EV Production; Is it Enough?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Kim Willsher reported this week at the Guardian on French President Emmanuel Macron’s announcement of a “French environmental plan” (l’écologie […]

Juan Cole

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Portuguese youths sue 33 European Governments at EU Court in largest Climate Case Ever

Portuguese youths sue 33 European Governments at EU Court in largest Climate Case Ever

By Marta Torre-Schaub, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne | – (The Conversation) – A little over three years ago, a group of Portuguese youths filed a […]

The Conversation

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At the Brink? Contemplating the Unimaginable Costs of a Nuclear War

At the Brink? Contemplating the Unimaginable Costs of a Nuclear War

( Tomdispatch.com) – Here’s something strange about our all-too-nuclearized planet: in my youth during the 1950s and early 1960s, the possibility of an obliterating nuclear […]

Andrea Mazzarino

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Sister Cities in Climate Crisis: New Orleans, Basra, Alexandria face Saltwater Intrusion, Fresh Water Shortage

Sister Cities in Climate Crisis: New Orleans, Basra, Alexandria face Saltwater Intrusion, Fresh Water Shortage

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Eric Zerkel and Angela Fritz at CNN report on the great saltwater intrusion that is threatening drinking water over the […]

Juan Cole

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