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California: Fossil Gas use Declining, replaced by Solar Plus Megabatteries
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California: Fossil Gas use Declining, replaced by Solar Plus Megabatteries

Juan Cole

Two-thirds of California’s electricity retail sales are now generated by renewables.

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From Sykes-Picot to Silicon Valley: Why Middle East Fault Lines now run through American Tech

From Sykes-Picot to Silicon Valley: Why Middle East Fault Lines now run through American Tech

12/19/2025 By Jasim Al-Azzawi

“We cannot Negotiate with the Melting Point of Ice:” World’s Ice Sheets shed 640 bn. Tons in 12 Months

“We cannot Negotiate with the Melting Point of Ice:” World’s Ice Sheets shed 640 bn. Tons in 12 Months

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Egyptian Crowds Reject Mubarak Speech, Pledge Massive Friday Protests

Egyptian Crowds Reject Mubarak Speech, Pledge Massive Friday Protests

Having refused to jump, Mubarak was pushed out by the military on Friday. Was traveling, will update tonight. The roller coaster media ride on Thursday […]

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Egypt
Amr: Memo from Egypt: We Shall Not Be Moved

Amr: Memo from Egypt: We Shall Not Be Moved

Ahmed Amr writes from Cairo in a guest column for Informed Comment Memo from Egypt: We Shall Not Be Moved With every passing day, the […]

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Wael Ghonim vs. Barack Obama: Change we Can Believe in, Yes we Can

Wael Ghonim vs. Barack Obama: Change we Can Believe in, Yes we Can

Ooops, somehow an older draft got auto-published. This is the actual posting.

Juan Cole

Egypt
Wael Ghonim vs. Barack Obama: Change we Can Believe in, Yes we Can

Wael Ghonim vs. Barack Obama: Change we Can Believe in, Yes we Can

It is no secret that President Barack Obama has been in some regards a profound disappointment to the American Left, and his erratic and often […]

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Egypt
Egyptian Protests Swell in Response to Ghonim

Egyptian Protests Swell in Response to Ghonim

The crowds in Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo were again very large on Tuesday, and new networks of people joined in them, showing that the […]

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Egypt
Anzalone:  The Muslim Brotherhood Myth

Anzalone: The Muslim Brotherhood Myth

Christopher Anzalone writes in a guest column for Informed Comment: Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood & the Demonstrations: Fact vs. Fiction Since the start of mass popular […]

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Egypt
Cole on Egypt at Virtually Speaking

Cole on Egypt at Virtually Speaking

Here is part of an interview I did Monday evening with Susie Madrak via Virtually Speaking’s Blogtalk Radio: The full interview is here: Listen to […]

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Egypt
Egypt's Google Gandhi Released, Interviewed

Egypt’s Google Gandhi Released, Interviewed

The Egyptian military government, which is still running the country in accordance with martial law “emergency rules,” on Monday released from custody Wael Ghonim, the […]

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Egypt
Meyer:  Clinton’s Fear-Mongering about Egyptian ‘Chaos’

Meyer: Clinton’s Fear-Mongering about Egyptian ‘Chaos’

Carlyn Meyer writes in a guest editorial for Informed Comment The Egyptian Uprising is not a Revolution – “Chaos’ Fear a Cynical Red-Herring Over the […]

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