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When even Saudi Arabia Jumps into Solar and Wind Power, You know Change is Here
Climate Crisis

When even Saudi Arabia Jumps into Solar and Wind Power, You know Change is Here

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Saudi Arabia’s massive oil deposits and its 9.53 million barrels per day (bpd) of petroleum production make it an enormous […]

How Europe is managing Guilt over Gaza: The Politics of moral Cleansing

How Europe is managing Guilt over Gaza: The Politics of moral Cleansing

08/25/2025 By Global Voices

Trump Junk: Won’t Enforce Rules for Short-Term Junk Health Insurance Plans

Trump Junk: Won’t Enforce Rules for Short-Term Junk Health Insurance Plans

08/25/2025 By F. Douglas Stephenson

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Iraq
Top Ways Dan Senor Could have avoided offending Iraqi Muslims

Top Ways Dan Senor Could have avoided offending Iraqi Muslims

Former Bush administration spokesman in Iraq Dan Senor is against the building of a Sufi Muslim community center in lower Manhattan. He says he is […]

Juan Cole

Environment
Dear Climate Change Deniers

Dear Climate Change Deniers

Dear Climate Change Deniers: This summer, Russia, a former icebox, is so hot that it is actually on fire. A third of Pakistan is affected […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Book of the Day:  Midnight on the Mavi Marmara

Book of the Day: Midnight on the Mavi Marmara

Book of the Day: Midnight on the Mavi Marmara: The Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and How It Changed the Course of the Israel/Palestine […]

Juan Cole

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An Israeli Attack on Iran would reduce Barack Obama to a One-Term President

An Israeli Attack on Iran would reduce Barack Obama to a One-Term President

What should a poor warmongering Neoconservative do? This political grouping includes WASPS such as former CIA director James Woolsey and former UN ambassor John Bolton, […]

Juan Cole

Pakistan
500,000 evacuated from Jacobabad as Floodwaters head toward Sindh

500,000 evacuated from Jacobabad as Floodwaters head toward Sindh

As Pakistan’s massive flooding continues, Some 500,000 people have been forced to evacuate the Sindhi city of Jacobabad, suddenly finding themselves homeless. Ordinarily this sort […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Kurdish General Again Insubordinate, Angles for US to Remain in Iraq

Kurdish General Again Insubordinate, Angles for US to Remain in Iraq

The public statement by Iraqi chief of staff Lt. General Babakr Zebari , at a defense conference that the Iraqi army would not be ready […]

Juan Cole

Pakistan
6 Million Pakistanis need Immediate Aid as 1/3 of Country is Submerged

6 Million Pakistanis need Immediate Aid as 1/3 of Country is Submerged

I can barely believe the words I am writing are not a nightmare from which I will soon wake up. A third of Pakistan is […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Portugal’s Green Energy Revolution and the true Cost of Gas, Coal and Oil

Portugal’s Green Energy Revolution and the true Cost of Gas, Coal and Oil

Don’t miss Elisabeth Rosenthal’s important and well-written piece at NYT on Portugal’s energy policy. With remarkable clarity given the potentially technical subject matter, she explains […]

Juan Cole

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Cutting off Aid to the Lebanese Army Hurts US Interests

Cutting off Aid to the Lebanese Army Hurts US Interests

The Israel lobby in the US Congress is trying to hold up US military assistance to Lebanon after last week’s exchange of fire at the […]

Juan Cole

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