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2025 Climate Good News: Sustainables met all new Demand, EVs 25% of New Car Sales, Global Heating Projections fell to 2.8º C.
Climate Crisis

2025 Climate Good News: Sustainables met all new Demand, EVs 25% of New Car Sales, Global Heating Projections fell to 2.8º C.

Juan Cole

The most significant green energy good news stories we covered in 2025

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In the Global Race for Electric Vehicle Dominance, the US is Falling Way Behind

In the Global Race for Electric Vehicle Dominance, the US is Falling Way Behind

12/29/2025 By Yale Climate Connections

Syria’s incomplete security Transition has left gaps for Islamic State to Exploit

Syria’s incomplete security Transition has left gaps for Islamic State to Exploit

12/29/2025 By The Conversation

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Tunisian Ministers Resign En Masse from old Ruling Party

Tunisian Ministers Resign En Masse from old Ruling Party

Stung by continued protests against the Rally for Constitutional Democracy (RCD) of deposed president Zine el-Abedine Ben Ali, the members of that party in the […]

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India
Ala. Governor Apologizes to Muslims, Hindus, Jews

Ala. Governor Apologizes to Muslims, Hindus, Jews

Gov. Robert Bentley, the new governor of Alabama, created a firestorm of controversy on Monday when he said that if you are not a Christian […]

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GOP to Uninsured: Don’t Get Sick, if you Get Sick, Die Quickly: Part Deux

GOP to Uninsured: Don’t Get Sick, if you Get Sick, Die Quickly: Part Deux

In a mostly ‘symbolic’ gesture (i.e., the kind that uses the middle finger), the Republican-dominated House of Representatives voted to repeal the Affordable Health Care […]

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Top Ten Horrible Things done to Us by Outgoing Sen. Joe Lieberman

Top Ten Horrible Things done to Us by Outgoing Sen. Joe Lieberman

Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) announced Tuesday that he would not seek reelection in 2012, and progressive Americans breathed a sigh of collective relief. It is […]

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Tunisia
Juan Cole: Tunisia Uprising "Spearheaded by Labor Movements, by Internet Activists, by Rural Workers; It’s a Populist Revolution" (Democracy Now!)

Juan Cole: Tunisia Uprising “Spearheaded by Labor Movements, by Internet Activists, by Rural Workers; It’s a Populist Revolution” (Democracy Now!)

My interview on Tunisia on Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now!, which aired on Tuesday, is on the Web. A transcript is here. Here is the YouTube […]

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Tunisia
Tunisian Revolution Shakes, Inspires Middle East – Cole in Truthdig

Tunisian Revolution Shakes, Inspires Middle East – Cole in Truthdig

My column is out at Truthdig on the wider repercussions in the Middle East of the Tunisian events, “Tunisian Revolution Shakes, Inspires Middle East”. Excerpt: […]

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No News is Good News (for Them)

No News is Good News (for Them)

Does anyone doubt that if Tunisia’s president had been overthrown by an Islamic Revolution, there would have been 24/7 coverage of it in US media? […]

Juan Cole

Tunisia
New Tunisian Government Declares Total Liberty of Information, as the Opposition Demands more Change

New Tunisian Government Declares Total Liberty of Information, as the Opposition Demands more Change

The Constitutional Democratic Rally (RCD) managed to remain in control of Tunisia on Monday, with Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi announcing a national unity government in […]

Juan Cole

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King on Guns, War and Non-Violence as a Social Movement

King on Guns, War and Non-Violence as a Social Movement

‘ I have condemned any organizer of war, regardless of his rank or nationality. ‘ – Martin Luther King, Jr. ‘ All history teaches us […]

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