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Turning Point: Wind and Solar outstrip Fossil Fuels in Europe for First Time
Climate Crisis

Turning Point: Wind and Solar outstrip Fossil Fuels in Europe for First Time

Juan Cole

It is another clear piece of proof that humanity can get to carbon neutral by 2050 if it wants to.

Can American Youth Organize to save us from Despotism?

Can American Youth Organize to save us from Despotism?

02/04/2026 By Liz Theoharis

Inside the Challenges faced by Journalists covering Iran’s Protests

Inside the Challenges faced by Journalists covering Iran’s Protests

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Pakistan
Chaudhry:  Dis(re)membering \pä-ki-ˈstän\

Chaudhry: Dis(re)membering \pä-ki-ˈstän\

This is a guest essay by Kiren Aziz Chaudhry, University of California, Berkeley, one of our country’s foremost academic specialists in comparative politics.: “…for this […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Massive Offshore Windfarms to Power Green Germany

Massive Offshore Windfarms to Power Green Germany

Note to environmentalists: German utility corporations are building gigantic wind farms offshore that are expected to provide a quarter of Germany’s energy in coming decades. […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
NATO Troops Kill MP Relative; Anti-American Demonstrations Nangarhar Demand US Withdrawal

NATO Troops Kill MP Relative; Anti-American Demonstrations Nangarhar Demand US Withdrawal

NATO forces raided the home in Nangarhar of Afghan parliamentarian Safia Siddiqi Wednesday night, in the course of which they killed her brother-in-law. In response, […]

Juan Cole

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Tehran Police Chief Cracks down on Women with Sun Tans

Tehran Police Chief Cracks down on Women with Sun Tans

The Telegraph reports that the police chief of the Iranian capital, Tehran, Brig Hossein Sajediniya, has called for a crackdown on fashionable women as part […]

Juan Cole

Energy
The Horrible Gulf Oil Spill Reality versus the Energy Tomorrow Pantsuit

The Horrible Gulf Oil Spill Reality versus the Energy Tomorrow Pantsuit

Let us contrast reality to the fantasy that Big Oil projects for us on our television screens. I have long despised the character of the […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Allawi’s Secularists call for Caretaker Gov’t, New Elections

Allawi’s Secularists call for Caretaker Gov’t, New Elections

The London pan-Arab daily al-Hayat [Life] reports in Arabic that the appeals court will issue its judgment on the coming Monday, May 3, concerning whether […]

Juan Cole

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3 Killed in Qandahar Bombing as the UNO leaves; South Asia now Most Dangerous

3 Killed in Qandahar Bombing as the UNO leaves; South Asia now Most Dangerous

On Tuesday, insurgents bombed an Afghan security company, Homayun at Qandahar, wounding at least 38 of them. Three persons were killed. Homayun provides security services […]

Juan Cole

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Disqualifications of ‘pro-Baathists’ throw Iraq into Political Uncertainty

Disqualifications of ‘pro-Baathists’ throw Iraq into Political Uncertainty

McClatchy/ CSM reporters Jane Arraf and Mohammed al-Dulaimy cover the decision of an appeals court to uphold the disqualification of 52 Iraqi politicians. The exclusion […]

Juan Cole

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Apartheid in Israel, Showing Papers in Arizona

Apartheid in Israel, Showing Papers in Arizona

Jonathan Cook gives concrete examples of the various forms of Apartheid practiced in Israel by Jews toward Palestinian-Israelis and Palestinians. An important recent policy announcement […]

Juan Cole

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