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Global Solar skyrockets 64% in H1, as Trump SecEnergy Wright gets Schooled
Climate Crisis

Global Solar skyrockets 64% in H1, as Trump SecEnergy Wright gets Schooled

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Ember energy consultancy reports that in the first half of 2025, the world put in 380 gigawatts of new […]

“But come with old Khayyam and leave the Lot,” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:9

“But come with old Khayyam and leave the Lot,” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:9

09/04/2025 By Juan Cole

The full Seizure of Gaza: A Path toward Isolation and Collapse

The full Seizure of Gaza: A Path toward Isolation and Collapse

09/04/2025 By Middle East Monitor

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Israel's Colonial Revenge Genocide in Gaza is only the latest in a Long History of such Massacres

Israel’s Colonial Revenge Genocide in Gaza is only the latest in a Long History of such Massacres

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – I find peculiar the conviction of so many politicians in Europe and North America, not to mention Israel itself, that […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Breaking Free from the Cycle of Violence: The Reality of the Gaza Conflict

Breaking Free from the Cycle of Violence: The Reality of the Gaza Conflict

Al-Rimal neighbourhood in Gaza on Oct 10, 2023 [Mohammed Asad/Middle East Monitor] by Omer Carullah Sevim (Middle East Monitor ) – At the start of […]

Middle East Monitor

Eastern Europe
Israel-Gaza Conflict: An Opportunity for Putin in Ukraine while the World is Distracted

Israel-Gaza Conflict: An Opportunity for Putin in Ukraine while the World is Distracted

By Robert M. Dover, University of Hull | – Time is an ally of Russia in the Ukrainian conflict. Russia needs to reduce its rate […]

The Conversation

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Israel in Palestinian Gaza: Revenge is more satisfying than Peace

Israel in Palestinian Gaza: Revenge is more satisfying than Peace

(Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Over the years, the United States has endowed Israel with more than $150 billion in assistance, making it possible […]

Richard Forer

Africa
Suffering in the Shadows: Humanitarian Calamities That Aren’t on the World’s Agenda

Suffering in the Shadows: Humanitarian Calamities That Aren’t on the World’s Agenda

By Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox ( Tomdispatch.com) – Various versions of the aphorism “War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography” have been […]

Tomdispatch

Israel/ Palestine
The Gaza Strip: Why the History of this Densely Populated Enclave is Key to understanding the Current Conflict

The Gaza Strip: Why the History of this Densely Populated Enclave is Key to understanding the Current Conflict

By Maha Nassar, University of Arizona | – (The Conversation) – The focus on conflict in the Middle East has again returned to the Gaza […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
We can still avoid “Catastrophic Inundation” if we Slash Carbon Pollution – Michael E. Mann’s “Our Fragile Moment”

We can still avoid “Catastrophic Inundation” if we Slash Carbon Pollution – Michael E. Mann’s “Our Fragile Moment”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Informed Comment is pleased to present below an interview with climate scientist Michael E. Mann, Presidential Distinguished Professor of Earth […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
“We all just evaporate:” Extreme Heat Overwhelms Phoenix’s Unhoused Community

“We all just evaporate:” Extreme Heat Overwhelms Phoenix’s Unhoused Community

Deanna Pistono/Cronkite News ( Cronkite News ) – PHOENIX – Near the intersection of S. 11th Avenue and W. Jefferson Street in Phoenix, the heat […]

Cronkite News Arizona PBS

Israel/ Palestine
Why the Al-Aqsa Mosque Complex is Important to the Current Palestinian-Israeli Clashes

Why the Al-Aqsa Mosque Complex is Important to the Current Palestinian-Israeli Clashes

By Ken Chitwood, University of Southern California | – As a scholar of global Islam, I teach an introduction to Islam course and include a […]

The Conversation

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