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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

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What is an Abaya − and why does it cause such Controversy in France? A scholar of European Studies Explains

What is an Abaya − and why does it cause such Controversy in France? A scholar of European Studies Explains

By Armin Langer, University of Florida | – (The Conversation) – Worn by some Muslim women, an abaya is a long, loose-fitting, robelike garment that […]

The Conversation

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Taliban in Tel Aviv:  Israel Joins Middle East in Clashing over Gender Segregation, Women's rights in Public Sphere

Taliban in Tel Aviv: Israel Joins Middle East in Clashing over Gender Segregation, Women’s rights in Public Sphere

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Haaretz reports that at public prayers for Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, at Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv on […]

Juan Cole

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Iraqis Tortured by US at Abu Ghraib have Never Received Justice or Compensation

Iraqis Tortured by US at Abu Ghraib have Never Received Justice or Compensation

The US government has apparently failed to provide compensation or other redress to Iraqis who suffered torture and other abuse by US forces at Abu […]

Human Rights Watch

Coal
Our Move to Renewables is only the Latest of Many Energy Transitions; We can do it Again

Our Move to Renewables is only the Latest of Many Energy Transitions; We can do it Again

By Liz Conor, La Trobe University | – In 2022, the burning of fossil fuels provided 82% of the world’s energy. In 2000, it was […]

The Conversation

Education
From Education to Incarceration

From Education to Incarceration

By Tamar Sarai | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Not long after moving to Topeka, Kansas, in the early 1980s, community organizer Curtis Pitts learned […]

Tomdispatch

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Iran's Denials and Delusions at the United Nations

Iran’s Denials and Delusions at the United Nations

Newark, Del. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Frankly, it was hard to watch last weekend’s interview of Farid Zakaria of CNN with Iran’s current […]

Fariba Amini

Israel/ Palestine
How Israel's war on Palestinian History turned into a War on UNESCO

How Israel’s war on Palestinian History turned into a War on UNESCO

by Dr Ramzy Baroud ( Middle East Monitor ) – Jericho does not belong to the Palestinians alone. It belongs to the whole of humanity. […]

Ramzy Baroud

Iraq
How Popular Music Videos encouraged Iraqi Shiites to Resist ISIL Terrorism

How Popular Music Videos encouraged Iraqi Shiites to Resist ISIL Terrorism

By Benjamin Isakhan, Deakin University; and Ali Akbar, The University of Melbourne | – Almost a decade ago, the Sunni jihadist network known as the […]

The Conversation

Australia
In First, Rooftop Solar Alone provides 101% of South Australia's Electricity Demand

In First, Rooftop Solar Alone provides 101% of South Australia’s Electricity Demand

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Giles Parkinson at RenewEconomy in Australia reports that rooftop solar briefly generated 101% of South Australia’s electricity demand on Saturday […]

Juan Cole

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