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California Strikes Back: Trump Poked the Golden Bear
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California Strikes Back: Trump Poked the Golden Bear

H. Scott Prosterman

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – California Governor Gavin Newsom assumed the mantle of national leadership when he announced California’s “Election Rigging Response […]

Now the New Year is Reviving old Desires: FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:4

Now the New Year is Reviving old Desires: FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:4

08/18/2025 By Juan Cole

The West’s Long Struggle Against Genocide Prevention

The West’s Long Struggle Against Genocide Prevention

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Mahsa Amini: A Year into the Protest Movement in Iran, this is What's Changed

Mahsa Amini: A Year into the Protest Movement in Iran, this is What’s Changed

Mahsa Amini: a year into the protest movement in Iran, this is what’s changed By Afshin Shahi, Keele University | = Iran’s rulers continue to […]

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Libya's Climate Disaster Shows we Can't afford Erratic leaders Like Trump and Haftar any More

Libya’s Climate Disaster Shows we Can’t afford Erratic leaders Like Trump and Haftar any More

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – For the past two weeks the Mediterranean has been reeling from the massive devastation wrought regionally by Hurricane Daniel, the […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
How Mahsa Amini’s Death became a Rallying Call for Thousands of Iranians

How Mahsa Amini’s Death became a Rallying Call for Thousands of Iranians

By Michael Scollon and Fereshteh Ghazi A combo photo shows Mahsa Amini (left) in the hospital on September 16, 2022, and her father and grandmother […]

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Summer 2023's Climate-Driven Record-Breaking heat is not 'The New Normal,' since the abnormalities will Keep on Coming

Summer 2023’s Climate-Driven Record-Breaking heat is not ‘The New Normal,’ since the abnormalities will Keep on Coming

Scott Denning, Colorado State University | – Summer 2023 has been the hottest on record by a huge margin. Hundreds of millions of people suffered […]

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Expansion of BRICS, the anti-G7, in the Mideast: Is the Oil Gulf no Longer Pax Americana?

Expansion of BRICS, the anti-G7, in the Mideast: Is the Oil Gulf no Longer Pax Americana?

Exeter (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – BRICS, a group of five developing countries that include China, Russia, and India, has invited another six countries […]

Hamdullah Baycar

Climate Crisis
Climate Crisis: UN Launches Flash Appeal to Aid 250,000 Libyans hit by Devastating Floods

Climate Crisis: UN Launches Flash Appeal to Aid 250,000 Libyans hit by Devastating Floods

( UN News ) – Disaster struck on Sunday when torrential rains from Storm Daniel led two dams close to the now devastated port city […]

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How Zinc-Ion Batteries may solve our Renewable Energy Storage Problem

How Zinc-Ion Batteries may solve our Renewable Energy Storage Problem

By Storm William D Gourley, McMaster University and Drew Higgins, McMaster University | – (The Conversation) – Hotter summers, drier forests, rising waters: climate change […]

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BRICS
As US drags out Israel Normalization Deal with Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Drifts toward China

As US drags out Israel Normalization Deal with Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Drifts toward China

Cairo (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – With the announcement of the expansion of the BRICS bloc many were surprised to see traditional US allies […]

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Young Montanans are fighting Climate Change in Court for all our Sakes

Young Montanans are fighting Climate Change in Court for all our Sakes

By Stan Cox | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – The wording in Article IX, Section 1, of Montana’s constitution couldn’t be clearer: “The state and […]

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