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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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Selling like Hotcakes:  1 mn EVs sold in US during Past Year --  which is Why UAW Workers deserve Green New Deal

Selling like Hotcakes: 1 mn EVs sold in US during Past Year — which is Why UAW Workers deserve Green New Deal

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A million purely battery-electric vehicles have been sold in the US during the past year, according to David Reichmuth at […]

Juan Cole

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Climate Change is our Biggest Security Threat: Our Federal Budget Should Reflect That

Climate Change is our Biggest Security Threat: Our Federal Budget Should Reflect That

By Lindsay Koshgarian, Alliyah Lusuegro ( Otherwords.org ) – As the hottest summer in human history approached its end, tens of thousands of climate marchers […]

OtherWords

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Climate Change Floods: Greece and Libya Dwarf Germany's 2021 Disaster, Must Spur Action say Climate Researchers

Climate Change Floods: Greece and Libya Dwarf Germany’s 2021 Disaster, Must Spur Action say Climate Researchers

By Benjamin Wehrmann | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – The record rainfalls triggering deadly floods in Libya and Greece dwarf the precipitation that […]

Clean Energy Wire

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Israel's Netanyahu at UN Wipes Palestinians off the Map, Menaces Iran with "Credible Nuclear Threat"

Israel’s Netanyahu at UN Wipes Palestinians off the Map, Menaces Iran with “Credible Nuclear Threat”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu seems to love waving around cartoonish props at the annual United Nations General Assembly meeting. […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Saudi Crown Prince Confirms Death Sentence for Tweets, Blames “Bad Laws”

Saudi Crown Prince Confirms Death Sentence for Tweets, Blames “Bad Laws”

Joey Shea Researcher, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates   @joey_shea Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, known as MBS, has confirmed that retired teacher Muhammed […]

Human Rights Watch

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Clarence Thomas Secretly Helped Raise Money for Koch Network, Which has Cases before the Court

Clarence Thomas Secretly Helped Raise Money for Koch Network, Which has Cases before the Court

By Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott and Alex Mierjeski | – ( ProPublica ) – Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ decadeslong friendship with real estate tycoon […]

ProPublica

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The Era of Rupert Murdoch, a Blight on our Heating Planet and a Fomenter of War and Racial Hatreds, is Passing

The Era of Rupert Murdoch, a Blight on our Heating Planet and a Fomenter of War and Racial Hatreds, is Passing

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Australian-American press lord Rupert Murdoch, 92, announced Thursday that he would step down as the CEO of both News Corp […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Climate Change: Was the freak ‘Medicane’ Storm that devastated Libya a Glimpse of North Africa’s Future?

Climate Change: Was the freak ‘Medicane’ Storm that devastated Libya a Glimpse of North Africa’s Future?

By Mike Rogerson, Northumbria University, Newcastle; Belkasem Alkaryani, University of Tobruk and Mahjoor Lone, Northumbria University, Newcastle | – Storm Daniel landed on the Libyan […]

The Conversation

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Getting old in America is another Lonely Game of Haves and Have-Nots; It doesn’t have to be this Way

Getting old in America is another Lonely Game of Haves and Have-Nots; It doesn’t have to be this Way

(Tomdispatch.com ) – For twelve years starting in 1982, my partner and I in San Francisco joined with two friends in Seattle to produce Lesbian […]

Rebecca Gordon

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Gaza: Israel is killing far more Civilians than is typical for modern Wars

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