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2025 Climate Good News: Sustainables met all new Demand, EVs 25% of New Car Sales, Global Heating Projections fell to 2.8º C.
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2025 Climate Good News: Sustainables met all new Demand, EVs 25% of New Car Sales, Global Heating Projections fell to 2.8º C.

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The most significant green energy good news stories we covered in 2025

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In the Global Race for Electric Vehicle Dominance, the US is Falling Way Behind

In the Global Race for Electric Vehicle Dominance, the US is Falling Way Behind

12/29/2025 By Yale Climate Connections

Syria’s incomplete security Transition has left gaps for Islamic State to Exploit

Syria’s incomplete security Transition has left gaps for Islamic State to Exploit

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Economy in Free Fall, Politics of Personal Destruction

Economy in Free Fall, Politics of Personal Destruction

Graph of world markets in free fall. Obama predicted the Republican smear strategy against him last July, in every detail. They will try to paint […]

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GI Killed; Sadrist Politician Assassinated

GI Killed; Sadrist Politician Assassinated

A US GI was killed on Tuesday in Mosul while answering a distress call Assailants killed Sadrist parliamentarian Salih al-`Ukayli with a roadside bomb near […]

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Suicide Bomber Kills 11 in Baquba; Turks to Continue Strikes on Iraq

Suicide Bomber Kills 11 in Baquba; Turks to Continue Strikes on Iraq

A female suicide bomber detonated her belt bomb on Wednesday near some Iraqi army humvees in front of a courthouse in Baquba, killing at least […]

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Reprint Edn.: Barack Hussein Obama, Omar Bradley, Benjamin Franklin and other Semitically Named American Heroes

Reprint Edn.: Barack Hussein Obama, Omar Bradley, Benjamin Franklin and other Semitically Named American Heroes

The below is reprinted from From February 27, 2008, because the [non-] issue is coming back up. At Cincinnati, Bill Cunningham, according to the LAT, […]

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Unreal Debate

Unreal Debate

In the real world of political ads, McCain and his surrogates are shouting ugly insults at Barack Obama. He is accused of saying that US […]

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Factcheck: McCain on Taliban

Factcheck: McCain on Taliban

Fact checking the debate: ‘MCCAIN: Now, let me just go back with you very briefly. We drove the Russians out with — the Afghan freedom […]

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Turkish Planes Pound Iraqi North; Condi: Iraq is Hard

Turkish Planes Pound Iraqi North; Condi: Iraq is Hard

Turkish war planes pounded northern Iraq on Monday, seeking to punish members of the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) who are implicated in bombings and other […]

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McCain in 1992: Christianity and Oil Drive US Wars in Middle East

McCain in 1992: Christianity and Oil Drive US Wars in Middle East

From “Larry King Live,” August 3, 1992: McCain gave two reasons for US military involvement in the Middle East. We are a “Judeo-Christian nation” [so […]

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McCain 1991: Unwise for US to Invade Iraq

McCain 1991: Unwise for US to Invade Iraq

On CNN’s Larry King Live, April 23, 1991, Sen. John McCain opposed invading Iraq to overthrow Saddam Hussein on the grounds that 1) we’d turn […]

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