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The Hot Tub of Death? Bill Gates, Hurricane Melissa, and a Civilization Under Threat
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The Hot Tub of Death? Bill Gates, Hurricane Melissa, and a Civilization Under Threat

Juan Cole

As it turns out the high-tech sector that has produced so many billionaires isn’t pro-environment; instead simply pro-billionaire

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“Your Reward is Neither Here nor There!”  FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:24

“Your Reward is Neither Here nor There!” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:24

11/24/2025 By Juan Cole

Is Venezuela the New Iraq?

Is Venezuela the New Iraq?

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Germany Covers 52 percent of Electricity Consumption with Renewables so Far this Year

Germany Covers 52 percent of Electricity Consumption with Renewables so Far this Year

By Sören Amelang | – ( Clean Energy Wire) – Renewables covered more than half of Germany’s electricity consumption so far this year, according to […]

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Despite the Welcome Surge of Green Energy, the World is not on Track to keep Heating below 1.5C; We must do More

Despite the Welcome Surge of Green Energy, the World is not on Track to keep Heating below 1.5C; We must do More

By Pep Canadell, CSIRO | – It was a rare bit of good news on climate. The International Energy Agency this week released its latest […]

The Conversation

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Macron Pledges to end Coal by 2027,  to get to 60% Renewables by 2030, and to Ramp up French EV Production; Is it Enough?

Macron Pledges to end Coal by 2027, to get to 60% Renewables by 2030, and to Ramp up French EV Production; Is it Enough?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Kim Willsher reported this week at the Guardian on French President Emmanuel Macron’s announcement of a “French environmental plan” (l’écologie […]

Juan Cole

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Portuguese youths sue 33 European Governments at EU Court in largest Climate Case Ever

Portuguese youths sue 33 European Governments at EU Court in largest Climate Case Ever

By Marta Torre-Schaub, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne | – (The Conversation) – A little over three years ago, a group of Portuguese youths filed a […]

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At the Brink? Contemplating the Unimaginable Costs of a Nuclear War

At the Brink? Contemplating the Unimaginable Costs of a Nuclear War

( Tomdispatch.com) – Here’s something strange about our all-too-nuclearized planet: in my youth during the 1950s and early 1960s, the possibility of an obliterating nuclear […]

Andrea Mazzarino

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Sister Cities in Climate Crisis: New Orleans, Basra, Alexandria face Saltwater Intrusion, Fresh Water Shortage

Sister Cities in Climate Crisis: New Orleans, Basra, Alexandria face Saltwater Intrusion, Fresh Water Shortage

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Eric Zerkel and Angela Fritz at CNN report on the great saltwater intrusion that is threatening drinking water over the […]

Juan Cole

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Facebook’s News Retreat: A Death Knell for Independent Mideast Local News

Facebook’s News Retreat: A Death Knell for Independent Mideast Local News

( Globalvoices.org ) – Google and Meta, commonly referred to as the duopoly of the internet, dominate online access to information. In a recent showdown […]

Global Voices

Islamophobia
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 […]

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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 […]

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