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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

08/25/2025 By F. Douglas Stephenson

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Americans in Pain: Confronting the Phantom Limbs of America’s Foreign Wars

Americans in Pain: Confronting the Phantom Limbs of America’s Foreign Wars

( Tomdispatch.com ) – America’s War on Terror, launched in response to the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, […]

Andrea Mazzarino

Gay rights
Anti-Trans Politicians Are Following the Nazi Playbook

Anti-Trans Politicians Are Following the Nazi Playbook

By Mitchell Zimmerman ( Otherwords ) – The 1920s were both good and bad times for the Jews of Germany. They’d been granted the same […]

OtherWords

Democratic Party
With Two Damaging Trump Trials during the Campaign, did Joe Biden just become a Shoo-in in 2024?

With Two Damaging Trump Trials during the Campaign, did Joe Biden just become a Shoo-in in 2024?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump’s two indictments will likely throw the 2024 election to Joe Biden. Assuming Biden remains in good health and there […]

Juan Cole

Far Right
Hate Groups' Political Influence Growing: Southern Poverty Law Center

Hate Groups’ Political Influence Growing: Southern Poverty Law Center

By: Ashley Murray – J   ( Minnesota Reformer) – WASHINGTON — More than 1,200 hate and anti-government extremist groups were active across the United […]

Minnesota Reformer

Israel/ Palestine
Official Report: Palestinian-Israelis Pay higher Interest Rates on Loans in Israel than Jews

Official Report: Palestinian-Israelis Pay higher Interest Rates on Loans in Israel than Jews

( Middle East Monitor ) – Arab citizens in Israel pay higher interest rates on bank loans than Jews, Israel’s Hebrew newspaper Maariv reported on […]

Middle East Monitor

Batteries
Using electric water Heaters to store renewable Energy could do the work of 2 million home Batteries – and save us Billions

Using electric water Heaters to store renewable Energy could do the work of 2 million home Batteries – and save us Billions

By David Roche, University of Technology Sydney | – Australia’s energy transition is well under way. Some 3 million households have rooftop solar and sales […]

The Conversation

African-Americans
Top 3 Crimes Trump should have been Indicted for besides Mishandling Documents

Top 3 Crimes Trump should have been Indicted for besides Mishandling Documents

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Although the saga of Trump’s mishandling of classified documents, as revealed in the 38-count indictment, is shocking to anyone who […]

Juan Cole

Green Energy
Germany gets 1/3 of its Electricity from Wind, 48% from Renewables in First Quarter

Germany gets 1/3 of its Electricity from Wind, 48% from Renewables in First Quarter

( Clean Energy Wire ) – Wind power has become Germany’s most important electricity source again in the first quarter of 2023, according to an […]

Clean Energy Wire

China
Sudan conflict: how China and Russia are involved and the differences between them

Sudan conflict: how China and Russia are involved and the differences between them

By Marcel Plichta, University of St Andrews and Mateja Peter, University of St Andrews | – As clashes continue between the Sudanese military and rapid […]

The Conversation

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