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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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Peace for Ukraine Courtesy of China?  Another Step in Beijing’s Rise to Global Power

Peace for Ukraine Courtesy of China? Another Step in Beijing’s Rise to Global Power

( Tomdispatch.com ) – All wars do end, usually thanks to a negotiated peace agreement. Consider that a fundamental historical fact, even if it seems […]

Alfred W. McCoy

Democracy
Can Lebanon Finally elect a President who will Lead it out of its Economic and Political Morass?

Can Lebanon Finally elect a President who will Lead it out of its Economic and Political Morass?

By Habib Badawi Beirut (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Lebanon may be a small country of some four million citizens with a land area […]

Habib Badawi

Israel/ Palestine
Permanent Apartheid in Palestine: This is why Israel wants to reactivate E1 Plan

Permanent Apartheid in Palestine: This is why Israel wants to reactivate E1 Plan

Dr Ramzy Baroud RamzyBaroud   ( Middle East Monitor ) – The Israeli government is at it again, actively discussing the construction of thousands of […]

Ramzy Baroud

Afghanistan
It’s Not Just Iran: Conflict over Water Resources is on the Rise as Climate Crisis Grows

It’s Not Just Iran: Conflict over Water Resources is on the Rise as Climate Crisis Grows

By Laureen Fagan ( Sustainability Times ) – The clash over water rights led to fighting between Iran and Afghanistan recently, in the latest battle […]

Sustainability Times

Climate Crisis
Greenhouse Gas Emissions are at an all-time High and Earth is Heating up Faster Than Ever

Greenhouse Gas Emissions are at an all-time High and Earth is Heating up Faster Than Ever

By Piers Forster, University of Leeds | – Greenhouse gas emissions are at an all-time high, with yearly emissions equivalent to 54 billion tonnes of […]

The Conversation

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Mohammed Altamimi, Age 2: The Latest Victim of Israeli Apartheid Toward Palestinians

Mohammed Altamimi, Age 2: The Latest Victim of Israeli Apartheid Toward Palestinians

Belfast (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Like any other toddler in the world, two and a half years old Palestinian toddler Mohammed Altamimi was […]

Mohammed Samaana

Egypt
Jada Pinkett Smith's Black Cleopatra Stirred Controversy, but What about the Forgotten Queens of Ancient Nubia?

Jada Pinkett Smith’s Black Cleopatra Stirred Controversy, but What about the Forgotten Queens of Ancient Nubia?

By Yasmin Moll, University of Michigan | – Jada Pinkett Smith’s new Netflix documentary series on Cleopatra aims to spotlight powerful African queens. “We don’t […]

The Conversation

Health Care
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

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