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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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Israel/ Palestine
Digital Data collected by Israel's Electronic Wolves helps to Terrorise the Palestinians

Digital Data collected by Israel’s Electronic Wolves helps to Terrorise the Palestinians

By Basem Khandakji | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – An Amnesty International report published this month revealed details of the latest systems used […]

Middle East Monitor

Elections
Pro-Islam Turkish President Erdoğan Campaigned on Space Flight and New EV, but he Hasn't Beaten Inflation

Pro-Islam Turkish President Erdoğan Campaigned on Space Flight and New EV, but he Hasn’t Beaten Inflation

By Merve Sancak, Loughborough University | – President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has ruled Turkey for the last 21 years. In the first few terms of […]

The Conversation

Authoritarianism
United Nations calls for Protection of Climate Activists' Civil Disobedience after German Crackdown on 'Last Generation' as 'Criminal'

United Nations calls for Protection of Climate Activists’ Civil Disobedience after German Crackdown on ‘Last Generation’ as ‘Criminal’

By Sören Amelang | – dpa / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The UN has highlighted the importance of climate activists and their right to hold demonstrations […]

Clean Energy Wire

Climate Crisis
“Politicizing the Weather:” Florida’s DeSantis doesn’t Understand that Carbon Emissions make Hurricanes more Intense, not More Frequent

“Politicizing the Weather:” Florida’s DeSantis doesn’t Understand that Carbon Emissions make Hurricanes more Intense, not More Frequent

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – After his historic meltdown of a presidential campaign announcement with notorious internet troll Elon Musk on a glitchy “Twitter Spaces,” […]

Juan Cole

Death Penalty
"Don't Let them Kill Us:" How the Ayatollahs' Iran became the Execution Capital of the World

“Don’t Let them Kill Us:” How the Ayatollahs’ Iran became the Execution Capital of the World

Newark, Delaware (Special to Informed Comment) – Under the previous Iranian Penal Code or IPC, which was in force until 2013, the charge of mohareb, “Waging […]

Fariba Amini

Sudan
Sudan Conflict: Why a Humanitarian Truce is Proving so hard to Secure – and What that means for People on the Ground

Sudan Conflict: Why a Humanitarian Truce is Proving so hard to Secure – and What that means for People on the Ground

By Nonhlanhla Dube, Lancaster University | – Reports out of Sudan of continuing violence suggest that the seven-day ceasefire organised during talks in Jeddah – […]

The Conversation

Human Rights
Torture, American Style;  and the Cover-UP

Torture, American Style; and the Cover-UP

( Tomdispatch.com ) – In the Blindman’s Buff variation of tag, a child designated as “It” is tasked with tapping another child while wearing a blindfold. […]

Karen J. Greenberg

Climate Crisis
Global Heating could make it too Hot for a Third of Humanity by 2080 – 2100

Global Heating could make it too Hot for a Third of Humanity by 2080 – 2100

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A lot of studies have focused on the economic cost of global heating, caused by humans burning fossil fuels. A […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Confronting Energy Poverty among Palestinians in Israeli-Besieged Gaza

Confronting Energy Poverty among Palestinians in Israeli-Besieged Gaza

by Asmaa Abu Mezied  ( Al-Shabaka ) – Palestinians in Gaza are suffering from a worsening energy crisis due to the Israeli regime’s ongoing siege. As […]

Al-Shabaka

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