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State of Climate: Earth Hottest on Record again, as CO2 still Climbs and Glaciers Wilt
Climate Crisis

State of Climate: Earth Hottest on Record again, as CO2 still Climbs and Glaciers Wilt

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The American Meteorological Society has issued its annual climate report, this one summarizing changes in 2024 now that all the […]

New data shows No Kings was One of the largest Days of Protest in US history

New data shows No Kings was One of the largest Days of Protest in US history

08/17/2025 By Waging Nonviolence

Iran’s Nature is under Threat – here’s how better environmental Stewardship can save it

Iran’s Nature is under Threat – here’s how better environmental Stewardship can save it

08/17/2025 By The Conversation

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Abbasid Empire
Scientists prove Extensive Viking Silver Trade with Abbasid Empire from British Silver Hoard

Scientists prove Extensive Viking Silver Trade with Abbasid Empire from British Silver Hoard

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Northeastern England fell to the Vikings in 865, and they held it for several decades. They not only had what […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Saudi Arabia: Executions Surge in bid to Crush Dissent (HRW)

Saudi Arabia: Executions Surge in bid to Crush Dissent (HRW)

Human Rights Watch – (Beirut) – Saudi authorities have been carrying out an unprecedented surge in executions in 2025 without apparent due process, Human Rights […]

Human Rights Watch

Nuclear weapons
What Do We Forget When We Remember Hiroshima?

What Do We Forget When We Remember Hiroshima?

Eighty Years of Talking Peace and Preparing for Nuclear War

Tomdispatch

China
Trump to Xi: ‘Hold our Beer’ – EVs majority of Chinese New Car Sales, as Exports rocket 74%

Trump to Xi: ‘Hold our Beer’ – EVs majority of Chinese New Car Sales, as Exports rocket 74%

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Car News China reports that in the first half of 2025, consumers in that country bought 10,891,000 passenger vehicles. But […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Iran’s President Says Rebuilding Nuclear Sites Futile Without Talks With Washington

Iran’s President Says Rebuilding Nuclear Sites Futile Without Talks With Washington

( RFE / RL ) – Iranian President Masud Pezeshkian has warned that his country faces the risk of further conflict with the United States […]

Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Israel/ Palestine
Beyond Recognition: Is a Palestinian State even Possible Anymore?

Beyond Recognition: Is a Palestinian State even Possible Anymore?

By Martin Kear, University of Sydney (The Conversation) – Australia will recognise a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly meeting in September, joining the […]

The Conversation

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Cowardly Israeli Murder of 5 Journalists, including Anas al-Sharif, Smearing them as Hamas

Cowardly Israeli Murder of 5 Journalists, including Anas al-Sharif, Smearing them as Hamas

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli state by now has a long and sanguinary history of murdering writers and journalists in cold blood. In […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
As Summer Temperatures Soar, Iran’s Water Crisis Worsens

As Summer Temperatures Soar, Iran’s Water Crisis Worsens

As dams dry and rivers vanish, Iran’s capital faces its fiercest thirst in modern memory. Written byReza Talebi ( Globalvoices.org ) – Soaring summer temperatures […]

Global Voices

Israel/ Palestine
Why the Gaza War won’t End: Israel’s Strategic Goal has been Ethnic Cleansing

Why the Gaza War won’t End: Israel’s Strategic Goal has been Ethnic Cleansing

By Seth Cantey | ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – Israel’s global standing has deteriorated throughout the war in Gaza, but in recent weeks […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

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