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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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Bill of Rights
Police gone Wild: When the Scorpions on the Corner Just Might Kill You

Police gone Wild: When the Scorpions on the Corner Just Might Kill You

By Michael Gould-Wartofsky | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – To residents of Memphis’s resource-poor, predominantly nonwhite neighborhoods, the Scorpions were easy to spot. The plainclothes […]

Tomdispatch

Climate Crisis
Climate Emergency: Extreme Heat Waves will increase 600% in Israel, Middle East, over 80 years, as 70% of Youth consider Emigrating

Climate Emergency: Extreme Heat Waves will increase 600% in Israel, Middle East, over 80 years, as 70% of Youth consider Emigrating

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Ruth Schuster at Haaretz reports on a new study led by Assaf Hochmann at Hebrew University, finding that extreme heat […]

Juan Cole

Corporations
Derailments across the Country: Rail Workers Warned Us that Greed Is Dangerous

Derailments across the Country: Rail Workers Warned Us that Greed Is Dangerous

By Rebekah Entralgo | – ( Otherwords.org ) – The toxic clouds that billowed up from a derailed freight train in Ohio this February are […]

OtherWords

Israel/ Palestine
Israel submits Plans  for 7,000 new Squatter-Settlement Units in Palestinian West Bank

Israel submits Plans for 7,000 new Squatter-Settlement Units in Palestinian West Bank

( Middle East Monitor) – Israeli occupation authorities have submitted plans to build 7,157 new settlement units in the E1 area that would bisect Palestinian […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
Planting more Trees could reduce Heat-Related Deaths in Cities by a Third

Planting more Trees could reduce Heat-Related Deaths in Cities by a Third

By Meelan Thondoo, University of Cambridge; Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, Australian Catholic University; and Tamara Iungman, Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) | – (The Conversation) – […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Top 6 Exciting Wind Power Developments in US, as investment in Offshore Wind Triples and Wind Generates 10% of US Electricity

Top 6 Exciting Wind Power Developments in US, as investment in Offshore Wind Triples and Wind Generates 10% of US Electricity

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Renewable energy continues to burgeon rapidly in the United States. Here are some of the signs of a major transformation […]

Juan Cole

Banking
$1 trillion in the Shade – the annual Profits that Multinational Corporations shift to Tax Havens continues to Soar

$1 trillion in the Shade – the annual Profits that Multinational Corporations shift to Tax Havens continues to Soar

By Ludvig Wier, University of Copenhagen and Gabriel Zucman, University of California, Berkeley | – (The Conversation) – About a decade ago, the world’s biggest […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Chancellor Scholz on Ukraine:  Putin Tried to Blackmail Germany with Fossil Gas, but only Accelerated Energy Diversification

Chancellor Scholz on Ukraine: Putin Tried to Blackmail Germany with Fossil Gas, but only Accelerated Energy Diversification

By Benjamin Wehrmann | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – Russia’s attempt to blackmail Germany and the rest of Europe into giving up its […]

Benjamin Wehrmann

National Security State
Children of War:  The War on Terror and the Battle for Young Minds

Children of War: The War on Terror and the Battle for Young Minds

( Tomdispatch.com ) – During a Veterans Day celebration in my small Maryland community, a teacher clicked through a slideshow of smiling men and women […]

Andrea Mazzarino

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