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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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Authoritarianism
‘They Deserved To Die’: Iranian Doctors Who Treated Wounded Protesters ‘Arrested, Tortured’

‘They Deserved To Die’: Iranian Doctors Who Treated Wounded Protesters ‘Arrested, Tortured’

    The authorities have killed hundreds of protesters and arrested thousands of people since the demonstrations erupted in September.   ( RFE/RL ) – […]

Golnaz Esfandiari

astronomy and outer space
Earthquake in Turkey and Syria: how Satellites can help rescue Efforts

Earthquake in Turkey and Syria: how Satellites can help rescue Efforts

By Emilie Bronner, Centre national d’études spatiales (CNES) | – In disasters like the 7.8 magnitude earthquake and 7.5-magnitude aftershock that struck Syria and Turkey […]

The Conversation

Russia
Annals of American Folly:  Was Civilization Really at Stake in Iraq?  Is it in Ukraine?

Annals of American Folly: Was Civilization Really at Stake in Iraq? Is it in Ukraine?

( Tomdispatch.com ) – “To defend civilization, defeat Russia.” Writing in the unfailingly bellicose Atlantic, an American academic of my acquaintance recently issued that dramatic […]

Andrew J. Bacevich

Bashar al-Assad
Earthquake Leaves Millions Homeless and without Water and Electricity in Turkish, Syrian Harsh Winter, Many Facing Death

Earthquake Leaves Millions Homeless and without Water and Electricity in Turkish, Syrian Harsh Winter, Many Facing Death

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Jordanian newspaper al-Ghad reports that on top of the now nearly 30,000 known deaths in Turkey and Syria, millions […]

Juan Cole

African-Americans
Rep. Ilhan Omar makes her Move into the Mainstream

Rep. Ilhan Omar makes her Move into the Mainstream

By Doug Rossinow | – ( Minnesota Reformer) – Only six months ago, U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s future looked cloudy, her political base shaken. She […]

Minnesota Reformer

Asia
Manifesto for an Ecosocial Energy Transition from the Peoples of the South

Manifesto for an Ecosocial Energy Transition from the Peoples of the South

A new manifesto critiques the “clean energy” transitions of the Global North and offers an alternative vision from the Global South. By Peoples of the […]

contributors

Food Security
Has the Era of Low-Cost Food Ended? Further Food Price Rises could cause up to 1 Million additional Deaths in 2023

Has the Era of Low-Cost Food Ended? Further Food Price Rises could cause up to 1 Million additional Deaths in 2023

By Peter Alexander, The University of Edinburgh | – (The Conversation) – Food prices in the UK are at their highest for 15 years and […]

The Conversation

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Palestinians Mount Blood Donation Drive for Earthquake Victims, as one Artist tells European Islamophobes, 'Turkey is Strong and Will Rise Again'

Palestinians Mount Blood Donation Drive for Earthquake Victims, as one Artist tells European Islamophobes, ‘Turkey is Strong and Will Rise Again’

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas authorized the Palestinian foreign ministry to send a 30-member rapid response team to Malatya in southern […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
German Chancellor Scholz promises Construction of “four to five wind turbines per day” to reach 2030 Target

German Chancellor Scholz promises Construction of “four to five wind turbines per day” to reach 2030 Target

( Clean Energy Wire ) – In a bid to achieve the high renewable power expansion targets for the end of the decade, German chancellor […]

Benjamin Wehrmann

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