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Iran Seeks China’s help to Install 7 gigs of new Solar Capacity in “4th Industrial Revolution”
China

Iran Seeks China’s help to Install 7 gigs of new Solar Capacity in “4th Industrial Revolution”

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – With the prospect of new Iranian nuclear power plants looking dim after Israeli and American bombing of its civilian nuclear […]

Gaza and the Death of Conscience

Gaza and the Death of Conscience

09/13/2025 By Middle East Monitor

The ‘Gaza Riviera’ is a fantasy Plan that relies on Urbicide and Expulsion

The ‘Gaza Riviera’ is a fantasy Plan that relies on Urbicide and Expulsion

09/13/2025 By The Conversation

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Authoritarianism
Iran: Brute Force Used in Crackdown on Dissent

Iran: Brute Force Used in Crackdown on Dissent

( Human Rights Watch – (Beirut) – Iranian authorities used excessive and lethal force in their clampdown on nationwide protests that broke out in September […]

Human Rights Watch

African-Americans
On MLK Day, Let’s Learn the Right Lessons from History

On MLK Day, Let’s Learn the Right Lessons from History

By Svante Myrick | – ( Otherwords.org) Every year, the arrival of the Martin Luther King holiday calls us to pause and reflect on Dr. […]

OtherWords

Colonialism
Why do so many Turkish people believe ‘Secret Clauses’ in the 1923 Great Power Lausanne Treaty will be unveiled this Year?

Why do so many Turkish people believe ‘Secret Clauses’ in the 1923 Great Power Lausanne Treaty will be unveiled this Year?

By Ozan Ozavci, Utrecht University | – (The Conversation) – Commonly regarded as the “birth certificate” of modern Turkey, the 1923 treaty of Lausanne was […]

The Conversation

African-Americans
J. Edgar Hoover was the QAnon of his Era, and Martin Luther King Jr. was the Victim of his Dirty Tricks

J. Edgar Hoover was the QAnon of his Era, and Martin Luther King Jr. was the Victim of his Dirty Tricks

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Ours is an age beset by conspiracy theories, with the fascist QAnon cult at the center of much public lunacy. […]

Juan Cole

racism
How the Right-Wing Distortion of Martin Luther King Jr.‘s words enables more, not less, racial Division within American society

How the Right-Wing Distortion of Martin Luther King Jr.‘s words enables more, not less, racial Division within American society

Hajar Yazdiha, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences | – U.S. Rep. Chip Roy of Texas is just the latest conservative lawmaker to […]

The Conversation

censorship
Saudi Arabia: Government Agents infiltrate Wikipedia, sentence Independent Admins to Prison

Saudi Arabia: Government Agents infiltrate Wikipedia, sentence Independent Admins to Prison

By SMEX | – ( Globalvoices.org ) – The Saudi Arabian government infiltrated Wikipedia by recruiting the organization’s highest ranked administrators in the country to […]

Global Voices

Pentagon
Why does the Pentagon Budget Really Keep Growing? When Democracies Pursue Imperial Dominance it doesn’t End Well

Why does the Pentagon Budget Really Keep Growing? When Democracies Pursue Imperial Dominance it doesn’t End Well

( Tomdispatch.com) – Imagine this scenario for a moment: a “great power” watches another major power fight a war in a nearby nation for 10 […]

William J. Astore

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Israeli Opposition Warns of "Civil War," "End of Democracy" as 80,000 Rally against Netanyahu

Israeli Opposition Warns of “Civil War,” “End of Democracy” as 80,000 Rally against Netanyahu

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Palestinian newspaper Amad reports that tens of thousands of Israelis took part on Saturday evening in demonstrations in Tel […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Dual Iranian-British national Alireza Akbari's execution plunges Iranian Relations with the West to a new Low

Dual Iranian-British national Alireza Akbari’s execution plunges Iranian Relations with the West to a new Low

Oxford (Special to Informed Comment) – On Saturday 14 January, the Iranian regime executed a 61-year old dual Iranian-British national and a former deputy defence […]

Farhang Jahanpour

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