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Global Battle Royale at COP30 between Fossil Fuel Producers and Green Energy Advocates
Climate Crisis

Global Battle Royale at COP30 between Fossil Fuel Producers and Green Energy Advocates

Juan Cole

A bloc is attempting to deep-six the pledge made at COP28 to “transition away from fossil fuels.”

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Protesting Canada’s Detention of Former UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falk over Palestine Rights Advocacy

Protesting Canada’s Detention of Former UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falk over Palestine Rights Advocacy

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Trump using Jews to Ban Free Speech: The Ultimate in Antisemitism

Trump using Jews to Ban Free Speech: The Ultimate in Antisemitism

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You're all Palestinians Now:  How Harsh Apartheid Policing is being Turned on Israeli Protesters

You’re all Palestinians Now: How Harsh Apartheid Policing is being Turned on Israeli Protesters

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israel’s Apartheid state, having honed its instruments of repression against its occupied Palestinians, whom it keeps stateless and without rights, […]

Juan Cole

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No, Discussing Israel's 'Right to Exist' is not Antisemitic; States don't have Rights, People Do

No, Discussing Israel’s ‘Right to Exist’ is not Antisemitic; States don’t have Rights, People Do

By Nasim Ahmed | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – “Israel’s right to exist” has been challenged in expert testimonies by leading scholars Professor […]

Middle East Monitor

Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia and Sport: a strategic Gamble aiming for economic, political and social Goals

Saudi Arabia and Sport: a strategic Gamble aiming for economic, political and social Goals

By Simon Chadwick, SKEMA Business School | – (The Conversation) – Boxing purists may argue over the sporting value of a fight between a reality […]

The Conversation

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Solar power battery installations increase exponentially in Germany

Solar power battery installations increase exponentially in Germany

( Clean Energy Wire ) – The number of household solar power storage installations has grown exponentially over the past four years, with a year-on-year […]

Benjamin Wehrmann

Climate Crisis
Humanity put out more C02 than Ever Before last Year, but Green Energy Kept the Annual Increase Small

Humanity put out more C02 than Ever Before last Year, but Green Energy Kept the Annual Increase Small

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – This is a bad news, good news story. Cathy Bussewitz at the Associated Press reports that carbon dioxide emissions reached […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Silent no more: Criticism of the state's inadequate earthquake response reaches football stadiums in Turkey

Silent no more: Criticism of the state’s inadequate earthquake response reaches football stadiums in Turkey

Fans also called for the ruling AKP government to resign Written byArzu Geybullayeva   Screenshot from Besiktas football club’s official YouTube channel video of the […]

Arzu Geybullayeva

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Race and Erasure:  Why don’t Syrian and Palestinian Refugees get treated like Ukrainians?

Race and Erasure: Why don’t Syrian and Palestinian Refugees get treated like Ukrainians?

By Ritesh Shah, University of Auckland | – (The Conversation) – With the war in Ukraine now in its second year, nearly a third of […]

The Conversation

China
At the Brink of War in the Pacific?  The Nightmare of Great Power Rivalry Over Taiwan

At the Brink of War in the Pacific? The Nightmare of Great Power Rivalry Over Taiwan

( Tomdispatch.com ) – While the world has been distracted, even amused, by the diplomatic tussle around China’s recent high-altitude balloon flights across North America, […]

Alfred W. McCoy

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Israel's Ahmadinejad: Smotrich calls for Palestinian Town to be Wiped off the Map

Israel’s Ahmadinejad: Smotrich calls for Palestinian Town to be Wiped off the Map

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli minister of finance, Bezalel Smotrich, who is also the civil administrator of the Palestinian West Bank in the […]

Juan Cole

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