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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

11/21/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

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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Can the Int’l Criminal Court Hold Israel Responsible for Crimes in Palestine?

Can the Int’l Criminal Court Hold Israel Responsible for Crimes in Palestine?

Mustafa-Fetouri | – Last February, the International Criminal Court (ICC) said it has jurisdiction over Gaza, Occupied Palestinian West Bank and East Jerusalem. The office […]

Middle East Monitor

Bill of Rights
Will America’s Forever Prison Finally Close on Biden’s Watch: The Fate of Guantánamo

Will America’s Forever Prison Finally Close on Biden’s Watch: The Fate of Guantánamo

( Tomdispatch.com) – As of December 8, 2022, Guantánamo Bay detention facility — a prison offshore of American justice and built for those detained in […]

Karen J. Greenberg

Authoritarianism
Women's Revolt in Iran reaches Household of Leader Khamenei, as his Sister denounces "Despotic Caliphate"

Women’s Revolt in Iran reaches Household of Leader Khamenei, as his Sister denounces “Despotic Caliphate”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Badri Hosseini Khamenei, the sister of Iran’s clerical Leader Ali Khamenei, just issued a public broadside against him on her […]

Juan Cole

Arab World
Xi lands in Saudi Arabia: What does China want from the Arabs?

Xi lands in Saudi Arabia: What does China want from the Arabs?

( Middle East Monitor ) – The problem with most Western media’s political analyses is that they generally tend to be short-sighted and focused mostly […]

Ramzy Baroud

Russia
The Forgotten War: what Russia could win from the reignited Conflict in Syria

The Forgotten War: what Russia could win from the reignited Conflict in Syria

Stefan Wolff, University of Birmingham | – (The Conversation) – Largely overshadowed by the war in Ukraine, Syria remains a deeply divided and violent country, […]

The Conversation

Corporations
Congress Has No Business Shoveling Another $847 Billion Into the Military Industrial Complex

Congress Has No Business Shoveling Another $847 Billion Into the Military Industrial Complex

By Lindsay Koshgarian | – ( Otherwords.org ) – Can you imagine the audacity to fail a multi-trillion dollar audit of public funds, and then […]

OtherWords

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U.S. State Department Slams Al Jazeera for taking Israeli Assassination of Abu Akleh to Int'l Criminal Court, though US asked Court to Investigate Russia

U.S. State Department Slams Al Jazeera for taking Israeli Assassination of Abu Akleh to Int’l Criminal Court, though US asked Court to Investigate Russia

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Qatar-based satellite news channel Al Jazeera has referred the case of one of its slain reporters, Shireen Abu Akleh […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Iranian-Baluch Prisoner Khodanoor Lajaei: Icon for a Revolution

Iranian-Baluch Prisoner Khodanoor Lajaei: Icon for a Revolution

By Hamid Yazdan Panah | – ( Globalvoices.org) – Unprecedented protests have been taking place in Iran over the last two months, with thousands taking […]

Global Voices

Biodiversity
Key Summit:  Avoiding Climate Breakdown depends on protecting Earth’s Biodiversity

Key Summit: Avoiding Climate Breakdown depends on protecting Earth’s Biodiversity

By Nathan Cooper, University of Waikato | – (The Conversation) – Thousands of delegates have gathered in Montreal, Canada, for a once-in-a-decade chance to address […]

The Conversation

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