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The 136 Largest Coastal Cities, including Egypt’s Alexandria, face $1 Trillion Losses per Year from Sea Level Rise by 2050
Climate Crisis

The 136 Largest Coastal Cities, including Egypt’s Alexandria, face $1 Trillion Losses per Year from Sea Level Rise by 2050

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a new paper, Chris R. Stokes et al. write in Communications Earth and Environment that even if we manage […]

China, the ASEAN Nations of S.E. Asia, and the Gulf take up Palestine at Summit

China, the ASEAN Nations of S.E. Asia, and the Gulf take up Palestine at Summit

05/31/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Solar Panels’ Shade helps boost Colorado grassland Productivity in dry Years

Solar Panels’ Shade helps boost Colorado grassland Productivity in dry Years

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EVs will Make Up 25% of New Car Sales Globally in 2025, up from 20% last Year

EVs will Make Up 25% of New Car Sales Globally in 2025, up from 20% last Year

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Electric vehicles are expected to make up some 25% of cars sold globally in 2025, according to the International Energy […]

Juan Cole

censorship
Kneecap Band Member’s Arrest is not the Issue, Criminalizing Opposition to Genocide of Palestinians Is

Kneecap Band Member’s Arrest is not the Issue, Criminalizing Opposition to Genocide of Palestinians Is

  by Brendan Ciarán Browne and     Elian Weizman ( Middle East Monitor ) – Anyone with the most modest modicum of common sense […]

Middle East Monitor

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Why ‘The Coin’ by Palestinian writer Yasmin Zaher has won the Dylan Thomas Prize

Why ‘The Coin’ by Palestinian writer Yasmin Zaher has won the Dylan Thomas Prize

(The Conversation) – Daniel G. Williams, Swansea University (The Conversation) – Yasmin Zaher’s remarkable novel The Coin has won the Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Green Enterprise: 1 Gigawatt He Dreiht North Sea Wind Farm receives no Gov’t Subsidies

Green Enterprise: 1 Gigawatt He Dreiht North Sea Wind Farm receives no Gov’t Subsidies

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The first giant Vestas offshore wind turbine of the German He Dreiht (“It Spins”) project in the North Sea has […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
‘Killing all Humanity’: 2 Israeli Embassy Workers Killed in ‘Horrific’ Washington, DC Shooting

‘Killing all Humanity’: 2 Israeli Embassy Workers Killed in ‘Horrific’ Washington, DC Shooting

“We are grounded first and foremost in the belief that all human life is precious, which is precisely why we are struggling for a world […]

Common Dreams

Israel/ Palestine
Israelis’ Blinkered Media Drive Public Doubts on Gaza’s Hunger Plight

Israelis’ Blinkered Media Drive Public Doubts on Gaza’s Hunger Plight

By Jori Breslawski, Tel Aviv University and Carlo Koos, University of Bergen (The Conversation) – Under mounting international pressure, Israel announced on May 19, 2025, […]

The Conversation

Colonialism
500 Years of Inflicted Horrors, from the New World to Israel

500 Years of Inflicted Horrors, from the New World to Israel

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Leon Golub once related a story to a mutual friend. A Chicago artist famous for large canvases depicting crimson torture rooms in […]

Greg Grandin

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Islam:  A New History

Islam: A New History

A Review of Islam: A New History, from Muhammad to the Present (Princeton University Press, 2025) by John Tolan Detroit (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) […]

Joseph Richard Preville

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As US Pushes For Zero Enrichment, Iran Insists It Won’t Give Up Nuclear Program

As US Pushes For Zero Enrichment, Iran Insists It Won’t Give Up Nuclear Program

By RFE/RL’s Radio Farda and Kian Sharifi ( RFE/RL ) – US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff declared that the Donald Trump administration’s “red line” in […]

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