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California Strikes Back: Trump Poked the Golden Bear
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California Strikes Back: Trump Poked the Golden Bear

H. Scott Prosterman

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – California Governor Gavin Newsom assumed the mantle of national leadership when he announced California’s “Election Rigging Response […]

Now the New Year is Reviving old Desires: FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:4

Now the New Year is Reviving old Desires: FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:4

08/18/2025 By Juan Cole

The West’s Long Struggle Against Genocide Prevention

The West’s Long Struggle Against Genocide Prevention

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Climate Emergency's Knock-on Effects: How Europe’s Drought is making Britain’s energy Crisis worse

Climate Emergency’s Knock-on Effects: How Europe’s Drought is making Britain’s energy Crisis worse

Simon Waldman, University of Hull | – (The Conversation) – Along the River Elbe, in Germany and the Czech Republic, is a series of rocks […]

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Germany's Economy and Climate Ministry to tender 1.5 Gigs of new Solar, and Unleash Rooftop Solar Potential

Germany’s Economy and Climate Ministry to tender 1.5 Gigs of new Solar, and Unleash Rooftop Solar Potential

By Benjamin Wehrmann | – Tagesspiegel Background ( Clean Energy Wire) Germany’s government plans to rapidly accelerate the expansion of solar power capacity in the […]

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Climate Crisis
Will Charles III be the first Eco-King? Vocal Proponent of Green Energy and Battler of Big Carbon takes the Throne

Will Charles III be the first Eco-King? Vocal Proponent of Green Energy and Battler of Big Carbon takes the Throne

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The new king of England, despite being a booster of green energy and a foe of the climate emergency is […]

Juan Cole

Government surveillance
America’s Digital Soldiers in an Online Forever War

America’s Digital Soldiers in an Online Forever War

By Andy Kroll | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – The three men and three women stood with their right arms raised. Behind them the remains […]

Tomdispatch

Authoritarianism
Rumors Swirl Around Iranian Supreme Leader's Successor: Will it be another Khomeini?

Rumors Swirl Around Iranian Supreme Leader’s Successor: Will it be another Khomeini?

( RFE/ RL ) – Iran’s Rasa news agency has rekindled rumors that Mojtaba Khamenei, the influential son of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is […]

Golnaz Esfandiari

Climate Crisis
Heat pumps can cut your energy costs by up to 90%. It’s not magic, just a smart use of the laws of physics

Heat pumps can cut your energy costs by up to 90%. It’s not magic, just a smart use of the laws of physics

By Alan Pears, RMIT University | – (The Conversation) – Heat pumps are becoming all the rage around a world that has to slash carbon […]

The Conversation

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More Ukraine-Palestine Hypocrisy: US slams Russia for Deporting Residents from Occupied Territory, which Israel does all the Time

More Ukraine-Palestine Hypocrisy: US slams Russia for Deporting Residents from Occupied Territory, which Israel does all the Time

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Wednesday, US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield castigated Russia for having deported large numbers of Ukrainians from […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Did the U.S. Permanently Destabilize Iraq? Will There be an Intra-Shia Civil War?

Did the U.S. Permanently Destabilize Iraq? Will There be an Intra-Shia Civil War?

By Raed Ahmed | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – There is usually a lot of competition between near-equal armed groups in Iraq. Resisting […]

Middle East Monitor

Displaced and Refugees
A Syrian Academic at the Fringe: why I put on a Show to reclaim the Stories of Refugees like Me

A Syrian Academic at the Fringe: why I put on a Show to reclaim the Stories of Refugees like Me

By Lina Fadel, Heriot-Watt University | – This summer I performed my own one-woman show at the 75th Edinburgh Fringe – a sentence I never […]

The Conversation

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