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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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How Palestinian Youth resisted Israeli Occupation: with a Haircut

How Palestinian Youth resisted Israeli Occupation: with a Haircut

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The Protests in Iran are part of a long History of Women’s Resistance

The Protests in Iran are part of a long History of Women’s Resistance

By Niloofar Hooman, McMaster University | – On Sept. 16, Mahsa (Zhina) Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman, died in Tehran while in the custody of […]

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China
One City in China Plans More Offshore Wind Capacity by 2030 than the Entire United States

One City in China Plans More Offshore Wind Capacity by 2030 than the Entire United States

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Shenzhen Daily reports that the city of Chaozhou in China’s southern Guangdong Province is planning the world’s largest offshore […]

Juan Cole

Arab World
Review of Amnon Kapeliouk, Not by Omission: The Case of the 1973 Arab-Israeli War

Review of Amnon Kapeliouk, Not by Omission: The Case of the 1973 Arab-Israeli War

Barcelona (Special to Informed Comment) – Review of Amnon Kapeliouk, Not by Omission: The Case of the 1973 Arab–Israeli War (London: Verso, 2022). The 1973 […]

Marc Martorell Junyent

Dissent
Iran's Universities Turn Into A Major Battleground Amid Anti-Government Protests

Iran’s Universities Turn Into A Major Battleground Amid Anti-Government Protests

By Golnaz Esfandiari and Mohammad Zarghami | – ( RFE/RL ) – Dozens of students protested outside the law faculty at Tehran’s Allameh Tabatabei University […]

Golnaz Esfandiari

Houthi
UN Rights Body Fails Yemeni People, Again:  Zero Accountability for War Crimes

UN Rights Body Fails Yemeni People, Again: Zero Accountability for War Crimes

By Joey Shea Acting Researcher, Yemen and Bahrain | – ( Human Rights Watch ) – On October 7, the Human Rights Council adopted, without […]

Human Rights Watch

Climate Crisis
On Turning 70 in a Graying, Climate-threatened World where Christians and Muslims must learn to Understand Each Other

On Turning 70 in a Graying, Climate-threatened World where Christians and Muslims must learn to Understand Each Other

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A daily column is inevitably personal, even if the focus is, as with Informed Comment, on current events. Today I’m […]

Juan Cole

censorship
Ministry of Truth? Critics Warn Turkey's new "Disinformation" Law is a Backdoor to Heavy-handed Censorship and outlawing Dissent

Ministry of Truth? Critics Warn Turkey’s new “Disinformation” Law is a Backdoor to Heavy-handed Censorship and outlawing Dissent

By Arzu Geybullayeva | – Turkish lawmakers approved a bill on October 13 purportedly meant to combat fake news and disinformation, but local civil society […]

Global Voices

Corporations
More than half of all daily Papers in America are owned by just 10 Syndicates, most of which don’t care about Journalism.

More than half of all daily Papers in America are owned by just 10 Syndicates, most of which don’t care about Journalism.

By Jim Hightower | – ( Otherwords.org) – My newspaper died. Well, technically it still appears. But it has no life, no news, and barely […]

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