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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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Human Rights Groups Condemn Deadly Crackdown As Iranians Continue Protests

Human Rights Groups Condemn Deadly Crackdown As Iranians Continue Protests

By RFE/RL’s Radio Farda | – ( RFE/RL’s Radio Farda ) – More than three dozen human rights groups have condemned Tehran’s deadly crackdown on […]

Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Israel/ Palestine
The West is Complaining about an Energy Crisis, but de facto Supports Energy Shortages as Policy for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip

The West is Complaining about an Energy Crisis, but de facto Supports Energy Shortages as Policy for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip

By Motasem A Dalloul | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Russia’s war in Ukraine is about to enter its ninth month. While the […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
Solar Farms foster Wildlife and Biodiversity.  *Not* a Blight on the Landscape

Solar Farms foster Wildlife and Biodiversity. *Not* a Blight on the Landscape

By Angie Turner, Keele University; Eleanor Harrison, Staffordshire University; and Zoe Robinson, Keele University | – Liz Truss, the new UK prime minister, isn’t a […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
US officials, having Stabbed Palestinians in the Back for Decades, now "Offended" that President Abbas doesn't Trust them and Wants Russia Involved

US officials, having Stabbed Palestinians in the Back for Decades, now “Offended” that President Abbas doesn’t Trust them and Wants Russia Involved

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Barak Ravid at Axios reports that Biden administration officials are furious about remarks by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas saying he […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
The world must hear the Voice of Iranian Women

The world must hear the Voice of Iranian Women

By Azin Mohajerin and Sussan Tahmasebi | – ( Globalvoices.org ) – The name Mahsa (Jina) Amini has become a rallying cry for millions of […]

Global Voices

China
The New Cold War Heats Up Asia:  China and the U.S. Face an Unprecedented Crisis

The New Cold War Heats Up Asia: China and the U.S. Face an Unprecedented Crisis

( Tomdispatch.com ) – If the world is indeed entering a new Cold War, it bears little resemblance to the final years of that global […]

Alfred W. McCoy

Donald Trump
Lonely MAGA Bros:  Peter Thiel's New Conservative Dating App Ghosted by, like, Women

Lonely MAGA Bros: Peter Thiel’s New Conservative Dating App Ghosted by, like, Women

By Lisa Portolan, Western Sydney University | – The Right Stuff is a new conservative dating app, recently launched in the US. Not yet available […]

The Conversation

Authoritarianism
Prison Revolt, Fire, Gunshots at Notorious Evin Facility in Iran, which houses Political Prisoners, as Iran Protests enter 5th Week

Prison Revolt, Fire, Gunshots at Notorious Evin Facility in Iran, which houses Political Prisoners, as Iran Protests enter 5th Week

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Dubai-based Al-Arabiya assembles Tweets from Iran about the prisoner uprising at Iran’s maximum-security prison, Evin, which led to the outbreak […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
What the historic women’s Uprising in Iran teaches us about resisting Authoritarianism

What the historic women’s Uprising in Iran teaches us about resisting Authoritarianism

By Nilofar Sakhi | – The death of Mahsa Amini, who was detained and beaten by Iranian morality police due to a violation of “Iran’s […]

Waging Nonviolence

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