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Global Battle Royale at COP30 between Fossil Fuel Producers and Green Energy Advocates
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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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Iranian women have been rebelling against restrictions since the Islamic Revolution in 1979 – with renewed hope that protests this time will end differently

Iranian women have been rebelling against restrictions since the Islamic Revolution in 1979 – with renewed hope that protests this time will end differently

By Pardis Mahdavi, The University of Montana | – Shouts of “death to the dictator” and “woman, life, freedom” are reverberating throughout the streets of […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
How America’s Democracy Is “Ripe to Be Exploited”

How America’s Democracy Is “Ripe to Be Exploited”

By Eric Umansky | – ( ProPublica) – Voters in Sweden this month gave a leading role to a far-right party with neo-Nazi roots. Italy […]

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Lie all you can Lie:  Dishonesty Plagues America's War Machine

Lie all you can Lie: Dishonesty Plagues America’s War Machine

( Tomdispatch.com ) – As a military professor for six years at the U.S. Air Force Academy in the 1990s, I often walked past the […]

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Iranian Revolutionary Guards launch Drone Strikes on Dissident Kurds in Iraq, as Baghdad summons Iranian Ambassador

Iranian Revolutionary Guards launch Drone Strikes on Dissident Kurds in Iraq, as Baghdad summons Iranian Ambassador

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps on Wednesday targeted Iranian Kurdish expatriate political and paramilitary groups in the Kurdistan Regional Government […]

Juan Cole

Feminism
Iran protests: majority of people reject compulsory hijab and an Islamic regime, surveys find

Iran protests: majority of people reject compulsory hijab and an Islamic regime, surveys find

By Pooyan Tamimi Arab, Utrecht University and Ammar Maleki, Tilburg University | – (The Conversation) – A young woman’s death in custody in Iran on […]

The Conversation

Russia
Is Putin in a Corner?

Is Putin in a Corner?

( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – When a country starts casting around for 60-year-old veterans to send to the front, you know that something’s […]

John Feffer

Iran
Former Iranian President's Daughter Arrested For Supporting Protests Triggered By Death Of Woman In Custody Over Hijab

Former Iranian President’s Daughter Arrested For Supporting Protests Triggered By Death Of Woman In Custody Over Hijab

By Mohammad Zarghami and Golnaz Esfandiari | – ( RFE/RL ) – Just days after expressing support for the protests in Iran, Faezeh Hashemi, the […]

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Irony Officially declared Dead as Israeli Foreign Ministry Decries Russian Annexation of Others' Territory

Irony Officially declared Dead as Israeli Foreign Ministry Decries Russian Annexation of Others’ Territory

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a further sign that all irony is dead, the Israeli Foreign Ministry rejected the annexation of four Ukrainian districts […]

Juan Cole

Feminism
Unrest across Iran Continues under State’s extreme Gender Apartheid

Unrest across Iran Continues under State’s extreme Gender Apartheid

By Haidar Khezri, University of Central Florida | – Unrest continues to erupt across Iran following the death of a 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman, who […]

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