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Iran Seeks China’s help to Install 7 gigs of new Solar Capacity in “4th Industrial Revolution”
China

Iran Seeks China’s help to Install 7 gigs of new Solar Capacity in “4th Industrial Revolution”

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – With the prospect of new Iranian nuclear power plants looking dim after Israeli and American bombing of its civilian nuclear […]

Gaza and the Death of Conscience

Gaza and the Death of Conscience

09/13/2025 By Middle East Monitor

The ‘Gaza Riviera’ is a fantasy Plan that relies on Urbicide and Expulsion

The ‘Gaza Riviera’ is a fantasy Plan that relies on Urbicide and Expulsion

09/13/2025 By The Conversation

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Domestic Terrorism
Did Trump try to Get VP Mike Pence Killed?

Did Trump try to Get VP Mike Pence Killed?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Jan. 6 Committee revealed on Thursday that Trump knew that the Capitol had been breached by his Oath Keeper […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
What we can Learn from Bolivia’s Struggle for Free Water: Review of Maude Barlow, “Still Hopeful After All These Years”

What we can Learn from Bolivia’s Struggle for Free Water: Review of Maude Barlow, “Still Hopeful After All These Years”

Review of Maude Barlow, Still Hopeful: Lessons from a Lifetime of Activism. ECW Press, 2022. When I was teaching Political Science, some of the most […]

Peter G. Prontzos

Iran
Hello Commander: new Pop Song aims to steel Iranian youth against Temptations of American Culture

Hello Commander: new Pop Song aims to steel Iranian youth against Temptations of American Culture

By Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, SOAS, University of London | – The Tehran Times recently hailed what it referred to as: “A new epic song themed with […]

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Russia
Chomsky: America’s Orwellian Doublespeak on Aggressive War Fatally Weakens its Case on Ukraine

Chomsky: America’s Orwellian Doublespeak on Aggressive War Fatally Weakens its Case on Ukraine

By David Barsamiand Noam Chomsky | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – David Barsamian: Let’s head into the most obvious nightmare of this moment, the war […]

Tomdispatch

Congress
A Distinctly Native Criminal Class:  Was Rep. Loudermilk Part of the Jan. 6 Insurrection?  How many in Congress Were?

A Distinctly Native Criminal Class: Was Rep. Loudermilk Part of the Jan. 6 Insurrection? How many in Congress Were?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – There are 435 representatives in the House, and you and I have not heard of most of them. In some […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Gaza: Israel’s ‘Open-Air Prison’ at 15:  Israel, Egypt Restrictions Blight Palestinian Lives

Gaza: Israel’s ‘Open-Air Prison’ at 15: Israel, Egypt Restrictions Blight Palestinian Lives

Human Rights Watch – (Gaza) – Israel’s sweeping restrictions on leaving Gaza deprive its more than two million residents of opportunities to better their lives, […]

Human Rights Watch

China
Biden’s Golden Opportunity to Reverse Course on China

Biden’s Golden Opportunity to Reverse Course on China

Originally published in Hankyoreh. ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – Joe Biden has wrapped up his first trip to Asia. He met with new […]

John Feffer

African-Americans
Juneteenth celebrates just one of the United States’ 20 emancipation days – and the history of how emancipated people were kept unfree needs to be remembered, too

Juneteenth celebrates just one of the United States’ 20 emancipation days – and the history of how emancipated people were kept unfree needs to be remembered, too

By Kris Manjapra, Tufts University | – The actual day was June 19, 1865, and it was the Black dockworkers in Galveston, Texas, who first […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
This Week's Climate Disasters in the US are Giving us a Glimpse of our Future if we don't Stop CO2

This Week’s Climate Disasters in the US are Giving us a Glimpse of our Future if we don’t Stop CO2

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – We’re only midweek, but we have already seen serial disasters across the United States that have been exacerbated by the […]

Juan Cole

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