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When even Saudi Arabia Jumps into Solar and Wind Power, You know Change is Here
Climate Crisis

When even Saudi Arabia Jumps into Solar and Wind Power, You know Change is Here

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Saudi Arabia’s massive oil deposits and its 9.53 million barrels per day (bpd) of petroleum production make it an enormous […]

How Europe is managing Guilt over Gaza: The Politics of moral Cleansing

How Europe is managing Guilt over Gaza: The Politics of moral Cleansing

08/25/2025 By Global Voices

Trump Junk: Won’t Enforce Rules for Short-Term Junk Health Insurance Plans

Trump Junk: Won’t Enforce Rules for Short-Term Junk Health Insurance Plans

08/25/2025 By F. Douglas Stephenson

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The Antiwar Movement That Wasn’t Enough: The Wars We Couldn’t End

The Antiwar Movement That Wasn’t Enough: The Wars We Couldn’t End

By Nan Levinson | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – When I urge my writing students to juice up their stories, I tell them about “disruptive […]

Tomdispatch

Authoritarianism
Beer Hall Putsch 2.0: Republican Nat'l Committee Channels their inner Hitler in defending Capitol Insurrectionists

Beer Hall Putsch 2.0: Republican Nat’l Committee Channels their inner Hitler in defending Capitol Insurrectionists

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Republican National Committee’s censure of Representatives Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) slammed the two for “participating in […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
How Israel lost the War of Words over its Apartheid

How Israel lost the War of Words over its Apartheid

( Middle East Monitor ) – Who wrote the following quote? “Whereas the Afrikaner apostles of apartheid in South Africa, for example, brazenly proclaimed their […]

Asa Winstanley

censorship
Banned Books Should Be Required Reading

Banned Books Should Be Required Reading

( Otherwords.org ) The people who want to ban Maus or The 1619 Project are the ones who need to read them. By Olivia Alperstein […]

Olivia Alperstein

Afghanistan
Suicide Bomber Who Killed U.S. Troops and Afghans “Likely” Used Unguarded Route to Kabul Airport Gate

Suicide Bomber Who Killed U.S. Troops and Afghans “Likely” Used Unguarded Route to Kabul Airport Gate

By Brian J. Conley, Mohammad J. Alizada, Samira Nuhzat, Abdul Ahad Poya and Mirzahussain Sadid, Alive in Afghanistan, Joshua Kaplan and Joaquin Sapien | – […]

ProPublica

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Is Peace on the Verge of breaking out between US and Iran?  Biden waives some Trump-Era Sanctions

Is Peace on the Verge of breaking out between US and Iran? Biden waives some Trump-Era Sanctions

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Al Jazeera English reports that the Biden administration has restored a key waiver for Iran’s civilian nuclear energy program that […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Germany's Solar PV capacity, at 59 Gigs, overtakes its Onshore Wind, as it aims to triple Both

Germany’s Solar PV capacity, at 59 Gigs, overtakes its Onshore Wind, as it aims to triple Both

By Jessica Bateman and Benjamin Wehrmann | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – The total solar PV capacity in Germany has reached 59 gigawatts […]

Clean Energy Wire

Iran
What the Escalating Yemen War means for Iran, Israel and the United Arab Emirates

What the Escalating Yemen War means for Iran, Israel and the United Arab Emirates

By Jonathan Fenton-Harvey | – Over the past year, a new phase of violence has emerged in war-torn Yemen between the Saudi-led coalition and the […]

Middle East Monitor

China
China is meeting its Climate Targets, but Earth needs Beijing to be more Ambitious

China is meeting its Climate Targets, but Earth needs Beijing to be more Ambitious

By Phillip Stalley | – When it comes to climate change, no nation is more important than China. It consumes more coal than the rest […]

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