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America may have invaded Iraq for its Oil, but Solar Power is what Iraqis now Want
Climate Crisis

America may have invaded Iraq for its Oil, but Solar Power is what Iraqis now Want

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Iraqi farmers, tired of high electricity bills and frequent blackouts, are turning to solar panels, according to Khalid Al-Mousuly at […]

Despite Efforts to Shift the Blame, Israeli Policies Are Starving Children

Despite Efforts to Shift the Blame, Israeli Policies Are Starving Children

08/21/2025 By Human Rights Watch

We’ll all Feel the Abrupt Changes Striking Antarctica Sea Ice and Ocean Currents

We’ll all Feel the Abrupt Changes Striking Antarctica Sea Ice and Ocean Currents

08/21/2025 By The Conversation

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America’s Foreign Policy Death Spiral

America’s Foreign Policy Death Spiral

(Counterpunch) – American foreign policy today is in a reactionary death spiral. Never has a new “national security” policy paradigm been more desperately needed, yet […]

Walter L. Hixson

Israel/ Palestine
Finding What is in Common: The “Hamsa Aleichem” dialogue group for Israeli and Palestinian students

Finding What is in Common: The “Hamsa Aleichem” dialogue group for Israeli and Palestinian students

( Traveling Twins) – At Hebrew University, I am participating in a “Hamsa Aleichem” dialogue group for Israeli and Palestinian students. Organized by the campus […]

Abigail Leibowitz

Climate Crisis
Good News in 2022:  Top 5 Reasons to be Happy about Electric Vehicles in US in Coming Year

Good News in 2022: Top 5 Reasons to be Happy about Electric Vehicles in US in Coming Year

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Biden administration’s Infrastructure and Jobs Act, passed in October, and the new fuel standards set by the EPA will […]

Juan Cole

Democratic Party
Three Reasons to be Hopeful Democrats will Still Pass Key Parts of Build Back Better

Three Reasons to be Hopeful Democrats will Still Pass Key Parts of Build Back Better

By Karen Dolan | – ( Otherwords.org ) – There’s no getting around it: 2021 has been a tough year. As with 2020, many of […]

OtherWords

Authoritarianism
The Long Arm of Religious Intolerance: Where the Inquisition was Strongest, Poverty and Mistrust Still Prevail

The Long Arm of Religious Intolerance: Where the Inquisition was Strongest, Poverty and Mistrust Still Prevail

By Jordi Vidal-Robert, Hans-Joachim Voth, and Mauricio Drelichman | – From Imperial Rome to the Crusades, to modern North Korea or the treatment of Rohingya […]

The Conversation

Christianity
No Santa Claus for Christians of Lebanon, Syria or Palestine this Year as US Piles on With Sanctions or Neglect

No Santa Claus for Christians of Lebanon, Syria or Palestine this Year as US Piles on With Sanctions or Neglect

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Why is America imposing hardships on the Christians of the Middle East? Xinhua’s reporter visited Syria and found that the […]

Juan Cole

Left Politics
A Few Magnificent Things That Happened in 2021

A Few Magnificent Things That Happened in 2021

By Peter Certo | – ( Otherwords.org) – It would be easy to survey the end of 2021 and see another year in wreckage. There’s […]

Peter Certo

Climate Crisis
Keep it in the Ground: We can’t limit Global Heating to Safe Levels unless We Ban all new Oil and Gas Fields

Keep it in the Ground: We can’t limit Global Heating to Safe Levels unless We Ban all new Oil and Gas Fields

By David Waltham | – As a professor of geophysics, I have spent 36 years training young geologists destined to work in the fossil fuel […]

The Conversation

art and photography
The Nativity, Jesus and Mary in Paintings of the Muslim Mughal Court of India

The Nativity, Jesus and Mary in Paintings of the Muslim Mughal Court of India

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Here’s a Christmas entry. The Mughal dynasty, originating in what is now Uzbekistan, ruled India from 1526 until the 18th […]

Juan Cole

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