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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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COVID-19 killed more Americans in 2021 than 2020, and the Republican Party Death Cult is mostly to Blame

COVID-19 killed more Americans in 2021 than 2020, and the Republican Party Death Cult is mostly to Blame

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The number of dead from COVID-19 in the U.S. in 2021, as of yesterday, November 21, surpassed the deadly toll […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Why We Can’t Trust the World Bank to Stand Up to Powerful Fossil Fuel Companies

Why We Can’t Trust the World Bank to Stand Up to Powerful Fossil Fuel Companies

By Manuel Pérez-Rocha | – ( Inequality.org) – At the international climate change negotiations in Scotland, the World Bank tried to position itself as a […]

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Democracy
In Sudan’s new Revolt, Women and Youth will not settle for less than true Democracy

In Sudan’s new Revolt, Women and Youth will not settle for less than true Democracy

By Nazik Awad | (OpenDemocracy.net) – Sudan’s coup on 25 October was both highly anticipated and inevitable. For three months, tension between the civilian and […]

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Bangladesh
Bangladesh Cyclone: Mental Health Distress Shows Devastation of Climate Emergency

Bangladesh Cyclone: Mental Health Distress Shows Devastation of Climate Emergency

By Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson | – Over the past decade, there has been growing recognition of climate-induced loss and damage – such as the destruction of […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
The Climate Emergency Comes for Iran, as Thousands of Angry Farmers Protest in Dry Riverbed at Isfahan

The Climate Emergency Comes for Iran, as Thousands of Angry Farmers Protest in Dry Riverbed at Isfahan

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Friday, Kayhan London reports that thousands of farmers and other activists gathered in the dry riverbed of the historic […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
If We could Mobilize to Fight COVID-19, why can't we Ramp up to Combat the Climate Emergency?

If We could Mobilize to Fight COVID-19, why can’t we Ramp up to Combat the Climate Emergency?

By Jill Richardson ( Otherwords.org ) – The recent COP26 climate summit in Glasgow was the 26th attempt to get the nations of the world […]

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censorship
Turkish Online Censorship Ramps up, Targeting Sites Critical of the Government or the President

Turkish Online Censorship Ramps up, Targeting Sites Critical of the Government or the President

By Arzu Geybullayeva | – ( Globalvoices.org) – Written in 1953, the dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is about a future where books […]

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Far Right
Why the Rittenhouse verdict flies in the face of legal standards for self-defense

Why the Rittenhouse verdict flies in the face of legal standards for self-defense

By Ronald Sullivan | – In a two-week trial that reignited debate over self-defense laws across the nation, a Wisconsin jury acquitted Kyle Rittenhouse for […]

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To Avoid another War Biden must get US Troops, caught in Israel-Iran Crossfire, out of Syria

To Avoid another War Biden must get US Troops, caught in Israel-Iran Crossfire, out of Syria

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Eric Schmitt and Ronen Bergman at the New York Times report that a drone strike on a US base in […]

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