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Riyadh-Islamabad “Islamic NATO” to Check Israel in Shadow of US Decline
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Riyadh-Islamabad “Islamic NATO” to Check Israel in Shadow of US Decline

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a dramatic signal that the Arab Gulf nations have completely lost faith in the American security umbrella, on Wednesday […]

Palestinian Statehood is winning major new Supporters at UN – but symbolic Action won’t make it happen

Palestinian Statehood is winning major new Supporters at UN – but symbolic Action won’t make it happen

09/20/2025 By The Conversation

Protesting UC Berkeley handing Names of Faculty and Students  to Dept. of Education

Protesting UC Berkeley handing Names of Faculty and Students to Dept. of Education

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Top 5 Things you need to Know about the Glasgow Climate Pact

Top 5 Things you need to Know about the Glasgow Climate Pact

By Simon Lewis and Mark Maslin | – The COP26 UN climate talks in Glasgow have finished and the gavel has come down on the […]

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Good Climate News: US will increase Solar Power by nearly 50% in 2022, and add 29 Gigawatts of Wind

Good Climate News: US will increase Solar Power by nearly 50% in 2022, and add 29 Gigawatts of Wind

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Both at COP26 and in the U.S. Congress, a lot of attention is rightly focused on what governments are doing […]

Juan Cole

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As Activists sue, Judges are not waiting on Politicians to rule against Carbon Emissions

As Activists sue, Judges are not waiting on Politicians to rule against Carbon Emissions

By Isabel Sutton | – ( Clean Energy Wire) – A string of landmark rulings forcing governments to step up emission cuts have turned the […]

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Top 5 Loopholes left by COP26 for Big Carbon that need to be Closed

Top 5 Loopholes left by COP26 for Big Carbon that need to be Closed

By Jeremy Moss | – For the Glasgow climate summit to be judged a success, a key outcome had to be that parties agree the […]

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Climate Crisis
After Unprecedented Wildfires, Turkey finally ratifies the Paris Climate Accord, sets 2053 to Eliminate Carbon Emissions

After Unprecedented Wildfires, Turkey finally ratifies the Paris Climate Accord, sets 2053 to Eliminate Carbon Emissions

Arzu Geybullayeva | – ( Globalvoices.org) – More than five years after signing it, Turkey has become the final G20 member state to ratify the […]

Global Voices

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In Irrational COVID Policy, is there any Difference between Republicans and  Iran's Ayatollahs?

In Irrational COVID Policy, is there any Difference between Republicans and Iran’s Ayatollahs?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – David Axe at the Daily Beast reports on what he says is very bad news for the US red states […]

Juan Cole

Islam
Juan Cole's "Muhammad" is one of Best Five Books on the Prophet Muhammad (Muqtedar Khan Youtube)

Juan Cole’s “Muhammad” is one of Best Five Books on the Prophet Muhammad (Muqtedar Khan Youtube)

Muqtedar Khan is Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware. His doctoral dissertation at Georgetown University was on Islamic political […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
In Turkey, 30 people face investigation over social media posts that ‘insulted the president’

In Turkey, 30 people face investigation over social media posts that ‘insulted the president’

By Arzu Geybullayeva ” – ( Globalvoices.org) – Turkish social media users have taken their concerns about President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s health to Twitter. But […]

Global Voices

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Lead, Uranium, Fertilizer: Laws Letting Corporations Pollute our Water are written by Lobbyists

Lead, Uranium, Fertilizer: Laws Letting Corporations Pollute our Water are written by Lobbyists

( Tomdispatch.com) – Think of it this way: what we don’t know will hurt us. And water — yes, water — is an example of […]

Rajan Menon

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