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Global South is now 1/3 of major EV Markets, Leaving US in the Dust
Climate Crisis

Global South is now 1/3 of major EV Markets, Leaving US in the Dust

Juan Cole

The adoption of electric vehicles has spread to the Global South and is no longer only a Chinese, European and American phenomenon.

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3 Narratives of Gaza: Trump’s Riviera, Palestinians’ Two-States, Israel’s Genocide

3 Narratives of Gaza: Trump’s Riviera, Palestinians’ Two-States, Israel’s Genocide

12/23/2025 By Ramzy Baroud

“You will not Kill our Imagination:” Palestinian Memoirist Saeed Teebi

“You will not Kill our Imagination:” Palestinian Memoirist Saeed Teebi

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  By Usman Butt X: TheUsmanButt ( Middle East Monitor ) – Ahmed Al-Sharaa has been in power in Syria for nearly 1-year. The lightening […]

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“If I must die”: Poetry from Gaza creates an alternative Archive of Testimony

“If I must die”: Poetry from Gaza creates an alternative Archive of Testimony

By Clodagh Philippa Guerin, University of Limerick (The Conversation) – In times of war and crisis, poetry can become more than just art: it can […]

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War, Peace, and Erasure: Lessons from Wakara for Gaza and Beyond

Lincoln, NE (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Long before Israeli leaders invoked biblical rhetoric to justify the “erasure” of a Palestinian homeland, another colonizing […]

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Climate Breakdown: Each Child Today is being Born into a Slow-Motion Hiroshima

( Tomdispatch.com ) – What self-destructive creatures we turn out to be! Can you even believe it? Only recently, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, […]

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Syria: One Year since Assad’s Fall

Syria: One Year since Assad’s Fall

Human Rights Watch – (Beirut) – Syrian transitional authorities have taken positive steps on justice, transparency, and rights but failed to prevent continued violence and atrocities, […]

Human Rights Watch

Climate Change
Was Volcano-Driven Climate Change partially Behind the Black Death?

Was Volcano-Driven Climate Change partially Behind the Black Death?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – How plague came to Europe around 1347 has long been debated by historians. Scientists have located the origin of the […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
One way Zohran Mamdani could arrest Indicted War Criminal Benjamin Netanyahu

One way Zohran Mamdani could arrest Indicted War Criminal Benjamin Netanyahu

  by Dr Mohammad Yousef ( Middle East Monitor ) – New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani has repeatedly stated that he would instruct the NYPD […]

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Trump campaigned on Ending Forever Wars: Marco Rubio didn’t get the Memo

Trump campaigned on Ending Forever Wars: Marco Rubio didn’t get the Memo

( Code Pink ) – Donald Trump campaigned on ending endless wars and now boasts that he has resolved eight wars. In reality, this claim […]

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Rate of Global Heating in the Arab World is Twice the Global Average

Rate of Global Heating in the Arab World is Twice the Global Average

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The World Meteorological Organization has issued its annual report on the 22 countries of the Arab world, covering last year, […]

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