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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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Netanyahu's Poison Pill:  Militant Squatter-Settler March through Palestinian E Jerusalem set for Tuesday after New Israeli Gov't is Installed

Netanyahu’s Poison Pill: Militant Squatter-Settler March through Palestinian E Jerusalem set for Tuesday after New Israeli Gov’t is Installed

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – At the insistence of outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli cabinet authorized the so-called “Flag Day” march of […]

Juan Cole

Elections
With Little Hope for Change through the Ballot Box, Iranian Civil Society Debates Strategy

With Little Hope for Change through the Ballot Box, Iranian Civil Society Debates Strategy

By Tara Sepehri Far | Iran Researcher | – ( Human Rights Watch) – Twenty days before Iran’s presidential election, the Guardian Council, which vets […]

Human Rights Watch

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Tasmania Reached 100% Net Carbon Zero; now it is going for 200%

Tasmania Reached 100% Net Carbon Zero; now it is going for 200%

By Rupert Posner and Simon Graham | – Getting to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions and 100% renewable energy might seem the end game for climate […]

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Donald Trump
Twilight of the Pandemic? Bracing for a Surge of Trumpism or . . .

Twilight of the Pandemic? Bracing for a Surge of Trumpism or . . .

(Tomdispatch.com ) – I went to a birthday party recently. The celebrants greeted each other with hugs on the patio. After an outdoor barbeque dinner, […]

John Feffer

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How the Palestinian Muslim Brotherhood Saved Israeli Democracy from Netanyahu

How the Palestinian Muslim Brotherhood Saved Israeli Democracy from Netanyahu

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Mervat Oaf writes for al-Jazeera on how Mansour Abbas and his Muslim Brotherhood-inspired United Arab List became unlikely kingmakers in […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Jim Crow and "Lost Cause" 2.0: Trump's Big Lie and GOP Plot to Suppress the Vote

Jim Crow and “Lost Cause” 2.0: Trump’s Big Lie and GOP Plot to Suppress the Vote

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – Big Lie propaganda, that the 2020 election was stolen, rewrites history and fuels the current Republican war on democracy. […]

Dan Dinello

Epidemics
A People’s Vaccine Against a Mutating Virus and Neoliberal Rule

A People’s Vaccine Against a Mutating Virus and Neoliberal Rule

( Nicolas J. S. Davies) – A recent Yahoo News/YouGov poll found that worries about the COVID pandemic in the United States are at their […]

Nicolas J. S. Davies

Climate Change
What the Ottoman Empire can teach us about the consequences of climate change – and how drought can uproot peoples and fuel warfare

What the Ottoman Empire can teach us about the consequences of climate change – and how drought can uproot peoples and fuel warfare

By Andrea Duffy | – In the late 16th century, hundreds of bandits on horseback stormed through the countryside of Ottoman Anatolia raiding villages, inciting […]

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Capitol Insurrection in Jerusalem? Netanyahu Calls New Government a "Fraud," calls for Massive Squatter Protests

Capitol Insurrection in Jerusalem? Netanyahu Calls New Government a “Fraud,” calls for Massive Squatter Protests

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Bilal Daher reports at the Israeli newspaper Arab 48 that outgoing prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu addressed the Likud Party bloc […]

Juan Cole

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