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When even Saudi Arabia Jumps into Solar and Wind Power, You know Change is Here
Climate Crisis

When even Saudi Arabia Jumps into Solar and Wind Power, You know Change is Here

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Saudi Arabia’s massive oil deposits and its 9.53 million barrels per day (bpd) of petroleum production make it an enormous […]

How Europe is managing Guilt over Gaza: The Politics of moral Cleansing

How Europe is managing Guilt over Gaza: The Politics of moral Cleansing

08/25/2025 By Global Voices

Trump Junk: Won’t Enforce Rules for Short-Term Junk Health Insurance Plans

Trump Junk: Won’t Enforce Rules for Short-Term Junk Health Insurance Plans

08/25/2025 By F. Douglas Stephenson

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Nonviolence
America after Trump must Confront MLK’s ‘Giant Triplets of Racism, Extreme Materialism, and Militarism’

America after Trump must Confront MLK’s ‘Giant Triplets of Racism, Extreme Materialism, and Militarism’

By Andrew Bacevich | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – When Martin Luther King preached his famous sermon “Beyond Vietnam” at Riverside Church in New York City […]

Andrew J. Bacevich

Feminism
Saudi Arabia releases Women's Rights Activist Loujain al-Hathloul but Bans her Travel

Saudi Arabia releases Women’s Rights Activist Loujain al-Hathloul but Bans her Travel

(Beirut) – Saudi authorities released from prison the prominent women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul on February 10, 2021, Human Rights Watch said today. However, she […]

Human Rights Watch

Health Care
Public option in Biden plan could change the face of US health care

Public option in Biden plan could change the face of US health care

By Michael Williams | – President Joe Biden issued 10 executive orders to fight COVID-19 on his first day in office on Jan. 20, 2021. […]

The Conversation

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Top 5 Reasons for Biden to snub Israel's Netanyahu, whom he still hasn't Called

Top 5 Reasons for Biden to snub Israel’s Netanyahu, whom he still hasn’t Called

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Danny Danon, Israel’s former ambassador to the United Nations, impatiently tweeted a list of all the foreign leaders that President […]

Juan Cole

Far Right
Not just a US Domestic Threat:  Beating Back the Far Right Globally

Not just a US Domestic Threat: Beating Back the Far Right Globally

It’s time to resurrect a global anti-fascist consensus to name, shame, and throw these guys out of the game. ( Foreign Policy in Focus) – […]

John Feffer

Authoritarianism
Saudi Arabia: Can America’s Favorite Police State ever Change?

Saudi Arabia: Can America’s Favorite Police State ever Change?

( Middle East Monitor ) – The phone call to the family lasted just one minute. It came 23 months after aid worker Abdulrahman Al-Sadhan […]

Bill Law

Arab Spring
Mideast Regimes met the Arab Spring youth with Iron Fists and Sectarianization, but anti-Corruption Protests Continue

Mideast Regimes met the Arab Spring youth with Iron Fists and Sectarianization, but anti-Corruption Protests Continue

Simon Mabon | – As the popular refrain of “ash-shab yurid isqat an-nizam” rang out across the Middle East in the early months of 2011, […]

The Conversation

astronomy and outer space
First Arab Muslim Satellite enters Mars Orbit: UAE's Arabo-Futurism and its Princess Leias

First Arab Muslim Satellite enters Mars Orbit: UAE’s Arabo-Futurism and its Princess Leias

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Americans who are used to imagining Arab Muslim civilization as backward or barbaric might be surprised to hear that the […]

Juan Cole

Oceans
The Plastic Plague: Fish are eating more Microplastics, and We are eating those Fish

The Plastic Plague: Fish are eating more Microplastics, and We are eating those Fish

By Alexandra McIntur and Matthew Savoca | – Trillions of barely visible pieces of plastic are floating in the world’s oceans, from surface waters to […]

The Conversation

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