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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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Frankenfuel:  The Market is done with Big Oil and Coal, but will they Lumber on with Gov't Subsidies?

Frankenfuel: The Market is done with Big Oil and Coal, but will they Lumber on with Gov’t Subsidies?

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – Are the big oil stocks headed for collapse? Citizens as diverse as climate activist and 350.org founder […]

John Buell

Donald Trump
Trump's Rush to Reopen Economy is a Death Sentence for Some Minority Workers

Trump’s Rush to Reopen Economy is a Death Sentence for Some Minority Workers

By Negin Owliaei | – ( Otherwords.org) – Every morning for the last two months, I’ve checked the news in my home state of Florida […]

OtherWords

Donald Trump
Coronavirus and the End of American Exceptionalism

Coronavirus and the End of American Exceptionalism

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Remember the song “Over There”? “Over there, over there Send the word, send the word over there That the Yanks are […]

Karen J. Greenberg

Donald Trump
Male Face Masks have been the Height of Masculinity for Centuries: Why see Coronavirus Masks as Wimpy?

Male Face Masks have been the Height of Masculinity for Centuries: Why see Coronavirus Masks as Wimpy?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A recent study of the way Americans are adapting to the coronavirus found that “Men more than women agree that […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
72 Years of Birthdays for Israel,  72 Years of Catastrophe for Palestinians

72 Years of Birthdays for Israel, 72 Years of Catastrophe for Palestinians

( Middle East Monitor ) – Between 1947 and 1949, Zionist militias and the newly-formed Israeli army expelled more than half of the indigenous population […]

Asa Winstanley

Climate Crisis
Coronavirus Effect:  In One Year, Share of Coal in German Public Power Supply Cratered to 16% from 30%

Coronavirus Effect: In One Year, Share of Coal in German Public Power Supply Cratered to 16% from 30%

By Freja Eriksen | — ( Clean Energy Wire) – Coal’s share in Germany’s net public power production fell to around 16 percent in April […]

Clean Energy Wire

Epidemics
As 27 Million Lose Job-based Health Insurance, Imagine if there were No Obamacare

As 27 Million Lose Job-based Health Insurance, Imagine if there were No Obamacare

By Simon F. Haeder | – The loss of 31 million jobs due to coronvirus has an added downside: 27 million have lost job-based health […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
I guess "Islam" doesn't Hate us After All: Trump pins hopes for Vaccine on Muslim-American Slaoui

I guess “Islam” doesn’t Hate us After All: Trump pins hopes for Vaccine on Muslim-American Slaoui

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump became president in part by playing on fears, resentments and outright hatred among some segments of the American public, […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
How We Became Refugees: The Day My Grandfather Lost His Village in Palestine

How We Became Refugees: The Day My Grandfather Lost His Village in Palestine

( Middle East Monitor) – Starting on March 27, 1948, a beautiful, small Palestinian village called Beit Daras, came under Zionist militias attacks. With little […]

Ramzy Baroud

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