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California: Fossil Gas use Declining, replaced by Solar Plus Megabatteries
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California: Fossil Gas use Declining, replaced by Solar Plus Megabatteries

Juan Cole

Two-thirds of California’s electricity retail sales are now generated by renewables.

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From Sykes-Picot to Silicon Valley: Why Middle East Fault Lines now run through American Tech

From Sykes-Picot to Silicon Valley: Why Middle East Fault Lines now run through American Tech

12/19/2025 By Jasim Al-Azzawi

“We cannot Negotiate with the Melting Point of Ice:” World’s Ice Sheets shed 640 bn. Tons in 12 Months

“We cannot Negotiate with the Melting Point of Ice:” World’s Ice Sheets shed 640 bn. Tons in 12 Months

12/19/2025 By The Conversation

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Emissions of methane – a greenhouse gas far more potent than carbon dioxide – are rising dangerously

Emissions of methane – a greenhouse gas far more potent than carbon dioxide – are rising dangerously

By Pep Canadell, Ben Poulter, Marielle Saunois, Paul Krummel, and Rob Jackson | – Fossil fuels and agriculture are driving a dangerous acceleration in methane […]

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Epidemics
Thousands of Israelis Protest, furious at Netanyahu's having Provoked 2nd Wave of Covid by Opening Schools, Businesses in May

Thousands of Israelis Protest, furious at Netanyahu’s having Provoked 2nd Wave of Covid by Opening Schools, Businesses in May

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A few thousand demonstrators gathered in front of the home of Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Balfour St. in […]

Juan Cole

Epidemics
The End of Private Health Insurance? Covid Crash shows Why we Need Medicare for All

The End of Private Health Insurance? Covid Crash shows Why we Need Medicare for All

Gainesville, Florida: The COVID-19 pandemic and its economic consequences have caused the greatest losses in health insurance enrollment in U.S. history: 5.4 million laid-off workers […]

F. Douglas Stephenson

Epidemics
America's Plague of Inequality and Homelessness meets the Coronavirus Plague

America’s Plague of Inequality and Homelessness meets the Coronavirus Plague

(Tomdispatch.com ) – The novel SARS-CoV-2 has roared through the American landscape leaving physical, emotional, and economic devastation in its wake. By early July, known […]

Rajan Menon

Afghanistan
Afghanistan's COVID-19 crisis has been fuelled by armed conflict

Afghanistan’s COVID-19 crisis has been fuelled by armed conflict

By Christiane Wilke and Mohd Khalid Naseemi | – The COVID-19 pandemic is revealing the inequities in access to health care around the globe. In […]

The Conversation

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The Beinart Controversy over the End of the Two-State Solution and Juan Cole On Palestinian Statelessness

The Beinart Controversy over the End of the Two-State Solution and Juan Cole On Palestinian Statelessness

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Peter Beinart, a professor of journalism at the City University of New York, has caused a stir in the past […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Trump vs Fauci? Undermining Science for Cult of Personality Politics is Taking America Down

Trump vs Fauci? Undermining Science for Cult of Personality Politics is Taking America Down

The Washington Post reports that Trump team is focused on undermining Dr. Fauci’s credibility, leading me to wonder how that should even be possible? The […]

Martin Powers

Israel/ Palestine
Forging Greater Israel:  The Annexation of Palestine isn't one Event, it is Ongoing

Forging Greater Israel: The Annexation of Palestine isn’t one Event, it is Ongoing

Tucson, AZ (Special to Informed Comment) – July 1st came and went and Netanyahu made no formal statement regarding annexation. That left many journalists, politicians, […]

Jennifer Loewenstein

Environment
Actually, Mr Trump, it's stronger environmental regulation that makes economic winners

Actually, Mr Trump, it’s stronger environmental regulation that makes economic winners

By Ou Yang | – Donald Trump has ordered US federal agencies to bypass environmental protection laws and fast-track pipeline, highway and other infrastructure projects. […]

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