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China’s Power Sector Emissions fall 5.8% in Q1, as Renewables rapidly Replace Coal
China

China’s Power Sector Emissions fall 5.8% in Q1, as Renewables rapidly Replace Coal

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Lauri Myllyvirta writes at Carbon Brief that China’s CO2 emissions over-all fell by 1% in the past 12 months, and […]

For all Trump’s new Mideast Contracts, Two Big Deals Elude Him

For all Trump’s new Mideast Contracts, Two Big Deals Elude Him

05/17/2025 By Shahram Akbarzadeh

Trump and Bukele: The Few Repressing the Many

Trump and Bukele: The Few Repressing the Many

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Trump Talks tough with Journalists but Lets Real Strongmen like Turkey's Erdogan Walk all over Him

Trump Talks tough with Journalists but Lets Real Strongmen like Turkey’s Erdogan Walk all over Him

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Last week during the visit of the Finnish president, Trump acted out with a journalist, James Mason of Reuters who […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Baghdad’s Youthquake: Iraq’s Young Protestors ‘Have Nothing Left To Lose’

Baghdad’s Youthquake: Iraq’s Young Protestors ‘Have Nothing Left To Lose’

(Niqash.org ) – Anti-government protests in Baghdad were led by the younger generation, one that has grown up under military rule, lived a more liberal […]

Mustafa Habib

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How the Saudi Oil Field Attack Overturned America’s Apple Cart

How the Saudi Oil Field Attack Overturned America’s Apple Cart

(Foreign Policy in Focus) – For all their overwhelming firepower, the U.S. and its allies can cause a lot of misery in the Middle East, […]

Conn M. Hallinan

Constitution
Why Trump's bad Nixon imitation may cost him the presidency

Why Trump’s bad Nixon imitation may cost him the presidency

By Ken Hughes | – Whatever Donald Trump does, Richard Nixon usually did it first and better. Nixon got a foreign government’s help to win […]

The Conversation

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Iraqi Gov't Teeters as Protest Death toll Rises to 100, with 4,000 Wounded

Iraqi Gov’t Teeters as Protest Death toll Rises to 100, with 4,000 Wounded

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Protests broke out again in Baghdad on Saturday, leaving 15 dead. The government had shut down the internet a few […]

Juan Cole

Saudi Arabia
Saudi looks ‘positively’ at Yemeni truce proposal

Saudi looks ‘positively’ at Yemeni truce proposal

Saudi Prince Khalid Bin Salman believes that his country looks “positively” at the truce proposal announced by Houthis in Yemen, Arabi21.com reported on Friday. In […]

Middle East Monitor

China
Solar Power:  How China can Spur Regional Growth without more Carbon Emissions

Solar Power: How China can Spur Regional Growth without more Carbon Emissions

By Kathryn G Logan, Shi Chen and Xi Lu | – China has invested US$90 billion in the countries involved in its Belt and Road […]

The Conversation

Displaced and Refugees
Trail of Tears: Refugees at Our Southern Border

Trail of Tears: Refugees at Our Southern Border

“There were many trails of tears all over North America of indigenous peoples who were forcibly removed by government forces. The indigenous peoples who are […]

H. Patricia Hynes

China
Trump, head of GOP, demands Chinese Communist Party Prosecute Businessman for Crime of Making Money

Trump, head of GOP, demands Chinese Communist Party Prosecute Businessman for Crime of Making Money

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A particularly unperceptive and unfeeling wag came up with the bon mot defining a “socialist” as someone kept up at […]

Juan Cole

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