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America may have invaded Iraq for its Oil, but Solar Power is what Iraqis now Want
Climate Crisis

America may have invaded Iraq for its Oil, but Solar Power is what Iraqis now Want

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Iraqi farmers, tired of high electricity bills and frequent blackouts, are turning to solar panels, according to Khalid Al-Mousuly at […]

Despite Efforts to Shift the Blame, Israeli Policies Are Starving Children

Despite Efforts to Shift the Blame, Israeli Policies Are Starving Children

08/21/2025 By Human Rights Watch

We’ll all Feel the Abrupt Changes Striking Antarctica Sea Ice and Ocean Currents

We’ll all Feel the Abrupt Changes Striking Antarctica Sea Ice and Ocean Currents

08/21/2025 By The Conversation

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Climate Change
Green Technology alone Won't Save us: We need an Economic Revolution To Stop Climate Crisis

Green Technology alone Won’t Save us: We need an Economic Revolution To Stop Climate Crisis

By Christine Corlet Walker | – You may have missed it, but a recent report declared that the main strategy of world leaders for tackling […]

The Conversation

racism
The Sinister New Nationalism of the Republican Party

The Sinister New Nationalism of the Republican Party

The party’s assault on “globalists” and “cosmopolitans” pushes against internationalism when it’s needed most.

John Feffer

Featured
America's Shame: 15,549 Gun Homicides in US in 2017; 32 (160) in UK

America’s Shame: 15,549 Gun Homicides in US in 2017; 32 (160) in UK

Revised We are reeling from back-to-back mass shootings, at least one of them an explicit manifestation of white nationalist terrorism in which Americans of a […]

Juan Cole

Iran
The Biggest Losers in Trump-Iran Crisis?  Gulf States.  Biggest Winner? Vladimir Putin

The Biggest Losers in Trump-Iran Crisis? Gulf States. Biggest Winner? Vladimir Putin

By Marwan Kabalan | – It is in the nature of crises, both long term and temporary, for losers and winners to emerge. It is […]

Middle East Monitor

Pentagon
More Money, Fewer Jobs: Why Lavishing Billions on the Pentagon won’t Help Employment

More Money, Fewer Jobs: Why Lavishing Billions on the Pentagon won’t Help Employment

By Nia Harris, Cassandra Stimpson, and Ben Freeman | – (Tomdispatch.com ) – A Marilyn has once again seduced a president. This time, though, it’s […]

Tomdispatch

Donald Trump
Philosopher Slavoj Žižek thinks Trump is in a Perverse Way good For U.S.; Americans Disagree

Philosopher Slavoj Žižek thinks Trump is in a Perverse Way good For U.S.; Americans Disagree

Says Backing Trump Is Right. Most Americans Would Disagree

Michael Slager

Donald Trump
White Supremacist Terrorism strikes Again in the Age of Trump and Putin

White Supremacist Terrorism strikes Again in the Age of Trump and Putin

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The slaughter of 20 persons in and around a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, by a virulent white nationalist on […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
From Boris Johnson to Trump, will Western Conservatives go on Supporting Israeli Colonialism in Palestine to the Hilt?

From Boris Johnson to Trump, will Western Conservatives go on Supporting Israeli Colonialism in Palestine to the Hilt?

By Muhammad Hussein | – When Boris Johnson was voted in as leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom by […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Change
Be Afraid, Very Afraid: Greenland Ice Sheets Cascading into Ocean 50 Years Ahead of Schedule

Be Afraid, Very Afraid: Greenland Ice Sheets Cascading into Ocean 50 Years Ahead of Schedule

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Amid the European heat wave, Ruth Mottram of the Danish Meteorological Institute set off a panic this week when she […]

Juan Cole

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