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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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Trump, hostage to Bolton and Pompeo, Pleads with Iran to call and Rescue Him

Trump, hostage to Bolton and Pompeo, Pleads with Iran to call and Rescue Him

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Julian Borger at The Guardian reports that Trump gave an impromptu news conference on Thursday in which he urged Iran […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
What I saw in Gaza Changed me Forever

What I saw in Gaza Changed me Forever

My true liberation as a Jewish person is bound up with the liberation of Palestinian people

contributors

Health Care
America's Sick Health Care System: Even if you Survive the Malady, the Co-Pays will Kill You

America’s Sick Health Care System: Even if you Survive the Malady, the Co-Pays will Kill You

Persistent growth of income inequality to Gilded Age levels has had a decided effect on the health of many Americans

Tomdispatch

Petroleum
The Fuel for Global Rivalries, Iran to Venezuela: They’re All Wars for Oil!

The Fuel for Global Rivalries, Iran to Venezuela: They’re All Wars for Oil!

Bolton: It will make a great difference to the US economically, if we could have US oil companies invest in and produce the oil in Venezuela.

contributors

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Thousands of Innocent Palestinians in Gaza at Risk of amputation from Israeli Sniping

Thousands of Innocent Palestinians in Gaza at Risk of amputation from Israeli Sniping

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Thousands of innocent Gaza Palestinian protesters wounded by live fire by Israeli snipers are in danger of losing limbs if […]

Juan Cole

Iran
"Ghost Tankers:" Can Iran Evade Trump's Severe Sanctions on its Oil Sales?

“Ghost Tankers:” Can Iran Evade Trump’s Severe Sanctions on its Oil Sales?

Iran has previously had barter deals with China and India

Frud Bezhan

Constitution
Before Trump invoked Executive Privilege he Should have Remembered Nixon

Before Trump invoked Executive Privilege he Should have Remembered Nixon

Nixon’s own Justice Department could not find a single example in history of anyone invoking executive privilege in an impeachment inquiry

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Kushner is Making the Palestinians an Offer they Can't Refuse

Kushner is Making the Palestinians an Offer they Can’t Refuse

By Bill Law | – On 2 May Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, was playing his cards very close to the chest at […]

Middle East Monitor

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Pompeo in Baghdad to Pressure Iraq to join Press against Iran;  Iraq declines

Pompeo in Baghdad to Pressure Iraq to join Press against Iran; Iraq declines

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – US secretary of state Mike Pompeo made a surprise four-hour visit to Baghdad on Tuesday in connection to the panic […]

Juan Cole

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