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Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Two-Thirds of Americans Prioritize Wind, Solar, favor Gov't Incentives, as 54% see Climate Change as Dire Threat

Two-Thirds of Americans Prioritize Wind, Solar, favor Gov’t Incentives, as 54% see Climate Change as Dire Threat

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Pew Research Center has released the results of a new US poll on climate change and green energy. It gives reason for hope, though some of the results are a little discouraging. The poll found that 67% of Americans want to prioritize green energy such as wind and solar. […]

Batteries
With Biden's IRA Incentives, Companies plan 145 Gigawatts of New Clean Energy in US

With Biden’s IRA Incentives, Companies plan 145 Gigawatts of New Clean Energy in US

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A new report by the American Clean Power Association (ACP) says that in the second quarter the industry rebounded from the slight dip in new green energy in the first quarter, attributed to supply chain problems and tariff difficulties. Impressive strides were made in the most recent quarter, with over […]

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Israel to deny Palestinian-Israelis Preparation for University, in Exact Parallel to Apartheid South Africa

Israel to deny Palestinian-Israelis Preparation for University, in Exact Parallel to Apartheid South Africa

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Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – White Power nationalism in South Africa during the Apartheid period from the 1940s until the early 1990s demanded that the 20% of the population that was white control the lives of the 68% of the population that was Black. (Actually, during this era the whites declined to only 13% by […]

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Israeli Minister wants to give “a medal” to Jewish Power Extremist who Allegedly shot to death an unarmed Palestinian Youth

Israeli Minister wants to give “a medal” to Jewish Power Extremist who Allegedly shot to death an unarmed Palestinian Youth

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Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that on Friday evening, Israeli squatters in the Palestinian West Bank went wilding at a nearby Palestinian hamlet, Burqa, in the northwest of Nablus governorate, attacking the Palestinian inhabitants as Israeli troops gave them cover. We might note that the settling of Israelis in […]

Climate Crisis
A Quarter of New Car Sales in California is now Electric: Take that, Russia, Iran and Saudi Arabia!

A Quarter of New Car Sales in California is now Electric: Take that, Russia, Iran and Saudi Arabia!

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The California Energy Commission reports that in the second quarter of this year, 25% of new vehicle registrations in that state were zero emissions electric cars. Moving rapidly to electric vehicles makes the US more secure geopolitically, since oil states such as Saudi Arabia and Russia can no longer use […]

Climate Crisis
Oceans Hit Hottest Average Temperature ever Recorded, endangering Ecosystems on which We Depend

Oceans Hit Hottest Average Temperature ever Recorded, endangering Ecosystems on which We Depend

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The world’s oceans hit an average temperature of 20.96°C (69.728°F ) this week, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service. It is the highest average ocean temperature ever recorded, beating a previous record from 2016. So reports Rosie Frost at Euronews. Climate scientists at the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change […]

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Israeli Extremists Shamefully propose "Puerto Rican" Model for Palestinians

Israeli Extremists Shamefully propose “Puerto Rican” Model for Palestinians

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Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Yair Wallach in a post at X notes that Jewish Power Party member Amihay Eliyahu proposes that Palestinians be treated by Israel as Puerto Ricans are by the United States. This is a horrible and outrageous idea from the extremist corner of the Israeli far right, which Tamir Pardo, a […]

Climate Crisis
Climate Change is the New Mideast Extremism -- Iraq Hottest Place on Earth, as Iran goes into Lockdown

Climate Change is the New Mideast Extremism — Iraq Hottest Place on Earth, as Iran goes into Lockdown

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The deadly effects of ideological extremism in the Middle East for the past few decades have caused governments and journalists to focus on it. The Arabic word is al-taṭarruf. I was interested, however, to see the word put to a different purpose in a Sky News Arabia article , where […]

Bill of Rights
Trump's Indictment for Jan. 6:  Revisiting "Psychopathocracy"

Trump’s Indictment for Jan. 6: Revisiting “Psychopathocracy”

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A Grand Jury empaneled by Special Prosecutor Jack Smith has issued an indictment (full text here) against Donald John Trump on four counts, Smith delivered a statement, saying, “Today, an indictment was unsealed charging Donald J. Trump with conspiring to defraud the United States, conspiring to disenfranchise voters, and conspiring […]

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