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2025 Climate Good News: Sustainables met all new Demand, EVs 25% of New Car Sales, Global Heating Projections fell to 2.8º C.
Climate Crisis

2025 Climate Good News: Sustainables met all new Demand, EVs 25% of New Car Sales, Global Heating Projections fell to 2.8º C.

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The most significant green energy good news stories we covered in 2025

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In the Global Race for Electric Vehicle Dominance, the US is Falling Way Behind

In the Global Race for Electric Vehicle Dominance, the US is Falling Way Behind

12/29/2025 By Yale Climate Connections

Syria’s incomplete security Transition has left gaps for Islamic State to Exploit

Syria’s incomplete security Transition has left gaps for Islamic State to Exploit

12/29/2025 By The Conversation

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Christianity
Pope Francis hosts Israeli, Palestinian Leaders as "Brothers"

Pope Francis hosts Israeli, Palestinian Leaders as “Brothers”

Deborah Lutterbeck reports: “Pope Francis, Israeli President Shimon Peres and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas attend a peace prayer meeting in “neutral” Vatican gardens.” Reuters: “Pope […]

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Iraq
Iraq: 450,000 have fled al-Anbar as Gov't Deploys Militias against al-Qaeda

Iraq: 450,000 have fled al-Anbar as Gov’t Deploys Militias against al-Qaeda

Euronews reports: “Security slips further in Iraq as car bombs hit Baghdad” Ahmad Hadi gives the background at Niqash.org Members of an extremist Shiite Muslim […]

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Barack Obama
Student Debt: Blame Law-Makers, Tax-Shirking Rich, War on Drugs, not Universities

Student Debt: Blame Law-Makers, Tax-Shirking Rich, War on Drugs, not Universities

By Juan Cole In honor of President Obama’s support for Senator Elizabeth Warren’s bill to address the student debt crisis by offering students with older […]

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Afghanistan
Dear Sen. McCain:  No, the Taliban Prisoners didn’t Carry out 9/11; but you Supported Muslim Radicals

Dear Sen. McCain: No, the Taliban Prisoners didn’t Carry out 9/11; but you Supported Muslim Radicals

By Juan Cole Sen. John McCain on Sunday maintained that President Obama, in releasing the five officials who had served in the Islamic Emirate of […]

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Constitution
5 Falsehoods Defenders of NSA keep Repeating that Destroy their Credibility

5 Falsehoods Defenders of NSA keep Repeating that Destroy their Credibility

By Cindy Cohn and Nadia Kayyali Over the past year, as the Snowden revelations have rolled out, the government and its apologists have developed a […]

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Economy
Despite dire predictions, Denver crime falls over 10 percent in wake of pot legalization

Despite dire predictions, Denver crime falls over 10 percent in wake of pot legalization

Despite dire predictions by anti-marijuana activists, overall crime rates in the city of Denver are down more than five months after legal marijuana sales began in the Rocky Mountain state. According to the Denver Department of Public Safety, rates…

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Apartheid
Prelude to Ethnic Cleansing?  Israel Plans 3200 more Squatter homes on Palestinian Land

Prelude to Ethnic Cleansing? Israel Plans 3200 more Squatter homes on Palestinian Land

Israel huge new settlement push raises Palestinian ire (via AFP) Israel unveiled plans for 3,200 settler homes Thursday in retaliation for the formation of a […]

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Arab Spring
Egypt, Syria, Libya . . . . What is the Appeal of Phoney Elections in the Middle East?

Egypt, Syria, Libya . . . . What is the Appeal of Phoney Elections in the Middle East?

By Juan Cole The world has been treated to a whole series of “elections” in the Middle East recently. Iraq had parliamentary elections, Libya’s parliament […]

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Christians
How Reagan subverted the meaning of D-Day & the New Deal of the Greatest Generation

How Reagan subverted the meaning of D-Day & the New Deal of the Greatest Generation

The following is an excerpt from Harvey J. Kaye’s The Fight for the Four Freedoms: What Made FDR and the Greatest Generation Truly Great (Simon & Schuster, 2014). On June 6, 1984, President Ronald Reagan went to Normandy, France, to speak at events…

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