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Could Trump’s Diversion of Venezuelan Oil to US Save the Iranian Regime?
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Could Trump’s Diversion of Venezuelan Oil to US Save the Iranian Regime?

Juan Cole

China imported 389,000 barrels per day of Venezuelan oil in 2025, about 4% of its total

‘Neither Gaza nor Lebanon!’ Iranian Unrest is about more than the Economy

‘Neither Gaza nor Lebanon!’ Iranian Unrest is about more than the Economy

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Thousands march in Minneapolis to protest ICE after Shooting

Thousands march in Minneapolis to protest ICE after Shooting

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Some Saudis Kiss their Camels to defy Gov't MERS Warning

Some Saudis Kiss their Camels to defy Gov’t MERS Warning

Saudi homes in on camels in bid to combat MERS (via AFP) Saudi authorities have issued fresh warnings on how to handle the desert kingdom’s […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
Picture This: U.S. Cities Under 12 feet of Sea Level Rise

Picture This: U.S. Cities Under 12 feet of Sea Level Rise

By Climate Central Maps are one way to understand what collapse of West Antarctic glaciers could eventually mean. Photos show it another way. In 2013, Climate Central shared some of its sea level rise mapping data with artist Nickolay Lamm so that…

Juan Cole

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Fracking Victims demand Environmental Protection Agency Intervention

Fracking Victims demand Environmental Protection Agency Intervention

(By Lauren McCauley) The 150 million Americans routinely exposed to toxic air as a result of oil and gas drilling need better protection from their […]

Juan Cole

Economy
5 Reasons India's new BJP ("Tea Party") Government may not be so Great for Business

5 Reasons India’s new BJP (“Tea Party”) Government may not be so Great for Business

(By Juan Cole) The victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in India’s elections is being hailed in some Western media as a hopeful sign […]

Juan Cole

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FCC Votes To "Fast Track" Death Of Net Neutrality

FCC Votes To “Fast Track” Death Of Net Neutrality

There’s good news: the nationwide outcry against the Federal Communications Commission’s troublesome proposal for new Open Internet rules is clearly having an impact. At a public meeting this morning, commissioners were factoring in questions that…

Juan Cole

Climate Change
On Sunday, 75% of Germany's Electricity came from Renewables

On Sunday, 75% of Germany’s Electricity came from Renewables

En route to its 2050 Energiewende goal of 80% of the nation’s power being supplied by renewables, especially spurred on by the phaseout of nuclear reactors, Germany broke another renewable energy record on Sunday, May 11, 2014. Europe’s biggest…

Juan Cole

Africa
Sudan judge orders Christian woman to hang for apostasy

Sudan judge orders Christian woman to hang for apostasy

A Sudanese judge on Thursday sentenced a heavily pregnant Christian woman to hang for apostasy, a ruling which Britain denounced as “barbaric” and left the United States “deeply disturbed”. Born to a Muslim father, the woman was convicted under the…

Juan Cole

Arab Spring
#FreeAzyz spreads on social media as Tunisian blogger-revolutionary is arrested for pot

#FreeAzyz spreads on social media as Tunisian blogger-revolutionary is arrested for pot

(Via Your Middle East) Smoking weed or hash is punishable with between one and five years in jail in Tunisia, a law currently used against […]

Juan Cole

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Mass Protests, Strikes in Turkey over Erdogan's Neoliberal Response to Miner Deaths

Mass Protests, Strikes in Turkey over Erdogan’s Neoliberal Response to Miner Deaths

(By Juan Cole) Turkey’s Public Workers Union Confederation announced a one-day strike to demand better worker safety and political protests have broken out Friday in […]

Juan Cole

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