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Largest Offshore Solar Farm (1 GW) in World Goes 100% Live off China Coast
China

Largest Offshore Solar Farm (1 GW) in World Goes 100% Live off China Coast

Juan Cole

five miles off Dongying is where China Energy CHN Energy has located its $1.2 billion offshore solar panel array, the largest in the world

How to turn Extreme Weather Tragedies into Climate Victories

How to turn Extreme Weather Tragedies into Climate Victories

01/20/2026 By Waging Nonviolence

Yemen: The Human Cost of Imperial Ambitions

Yemen: The Human Cost of Imperial Ambitions

01/20/2026 By Foreign Policy in Focus

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Human Rights
When will Israel Stop Shooting at Gaza Civilians?

When will Israel Stop Shooting at Gaza Civilians?

(By Sarah Leah Whitson, Human Rights Watch) (Jerusalem) – The Israeli military should immediately stop shooting at Palestinian civilians inside Gaza. Israeli military forces have […]

Juan Cole

censorship
How Iran's Gadget Bloggers Became Victims of the Revolutionary Guard

How Iran’s Gadget Bloggers Became Victims of the Revolutionary Guard

Narenji (“Orange”) was Iran’s top website for gadget news, edited daily by a team of tech bloggers who worked from a cramped office in the country’s city of Kerman. The site was targeted at Iran’s growing audience of technology enthusiasts. Like Gizmodo…

Juan Cole

Featured
Top 5 Signs Cliven Bundy is Wrong about African-Americans

Top 5 Signs Cliven Bundy is Wrong about African-Americans

Cliven Bundy told the NYT, “They abort their young children, they put their young men in jail, because they never learned how to pick cotton. […]

Juan Cole

media
Jon Stewart v. Hannity on Bundy & Law Enforcement: “Proportionality”

Jon Stewart v. Hannity on Bundy & Law Enforcement: “Proportionality”

Jon Stewart examines whether Sean Hannity really is concerned, as he says, only with the disproportionate use of force by law enforcement, in the Cliven […]

Juan Cole

Dissent
The Cost of Whistleblowing: Being consigned to the Minimum-Wage Underclass

The Cost of Whistleblowing: Being consigned to the Minimum-Wage Underclass

(By Peter van Buren via Tomdispatch) There are many sides to whistleblowing. The one that most people don’t know about is the very personal cost, […]

Juan Cole

racism
GOP Divided on Whether to Support Cliven Bundy's "Negro" Remarks

GOP Divided on Whether to Support Cliven Bundy’s “Negro” Remarks

Cliven Bundy wonders if blacks were ‘better off as slaves’: Republican supporters start fleeing (via The Moderate Voice) More responsible Republicans are now starting to […]

Juan Cole

Islam
The Coming Holy War over al-Aqsa Mosque/ Temple Mount in Jerusalem

The Coming Holy War over al-Aqsa Mosque/ Temple Mount in Jerusalem

Events of the past week in Jerusalem are extremely troubling, and indeed for the past four months. The al-Aqsa Mosque is the third holiest site […]

Juan Cole

Asia
Is Obama right that America's Future is in Asia, not the Middle East?

Is Obama right that America’s Future is in Asia, not the Middle East?

(by Juan Cole) Barack Obama, brought up in Hawaii and having lived as a child in Indonesia, is the first Pacific president, and his current […]

Juan Cole

Internet
FCC Plots Murder of Blogs on Behalf of Billionaire Media Lords

FCC Plots Murder of Blogs on Behalf of Billionaire Media Lords

Breaking: FCC Will Announce the Death of Net Neutrality Tomorrow (via Americans Against The Tea Party) If you thought corporations played a big role in […]

Juan Cole

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