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Trump never saw a Wind Farm in China, but Beijing has half of all Installed Wind Capacity and will Eat America’s Lunch in this Industry
China

Trump never saw a Wind Farm in China, but Beijing has half of all Installed Wind Capacity and will Eat America’s Lunch in this Industry

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The dufus-in-chief perorated on Friday once again on wind power, complaining that the components are made in China but that […]

The Gaza Genocide is still far from being condemned in the West’s Rhetoric

The Gaza Genocide is still far from being condemned in the West’s Rhetoric

07/05/2025 By Ramona Wadi

Comics and Graphic Novels can empower Refugees to tell their Stories on their own Terms

Comics and Graphic Novels can empower Refugees to tell their Stories on their own Terms

07/05/2025 By The Conversation

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Climate Change
Scientists: Certain that Human-Caused Climate Change Threatens our Planet (Queally)

Scientists: Certain that Human-Caused Climate Change Threatens our Planet (Queally)

Jon Queally writes at Commondreams.org “Unequivocal.” If the public and policymakers want a single adjective to describe the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Why US Clout in the Middle East is Gone (Hiro)

Why US Clout in the Middle East is Gone (Hiro)

Dilip Hiro writes at Tomdispatch.com: What if the sole superpower on the planet makes its will known — repeatedly — and finds that no one […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Why Israel’s Plan to Bomb Iran is more Dangerous to Israel than Obama-Rouhani Diplomacy

Why Israel’s Plan to Bomb Iran is more Dangerous to Israel than Obama-Rouhani Diplomacy

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has made no secret of his dismay that the Obama administration is entering into what look like serious negotiations with […]

Juan Cole

US politics
You Can have Obamacare, or You can have Cruzcare (Jamiol Cartoon)

You Can have Obamacare, or You can have Cruzcare (Jamiol Cartoon)

Courtesy Jamiol’s world

Juan Cole

Iran
Is Iran out of the US War Queue?  The Twilight of the Hawks

Is Iran out of the US War Queue? The Twilight of the Hawks

The short telephone conversation between US President Barack Obama and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Friday may or may not lead to a successful diplomatic […]

Juan Cole

Syria
Where did Syria get its Chemical Weapons in the First Place? (Brühl)

Where did Syria get its Chemical Weapons in the First Place? (Brühl)

Jannis Brühl writes at ProPublica In the wake of a recent Russian-U.S. deal averting American airstrikes, Syria has begun to answer questions about its chemical […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Stand up to Global Warming or just Observe it?  Ice Cover down 40% since 1980 (Naidoo@ Moyers)

Stand up to Global Warming or just Observe it? Ice Cover down 40% since 1980 (Naidoo@ Moyers)

Bill Moyers interviews Kumi Naidoo of Greenpeace International on the urgency of action on climate change: The program’s blurb: “On this week’s broadcast, the charismatic […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
With a Solar Minimum and La Nina’s, Why isn’t it Really, Really Cold?

With a Solar Minimum and La Nina’s, Why isn’t it Really, Really Cold?

2013 is witnessing another year of very low sunspot activity, showing that we are in a years-long solar minimum. It may not last much longer, […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Dear President Obama:  Some American Exceptionalism is nothing to be Proud Of (Engelhardt)

Dear President Obama: Some American Exceptionalism is nothing to be Proud Of (Engelhardt)

Tom Engelhardt writes at Tomdispatch.com “But when, with modest effort and risk, we can stop children from being gassed to death, and thereby make our […]

Juan Cole

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