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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.
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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.

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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

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US Economic Policy in Afghanistan Doomed it:  From Dogmatic Privatization to Neglect of Rural Sector

US Economic Policy in Afghanistan Doomed it: From Dogmatic Privatization to Neglect of Rural Sector

(By Graciana del Castillo via The Boston Review) . . . The promises made by President Bush in April 2002 to help rebuild Afghanistan in […]

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Climate Change
Rep. Cathy Rodgers Exemplifies GOP: Benefit from Gov't yourself, Deny Benefits to Others

Rep. Cathy Rodgers Exemplifies GOP: Benefit from Gov’t yourself, Deny Benefits to Others

(By Juan Cole) Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers in giving her response to President Obama’s State of the Union message exemplified everything wrong with today’s Republican […]

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European Union
Bad for the Jews:  Israeli Annexation of Palestinian West Bank, Scarlett Johansson and BDS

Bad for the Jews: Israeli Annexation of Palestinian West Bank, Scarlett Johansson and BDS

(By Juan Cole) The determination of the Likud Party to annex the Palestinian West Bank is damaging the interests of world Jewry. This harm is […]

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censorship
Increasingly Paranoid Egyptian Junta Jails 20 Journalists for Reporting News i.e. Conspiracy

Increasingly Paranoid Egyptian Junta Jails 20 Journalists for Reporting News i.e. Conspiracy

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al-Qaeda
330 US drone strikes in Pakistan recorded in Leaked official document

330 US drone strikes in Pakistan recorded in Leaked official document

(By Alice K. Ross) The Bureau is today publishing a leaked official document that records details of over 300 drone strikes, including their locations and […]

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History
La Follette’s Anti-Imperialism is Still Controversial at the Wall Street Journal

La Follette’s Anti-Imperialism is Still Controversial at the Wall Street Journal

(By Richard Drake) On 11 January 2014, Lewis Gould reviewed my book, The Education of an Anti-Imperialist: Robert La Follette and U.S. Expansion, in The […]

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Climate Change
Solving the Mideast Water and Energy Crises:  Large-Scale Solar Desalinization in UAE

Solving the Mideast Water and Energy Crises: Large-Scale Solar Desalinization in UAE

(Via CleanTechnica) 120 MW Solar Power Plant In The Works In The UAE (via Clean Technica) Utico Middle East, a solar developer currently working to […]

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Climate Change
Obama as Unreliable Narrator on Climate Action: from SOTU to NSA spying at Copenhagen

Obama as Unreliable Narrator on Climate Action: from SOTU to NSA spying at Copenhagen

(By Juan Cole) When President Obama looked us in the eye and said that the US is not engaged in electronic surveillance for economic reasons, […]

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Circle Cafe serves up global tastes in a homely space

Circle Cafe serves up global tastes in a homely space

Stepping into Circle Cafe in Al Raha Gardens on a cold winter’s night is a relief. The space is warm and toasty, unlike most restaurants […]

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