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Turning Point: Wind and Solar outstrip Fossil Fuels in Europe for First Time
Climate Crisis

Turning Point: Wind and Solar outstrip Fossil Fuels in Europe for First Time

Juan Cole

It is another clear piece of proof that humanity can get to carbon neutral by 2050 if it wants to.

Can American Youth Organize to save us from Despotism?

Can American Youth Organize to save us from Despotism?

02/04/2026 By Liz Theoharis

Inside the Challenges faced by Journalists covering Iran’s Protests

Inside the Challenges faced by Journalists covering Iran’s Protests

02/04/2026 By The Conversation

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Israel/ Palestine
Is a Third Palestinian Uprising on its Way?

Is a Third Palestinian Uprising on its Way?

(By Ruthie Blum) On December 25, Ali Jarbawi published his blockbuster Op-Ed “The Coming Intifada” with The New York Times. ”We Palestinians are living through […]

contributors

art and photography
Street Kebab Chef in Mosul, Iraq, 1903 (Photo of the Day)

Street Kebab Chef in Mosul, Iraq, 1903 (Photo of the Day)

From M. E. Hume-Griffith and A. Hume, Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia: An Account of an Englishwoman’s Eight Years’ Residence Amongst the […]

Juan Cole

Dissent
Egyptian Military Junta Jumps the Shark, Interrogates Islamist Muppet

Egyptian Military Junta Jumps the Shark, Interrogates Islamist Muppet

(By Juan Cole) When the venerable al-Ahram newspaper, then under the control of the government of Hosni Mubarak, published the allegation during the 2011 revolution […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
Solar Ascendancy: Minnesota Court Ruling for Solar over Gas a Harbinger of Things to Come

Solar Ascendancy: Minnesota Court Ruling for Solar over Gas a Harbinger of Things to Come

(By Juan Cole) Minnesota Judge Eric Lipman found that solar is a better deal than natural gas for Xcel Energy, permitting Geronimo Energy to construct […]

Juan Cole

Domestic Surveillance
Apple: We didn't help NSA put the Dropoutjeep Backdoor in our iPhones

Apple: We didn’t help NSA put the Dropoutjeep Backdoor in our iPhones

(By Jon Queally) Apple, the company giant behind the iconic iPhone, declared on Monday that is has never assisted the NSA in its efforts to […]

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Turkey
Turkey's Secretive Gulen Movement Challenges its Prime Minister as Religious Right Splits

Turkey’s Secretive Gulen Movement Challenges its Prime Minister as Religious Right Splits

(By Alexander Christie-Miller) The Gulen movement: a self-exiled imam challenges Turkey’s Erdogan (via The Christian Science Monitor) The man some see as the architect of […]

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India
Tagore's "The New Year" (Poem of the Day)

Tagore’s “The New Year” (Poem of the Day)

(By Rabindranath Tagore) The New Year LIKE FRUIT, shaken free by an impatient wind from the veils of its mother flower, thou comest, New Year, […]

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Bahrain
America's Foreign Policy Challenges in the Middle East, 2014

America’s Foreign Policy Challenges in the Middle East, 2014

Those who suggest that the United States as a superpower is weaker in the Middle East today than nine years ago overestimate the impact on […]

Juan Cole

Turkey hopeful of ties with EU during Greek presidency

Turkey hopeful of ties with EU during Greek presidency

The Turkish government believes that ties with the EU could be further boosted during the rotating presidency of Greece and Italy in 2014

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