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Massive Morocco Rainstorms, Flooding: “Passing from a stable Climate System”
Climate Crisis

Massive Morocco Rainstorms, Flooding: “Passing from a stable Climate System”

Juan Cole

Gemenne said that we are passing from a relatively stable climate system to an unstable one, where extreme weather events will multiply

Steadfast Resistance under Occupation from Minneapolis to Palestine

Steadfast Resistance under Occupation from Minneapolis to Palestine

02/09/2026 By Waging Nonviolence

Our Enduring Nuclear Nightmare: The End of New START

Our Enduring Nuclear Nightmare: The End of New START

02/09/2026 By Tomdispatch

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Obama Era a new Gilded Age, with Rich Getting Richer, Poor Poorer

Obama Era a new Gilded Age, with Rich Getting Richer, Poor Poorer

(By Paul Buchheit) Anyone reviewing the data is likely to conclude that there must be some mistake. It doesn't seem possible that one out of […]

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Energy
Europe Abandoning Hydrocarbons: Closing 30% of Gas, Coal Plants in Favor of Green Energy

Europe Abandoning Hydrocarbons: Closing 30% of Gas, Coal Plants in Favor of Green Energy

(By Zachary Shahan) Europe’s Fossil Fuel Exit — 30% Of Fossil Fuel Power Capacity To Close By 2017, UBS Analysts Project (via Clean Technica) Following […]

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Arab World
"Zariya":  A. R. Rahman,  Jordan song, Nepal Buddhist Hymn

“Zariya”: A. R. Rahman, Jordan song, Nepal Buddhist Hymn

India’s MTV program “Coke Studio” (sponsored by Coca Cola) presents: Published on Aug 1, 2013 Giving a whole new spin to the term ‘world music’ […]

Juan Cole

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John McCain and Lindsey Graham Want to invade Falluja Yet Again

John McCain and Lindsey Graham Want to invade Falluja Yet Again

(By Juan Cole) There were conflicting reports on Sunday morning about whether the Iraqi government and its allied tribal levies had regained control of the […]

Juan Cole

Human Rights
Gaza: the challenges faced by the young women (Video of the Day)

Gaza: the challenges faced by the young women (Video of the Day)

France24 does what no US news channel will, reporting on the challenges facing young women in occupied Gaza Related article: Gaza power plant back online […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
The Politics of War Casualty Counts, from the "GWOT" to Syria

The Politics of War Casualty Counts, from the “GWOT” to Syria

(By Michael Munk) Counting the casualties of war is a highly political exercise. We recall the competition for promotion and decoration between US military commanders […]

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fiction
Bringing medieval Persian verse to the West: Dick Davis Interview

Bringing medieval Persian verse to the West: Dick Davis Interview

PBS Newshour’s Jeff Brown interviews Dick Davis, among the foremost Persian scholars and translators of our time, on the delights and glories of Persian poetry. […]

Juan Cole

al-Qaeda
Iraq's Sunni Civil War

Iraq’s Sunni Civil War

(By Juan Cole) The attempt launched earlier this week by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS or ISIL) to take and hold city […]

Juan Cole

No parallel organization within state can be tolerated, particularly inside judiciary: President Gül

No parallel organization within state can be tolerated, particularly inside judiciary: President Gül

President Abdullah Gül has expressed his concerns over claims relayed by several high-level officials of a ‘gang within the state’ aiming to topple the government

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