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Largest Offshore Solar Farm (1 GW) in World Goes 100% Live off China Coast
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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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Nevada's "Crescent Dune" Solar Facility will Produce Energy at Night

Nevada’s “Crescent Dune” Solar Facility will Produce Energy at Night

Jared Anderson at Breaking Energy writes of technologies for solar power storage that allow the energy generated by the sun to be released at night: […]

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Blacked Out:  Could Governments just Erase Dissidents from the Internet with a Click?

Blacked Out: Could Governments just Erase Dissidents from the Internet with a Click?

By Peter Van Buren What if Edward Snowden was made to disappear? No, I’m not suggesting some future CIA rendition effort or a who-killed-Snowden conspiracy […]

Juan Cole

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Sunni-Shiite Tensions soar in Lebanon; Hizbullah accuses Saudis in Iran Embassy Bombing

Sunni-Shiite Tensions soar in Lebanon; Hizbullah accuses Saudis in Iran Embassy Bombing

Several dramatic accusations and events have heightened Sunni-Shiite tensions in Lebanon, as the Syrian Civil War continues to spill over onto Beirut’s politics. In the […]

Juan Cole

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On the 80th Anniversary of Repeal of Prohibition, Why isn't Marijuana Legal?

On the 80th Anniversary of Repeal of Prohibition, Why isn’t Marijuana Legal?

It is the eightieth anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition. Among the many reasons for the popularity of banning alcohol in the US then were […]

Juan Cole

Dissent
The Public Professor: Dissent in Commodified Higher Education

The Public Professor: Dissent in Commodified Higher Education

by Christian Christensen The Public Professor: Dissent in Commodified Higher Education Or…What Kind of University Will My Daughter Attend in 2027? The following is the […]

Juan Cole

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Top 10 Ways the US is the Most Corrupt Country in the World

Top 10 Ways the US is the Most Corrupt Country in the World

Those ratings that castigate Afghanistan and some other poor countries as hopelessly “corrupt” always imply that the United States is not corrupt. VOA reports : […]

Juan Cole

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Israeli Blockade of 40,000 Gaza Fishermen Briefly Broken by Youth Protesters

Israeli Blockade of 40,000 Gaza Fishermen Briefly Broken by Youth Protesters

About 200 Palestinian youth ctivists briefly broke the Israeli blockade on fishing off Gaza past an arbitrary 6-mile limit on Monday. World Bulletin writes: “”We […]

Juan Cole

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Can even Colbert make us laugh at America’s tragic growing Wealth Divide?

Can even Colbert make us laugh at America’s tragic growing Wealth Divide?

  Stephen Colbert on America’s astonishing wealth divide, which has even the Wall Street Journal worried: Boing Boing gives us the statistics : “#1 The […]

Juan Cole

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Americans are 5% of World Population, consume 1/4 of its Energy (infographic)

Americans are 5% of World Population, consume 1/4 of its Energy (infographic)

Source: InternationalBusinessGuide.org

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