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California: Fossil Gas use Declining, replaced by Solar Plus Megabatteries
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California: Fossil Gas use Declining, replaced by Solar Plus Megabatteries

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Two-thirds of California’s electricity retail sales are now generated by renewables.

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1/4 of Syrian Expat Refugees Have Returned, but many to Destroyed Homes, Land Disputes

1/4 of Syrian Expat Refugees Have Returned, but many to Destroyed Homes, Land Disputes

12/20/2025 By The Conversation

Israel’s Airstrikes on Lebanese Reconstruction Equipment, Factories are War Crimes

Israel’s Airstrikes on Lebanese Reconstruction Equipment, Factories are War Crimes

12/20/2025 By Human Rights Watch

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Did the Man who Tried to buy our Presidential Election Get rich by Bribing Communist China? (Engelberg)

Did the Man who Tried to buy our Presidential Election Get rich by Bribing Communist China? (Engelberg)

Stephen Engelberg writes at ProPublica Last week’s admission by Sheldon Adelson’s casino company that it had “likely” violated provisions of the federal law barring U.S. […]

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Iraq
Mission Accomplished: Iraq as America’s biggest Blunder (Van Buren)

Mission Accomplished: Iraq as America’s biggest Blunder (Van Buren)

Peter van Buren writes at Tomdispatch.com I was there. And “there” was nowhere. And nowhere was the place to be if you wanted to see […]

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Syria
Syrian Rebels capture UN Troops, face Raqqah bombings, are pledged UK Armored Trucks

Syrian Rebels capture UN Troops, face Raqqah bombings, are pledged UK Armored Trucks

The Syrian civil war heated up on several fronts on Wednesday. UK Foreign Secretary William Hague on Wednesday painted a horrific picture of the situation […]

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Iran
Venezuela and the Middle East after Chavez

Venezuela and the Middle East after Chavez

The foreign policy of late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez imagined that socialism and anti-imperialism are the same thing, and that he could lead a new […]

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Syria
The Syrian Civil War comes to Iraq, as 8 Iraqi and 48 Syrian Troops are Killed on Iraqi Soil

The Syrian Civil War comes to Iraq, as 8 Iraqi and 48 Syrian Troops are Killed on Iraqi Soil

So on Saturday, Syrian rebels in the east of the country attacked another government checkpoint along the Iraqi border, al-Ya`rabiya, and took it. Some of […]

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Iran
Israel Lobby asks Congress to Approve Attack on Iran & to Exempt Israel from Sequester

Israel Lobby asks Congress to Approve Attack on Iran & to Exempt Israel from Sequester

News from what Ross Perot used to call the guys in sharkskin suits and alligator shoes– the lobbyists who routinely outvote you and me on […]

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Egypt
Egypt on the Brink: The Danger of a Left-Liberal Boycott of Elections

Egypt on the Brink: The Danger of a Left-Liberal Boycott of Elections

My column is out at Truthdig, entitled “Egypt on the Brink”. Excerpt: “the opposition says it is withdrawing from parliamentary elections scheduled for April… The […]

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Environment
Why there will be Masses in the Streets Protesting Climate Change  (Engelhardt)

Why there will be Masses in the Streets Protesting Climate Change (Engelhardt)

Tom Engelhardt writes at Tomdispatch.com: Two Sundays ago, I traveled to the nation’s capital to attend what was billed as “the largest climate rally in […]

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Egypt
Austerity and the threat to Democracy, in the US, Europe and the Middle East

Austerity and the threat to Democracy, in the US, Europe and the Middle East

The “sequester” is actually, of course, the American form of austerity, or cut-backs in government spending during a recession. Austerity, or stingy government in Europe […]

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