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S. Australia Wholesale Electricity Prices fall 30% with Solar, Revealing Trump’s High-Cost Fossil Fuels Scam
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S. Australia Wholesale Electricity Prices fall 30% with Solar, Revealing Trump’s High-Cost Fossil Fuels Scam

Juan Cole

If fossil fuels were competitive, Trump wouldn’t have to try so hard to stall permitting for new wind and solar projects

Who Fears the Truth?  The Deep Fake Campaign to Silence Francesca Albanese on the Gaza Genocide

Who Fears the Truth? The Deep Fake Campaign to Silence Francesca Albanese on the Gaza Genocide

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The Disappearance of Palestine

The Disappearance of Palestine

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Omar Khayyam 16

Before time ever was, You fashioned the divine handiwork of heaven and hell– out of compassion and rage. Your banquet is in heaven, and I […]

Juan Cole

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Hoekstra Blames Everyone but Himself for the Deficits He Voted for

Hoekstra Blames Everyone but Himself for the Deficits He Voted for

It is hard to decide what is the most despicable thing about senatorial Republican hopeful Pete Hoekstra’s Superbowl ad attacking rival Democratic Senator Debbie Stabenow. […]

Juan Cole

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Tomgram: Engelhardt, Kicking Down the World’s Door

Tomgram: Engelhardt, Kicking Down the World’s Door

Make no mistake: we’re entering a new world of military planning…

Tom Engelhardt

Israel/ Palestine
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How an Israeli Strike on Iran could radically weaken Israel

Some colleagues on an email list got me thinking about the worst case scenario of an Israeli air strike on Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities, so […]

Juan Cole

Arab World
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Cole Spanish interviews on Arab Spring in Costa Rica Press

My Spanish-speaking readers will enjoy these links to interviews about the Arab Spring I did last week in San Jose, Costa Rica, with the press […]

Juan Cole

Omar Khayyam
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Omar Khayyam 14

The idol asked the pagan, “Do you know why you started bowing down to me?” –“It was because the One who looks out through your […]

Juan Cole

Syria
Syria Veto and the Revenge of the BRICS

Syria Veto and the Revenge of the BRICS

Russia and China jointly cast a veto Saturday in the United Nations Security Council against an Arab League-backed resolution that would have called for President […]

Juan Cole

Islam
Lyons:  Islam, Women and the West

Lyons: Islam, Women and the West

Jonathan Lyons writes in a guest column for Informed Comment Islam, Women, and the West   This essay is adapted from my latest book, Islam […]

Juan Cole

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NASA’s Dangerous new Blue Marble

NASA’s Dangerous new Blue Marble

NASA’s new composite “Blue Marble” high definition image of the planet earth from outer space: Quick, a test: Was your first reaction, “What a beautiful […]

Juan Cole

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