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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

Juan Cole

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

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From Sykes-Picot to Silicon Valley: Why Middle East Fault Lines now run through American Tech

From Sykes-Picot to Silicon Valley: Why Middle East Fault Lines now run through American Tech

12/19/2025 By Jasim Al-Azzawi

“We cannot Negotiate with the Melting Point of Ice:” World’s Ice Sheets shed 640 bn. Tons in 12 Months

“We cannot Negotiate with the Melting Point of Ice:” World’s Ice Sheets shed 640 bn. Tons in 12 Months

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More on Kabul Bombing; String of Bombs Hits Karachi

More on Kabul Bombing; String of Bombs Hits Karachi

Barnett Rubin has extensive comments on the attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul. The toll has risen to 41 dead, 147 wounded. Aljazeera International […]

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Bombings in Islamabad, Kabul

Bombings in Islamabad, Kabul

Two Iraq-style suicide bombings hit South Asia in the past 24 hours. On Sunday, a suicide bomber hit a police checkpoint in Islamabad, the capital […]

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Zogby: Obama Leads in Electoral College 273-158; Barr Badly Hurting McCain

Zogby: Obama Leads in Electoral College 273-158; Barr Badly Hurting McCain

Zogby reports: July 06, 2008 Zogby Poll: Building Mo-bama! Democrat Leads McCain in Electoral College Tally, 273-158 The Democrat also leads 44% to 38% in […]

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Sunday Blog Patrol in Brief

Sunday Blog Patrol in Brief

Shorter Swopa: The Iraqi government ban on using photographs of non-candidates (including revered ayatollahs) in campaign literature is not a move to separate religion and […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Maliki Warns US on Iran; Will not allow Iraqi air space or land in any US Attack

Maliki Warns US on Iran; Will not allow Iraqi air space or land in any US Attack

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told Bush Friday by video conference that the US could not use Iraqi territory or airspace to attack neighboring Iran. […]

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On Killing Afghan Civilians and Nuking Iran: What Reddit says People are Reading

On Killing Afghan Civilians and Nuking Iran: What Reddit says People are Reading

From Reddit.com on Saturday: Afghan governor says US air strikes killed 22 civilians. If only we could nuke Iran. Ron Paul says he has heard […]

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Osman, Qubanji: Attack on Iran a Catastrophe for Iraq, Gulf

Osman, Qubanji: Attack on Iran a Catastrophe for Iraq, Gulf

Patrick Cockburn reports from Baghdad that Mahmud Osman, a Kurdish MP, maintains that an attack on Iran by Israel or the US would plunge Iraq […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Your Fourth of July and My Fourth of July

Your Fourth of July and My Fourth of July

Your Fourth of July is blood for oil. My Fourth of July is the pure sunbeam of peace. Yours is the imperial presidency and “so […]

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Quotations on Patriotism

Quotations on Patriotism

“I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present […]

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