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Global South is now 1/3 of major EV Markets, Leaving US in the Dust
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Global South is now 1/3 of major EV Markets, Leaving US in the Dust

Juan Cole

The adoption of electric vehicles has spread to the Global South and is no longer only a Chinese, European and American phenomenon.

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3 Narratives of Gaza: Trump’s Riviera, Palestinians’ Two-States, Israel’s Genocide

3 Narratives of Gaza: Trump’s Riviera, Palestinians’ Two-States, Israel’s Genocide

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“You will not Kill our Imagination:” Palestinian Memoirist Saeed Teebi

“You will not Kill our Imagination:” Palestinian Memoirist Saeed Teebi

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Saudis Driven into Poverty by High Oil Prices

Saudis Driven into Poverty by High Oil Prices

Aljazeera International explains how high oil prices are hurting ordinary Saudis, driving up the cost of their food and imports. The petroleum is owned by […]

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Clark: McCain's Threats of Force Disrespect Presidency

Clark: McCain’s Threats of Force Disrespect Presidency

Gen. Wesley Clark on John McCain’s lack of policy-making and foreign policy leadership experience. Clark says McCain has always been for the use of force, […]

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Shenkman: Why the American People Were So Easily Bamboozled by the Bush Administration

Shenkman: Why the American People Were So Easily Bamboozled by the Bush Administration

Rick Shenkman, is the author of the just-published Just How Stupid Are We? Facing the Truth About the American Voter (Basic Books, 2008). He blogs […]

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Iraq
16 Killed, 40 Wounded in Baquba Bombing; Women MPs Protest Speaker; Awakening Councils fear Stab in Back

16 Killed, 40 Wounded in Baquba Bombing; Women MPs Protest Speaker; Awakening Councils fear Stab in Back

Readers who don’t read blogs on weekends should nevertheless look at my Sunday column on ‘The Real State of Iraq’. Al-Hayat reports in Arabic that […]

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Iraq
The Real State of Iraq

The Real State of Iraq

American television loves natural disasters. The Burmese cyclones that may have carried off as many as 200,000 people offered the cameras high drama. The floods […]

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Baradei: Attack on Iran Would Create Fireball in ME;

Baradei: Attack on Iran Would Create Fireball in ME;

The American interpretation of a recent Israeli air force exercise as a warning to Iran that it could be bombed caused oil futures prices to […]

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Iraq
Sadrist Condemns ‘Eternal Slavery’ to US; 1 US Troop Killed, 5 Wounded; Bombings in Mosul

Sadrist Condemns ‘Eternal Slavery’ to US; 1 US Troop Killed, 5 Wounded; Bombings in Mosul

An American soldier was killed and five were wounded by roadside bombs on Friday in Diyala Province northeast of Baghdad. Congress passed a $161 bn. […]

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Ahmadinejad: ‘I was Almost Kidnapped by Bush’

Ahmadinejad: ‘I was Almost Kidnapped by Bush’

The USG Open Source Center translates an article in Tabnak saying that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is alleging that the US had planned to abduct […]

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Iraq
They’re Baaack; It is Politically Inconvenient to Acknowledge . . .

They’re Baaack; It is Politically Inconvenient to Acknowledge . . .

The consortium of American and European oil companies that had dominated Iraqi petroleum in the twentieth century is returning to Iraq to carry out service […]

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