31.7% of European Car Sales are EVs, and only ~21.7% are Purely Gasoline-fueled
Juan Cole Informed Comment Gasoline car sales in Europe have plummeted to only about a fifth of new car registrations in Europe in the first 8 months of 2026, down…
Vietnamese Press: US Military Withdrawal From Iraq A Victory For Tehran
Juan Cole Informed Comment I was a little surprised to see that the Vietnamese internet news agency Vietnam.vn has an Arabic service. It carried an article yesterday from the newspaper…
Amid Hormuz Energy Crisis, Renewables Generate 61% Of Turkish Electricity
Juan Cole Informed Comment In the first seven months of 2026, Turkiye generated 61% of its electricity from renewable sources. Since hydro and solar generation have seasonal peaks, that rate…
Paper Tiger: Trump’s Lost Iran War is Making Everything More Expensive (Ian Masters Interviews Juan Cole)
Ian Masters Interviews Juan Cole on the Iran War and Energy Crisis for Background Briefing Here are the audio and a written transcript: Ian Masters Interviews Juan Cole on the…
Pentagon Iran War Report Admits To Worst Drubbing Since Vietnam
Juan Cole Informed Comment The Department of Defense report on the Israeli-US war on Iran admits that it has been costly, has seen extensive destruction of US facilities in the…
Trump Terrified Of Impact On Midterms Of $6 / Gal. Diesel As His War Spirals Out Of Control
Juan Cole Informed Comment President Trump on Sunday warned Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to stop striking at Russian diesel refineries. While these Ukrainian strikes have had an impact on global…
Have the US, Israel and Saudis lost the Battle of the Narrows?
Juan Cole Informed Comment The 19th century American naval theorist Alfred Thayer Mahan stressed that a great maritime empire needn’t control the seas but rather must establish dominance over what…
Gaza Scholasticide and the American Historical Association
Juan Cole Informed Comment Academics For Peace on Instagram posted my video for Historians for Peace and Democracy, protesting the refusal of the Council of the American Historical Association to…
UN Wants To Right-Size Maps; Would It Have Saved Trump From Iran Catastrophe?
Juan Cole Informed Coment On Friday, the UN General Assembly, in a non-binding resolution, voted almost unanimously for the adoption of maps that show the true size of Africa rather…
In War Crime, Trump Sinks Civilian Iranian Tanker, Disables 2 Others
Juan Cole Informed Comment The Trump administration continues to fire on civilian Iranian targets in a campaign that has intensified in the first week of September, after a relatively quiet…
UNEP: World will Exceed 1.5º C., Bringing Catastrophes and Unknowable Risks
Juan Cole Informed Comment The UN Environmental Programme has issued a new report that admits that the world will almost certainly exceed the Paris Treaty goal of limiting global heating…
Poll: Americans Oppose Iran War, Blame it for Inflation, and Diss Trump’s Performance
Juan Cole Informed Comment A new University of Massachusetts-Amherst opinion poll, conducted August 21 – 26, finds profound American disillusionment with President Trump, with his Iran War, and with its…