Electric Takeover: Türkiye Leaves the US in the Dust
By Juan Cole for Informed Comment Turkiye has become an ordinary European country when it comes to electric car and hybrid sales. In fact, it is the fourth largest market…
Israel Still Throttling Medical Supplies to Gaza: “The Fungus is Eating Her Face”
By Juan Cole for Informed Comment The Israeli authorities are still not permitting journalists into Gaza, even months after a supposed ceasefire. The big Western news corporations are taking this…
Saudis to invest Billions in Renewable Power in Turkiye, incl. 2 Gigs of New Solar
By Juan Cole for Informed Comment The Saudi-owned daily Al-Sharq al-Awsat reports that during a visit of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Riyadh, a multi-billion dollar investment by Saudi…
Turning Point: Wind and Solar Outstrip Fossil Fuels in Europe for First Time
Wind, solar and hydro accounted for 47.1% of electricity generation, nearly half, in the Eurozone.
Why Trump’s Denunciations of the Iranian Killings Ring Fatally Hollow
Intro by Tom Engelhardt for Tom Dispatch At almost 82, I still walk six miles a day without fail. And sometimes now, when I’m walking in my city, New York,…
All the 15 Hottest Spots on Earth on Thursday were in Australia; Will it become Uninhabitable?
By Juan Cole for Informed Comment It is admittedly summer in Australia, but this is ridiculous. SBS News reports, “Australia . . . claimed all of the top 15 hottest…
How Minnesotans became Palestinians: Top 5 Ways they are Occupied
By Juan Cole for Informed Comment The people of Palestine are occupied by the Israelis. In my experience most Americans do not even know this basic fact. Ignorance of it…
Old Bonespurs Spits on Graves of European NATO Soldiers who gave Lives for US in Afghanistan
By Juan Cole for Informed Comment In an interview with Fox “News” in Davos, Switzerland, President Donald J. Trump a.k.a. “Old Bonespurs” and “Five-time-Deferment,” smeared the European NATO soldiers who…
Genocide in Gaza, Apartheid in the Palestinian West Bank: UN Report
“The report warns that Israel is violating international law requiring States to prohibit and eradicate racial segregation and apartheid.”
Top 5 Mistakes Bush made in Iraq that Trump is making in Venezuela
By Juan Cole for Informed Comment 1. Violation of the UN Charter and the International laws of war The Trump administration attacked Venezuela and abducted of dictator Nicolas Maduro without…
The Rise of the Sunni Crescent in 2025: The US and the Middle East
By Juan Cole for Informed Comment Back in 2004, in an interview with one of our foremost journalists of the Middle East, Robin Wright, Jordan’s King Abdullah II complained as…
Trump’s Strike on Nigeria: Joint with Muslim President, Unconstitutional, Useless Posturing for Evangelicals
By Juan Cole for Informed Comment The Trump administration’s strike on Sokoto State in the far northwest of Nigeria had no legal basis in U.S. law. The United States is…
Was Colonialism a Crime? Algerian Parliament Criminalizes 130 Years of French Rule
By Juan Cole for Informed Comment The Algerian newspaper al-Masa’ reports that on December 24, the Algerian parliament passed a law recognizing French colonialism in that country, 1830-1962, as having…
For Christmas: Jesus’ Life-Giving Breath and Persian Love Poetry
By Juan Cole for Informed Comment In Islam, God is thought of as sending a succession of human Messengers, each with his own dispensation. I say “his” because most Muslim…
Global South Is Now 1/3 of Major EV Markets, Leaving US in the Dust
When we say that people in the Global South are buying EVs hand over fist, alas, we aren’t saying that they are buying Chevy Bolts or Nissan Leafs or Teslas.