Juan Cole

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• 6 Signs The Big Global Switch To Solar Has Already Begun

  Published 03 August 2016 | viewed 29,410 times

  China has installed 20 gigawatts of new solar power just in the first half of this year. This achievement beats analysts’ expectations by a wide…

• The $2 Trillion Gamble That Saudi Arabia Cannot Win

  Published 26 April 2016 | viewed 23,783 times

  Prince Muhammad Bin Salman, 30, the deputy crown prince of Saudi Arabia laid out his vision for Saudi Arabia on Monday in a plan called…

• With Oil at $36/barrel, Have Democrats just Won the Presidency?

  Published 15 December 2015 | viewed 6,197 times

  The price of petroleum fell Monday to levels not seen since the crash of 2008, at one point hitting $35 a barrel in New York.…

• Putin Has What Obama Sorely Lacks: A Coherent Strategy For Syria

  Published 12 October 2015 | viewed 4,385 times

    In his “60 Minutes” interview on Sunday, President Obama made some remarks on Syria, but do they add up to a policy?Obama said:1. He…

• Warren Buffett Betting Big On Wind Energy In Nebraska

  Published 04 May 2015 | viewed 21,118 times

  Wind power is on a roll in the US despite a fickle Congress and the machinations of Big Coal and Big Gas to keep all…

• Iran’s Khamenei Throws Support To A Practical Nuclear Deal With West

  Published 09 February 2015 | viewed 5,073 times

  Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s clerical leader, gave a speech on Sunday in which he said he supports an agreement with the West on Iran’s nuclear…

• Amazing Green Cars at the 2015 Detroit Auto Show

  Published 20 January 2015 | viewed 6,357 times

  I caught the Detroit Auto Show on Saturday afternoon. As always, it was great to see the concept cars of the future. But if you…

• Renewables Could Revolutionize African Energy

  Published 15 December 2014 | viewed 8,661 times

  LIMA, (IPS) – Africa is experiencing a revolution towards cleaner energy through renewables but the story has hardly been told to the world, says Achim…

• Is Saudi Arabia Waging Economic Warfare?

  Published 18 November 2014 | viewed 11,792 times

  The G20 is a conference of the world’s top 20 economies as measured by Gross Domestic Product. Some observers have slammed it as an unelected…

• Will Coal Be Cut Entirely From German Energy Mix?

  Published 10 November 2014 | viewed 9,999 times

  Germany is looking into cutting its use of coal power, at the same time that it is cutting out nuclear. If it does, there could…

• 2014 Detroit Auto Show: Proof that EVs can be Fun

  Published 28 January 2014 | viewed 7,678 times

  I dropped by the Detroit Auto Show this weekend (its last this year) at Cobo Center as it was wrapping up. Regular readers know that…

• Iran Claims to be Ready to do a Deal with the US

  Published 24 September 2013 | viewed 5,337 times

  The United States, France, Germany, the UK, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE form a bloc that are convinced that Iran’s nuclear enrichment program is…

• India and China Ignore US Sanctions Against Iran

  Published 14 August 2013 | viewed 26,679 times

  The US House of Representatives approved a bill at the beginning of this month aimed at completely closing off Iranian petroleum exports. Not since President…

• Ten Reasons Why Egypt is Vital to the US Economy and Security

  Published 18 July 2013 | viewed 23,668 times

  A Pew poll shows that far fewer Americans are following events in Egypt closely now than in January-February 2011. Actually, about the same percentage are…

• Falling Solar Costs Drive Increase in Number of Large Scale Solar Installations

  Published 06 May 2013 | viewed 13,509 times

  Rob Wile uses a graph to point out the obvious, the dramatic fall in the cost of solar power generation. In many countries– Italy, Spain,…

• The US Looks on as Pakistan and Iran Inaugurate Gas Pipeline

  Published 13 March 2013 | viewed 10,759 times

  Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Pakistani president Asaf Ali Zardari on Monday inaugurated a gas pipeline that will supply Pakistani cities with Iranian natural gas.…

• Why is the Washington Post Surprised at High Gas Prices?

  Published 20 February 2013 | viewed 13,031 times

  The Washington Post is surprised by the ‘mysterious’ high cost of gasoline in the US but does not mention in this article that the US…

• Top Ten Costs of the BP Oil Spill that won't be Covered by the $4.5 Billion Fine

  Published 16 November 2012 | viewed 20,011 times

  BP recently agreed to pay a fine of some $4.5 billion dollars from the US Department of Justice for malfeasance in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon…

• Could Electric Cars Make the Middle East Geopolitically Irrelevant?

  Published 13 November 2012 | viewed 8,394 times

  Petroleum makes the world go round, with 70% of it used to power automobiles. About a fifth of the world’s 90 million barrels a day…

• Iran's People Suffer as Oil Income Protects the Government from Hyperinflation

  Published 06 October 2012 | viewed 14,515 times

  The steep decline of the Iranian rial against the dollar has produced a lot of extravagant claims about the collapse of the Iranian economy. While…