Juan runs the popular geopolitics blog Informed Comment where he provides an independent and informed perspective on Middle Eastern and American politics.
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
LIMA, (IPS) – Africa is experiencing a revolution towards cleaner energy through renewables but the story has hardly been told to the world, says Achim…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…