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With China’s Help, Saudi Arabia is Deploying Solar Power Faster than any Country in History
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With China’s Help, Saudi Arabia is Deploying Solar Power Faster than any Country in History

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Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Jeffrey Beyer and Stephen Gitonga of the UN Development Program present an overview of Saudi Arabia’s full court press to […]

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How Women Journalists and Activists have been Changing the Middle East

How Women Journalists and Activists have been Changing the Middle East

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Syrian Refugees Blocked, Stranded in Jordan Desert

Syrian Refugees Blocked, Stranded in Jordan Desert

Human Rights Watch | – – (Beirut) – Jordanian authorities have severely restricted informal border crossings in the eastern part of the country since late […]

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Balkans
"Nationalism and terrorism are constructed things to divide us": Macedonian elections and a Balkan "War on Terror"

“Nationalism and terrorism are constructed things to divide us”: Macedonian elections and a Balkan “War on Terror”

By Frances Trix | (Informed Comment) | – Now it appears, thanks to EU mediation, there will be new national elections in Macedonia next April […]

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Barack Obama
Adelson Tabloid slams Obama for Listening to 'Court Jews' in Questioning Israel's Credibility

Adelson Tabloid slams Obama for Listening to ‘Court Jews’ in Questioning Israel’s Credibility

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – President Barack Obama gave an interview on Israeli television on Tuesday in which he said that Prime […]

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Alevis
Turkish Elections:  Will the Country go Full Putin?

Turkish Elections: Will the Country go Full Putin?

Gulay Icoz | (The Conversation)| – Following a month of fierce campaigning, the people of Turkey are preparing to head to the polling stations for […]

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Government surveillance
Wins and Losses for Liberty and Privacy in USA Freedom Act

Wins and Losses for Liberty and Privacy in USA Freedom Act

By Cindy Cohn and Mark Jaycox | (Electronic Frontier Foundation) | – The Senate passed the USA Freedom Act today by 67-32, marking the first […]

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African-Americans
Going for Broke in Ponzi Scheme America

Going for Broke in Ponzi Scheme America

Tom Engelhardt | (Tomdispatch.com) | – [Note to TomDispatch Readers: I’ve long had a weakness for commencement addresses, or at least for what they might be […]

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Apartheid
Lawyer: Palestinian children facing torture in Israeli jails

Lawyer: Palestinian children facing torture in Israeli jails

RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Palestinian children are being beaten and tortured in a “heinous” way by Israeli soldiers during interrogation, a Palestinian Authority lawyer has said. […]

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Bashar al-Assad
US Air Force Absent as Daesh/ ISIL advances on North Aleppo against Sunni Rebels

US Air Force Absent as Daesh/ ISIL advances on North Aleppo against Sunni Rebels

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – Daesh (ISIL, ISIS), the murderous terrorist organization that has taken over the eastern desert of Syria and […]

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Islam-hatred
United Tells Muslim Woman Passenger 'No Soda For Terrorists'

United Tells Muslim Woman Passenger ‘No Soda For Terrorists’

Jose Marcelino Ortiz and Nik Zecevic | (TheLipTV Video) | — “United Airlines discriminated against Muslim passenger Tahera Ahmad following a request she made for […]

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