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Türkiye to host Climate Meet COP31: Can it Rise to Green Energy Leadership Challenge?
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Türkiye to host Climate Meet COP31: Can it Rise to Green Energy Leadership Challenge?

Juan Cole

Türkiye has achievements in low-carbon renewable energy. It is the site of the largest solar power installation in a European country

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Protesting Canada’s Detention of Former UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falk over Palestine Rights Advocacy

Protesting Canada’s Detention of Former UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falk over Palestine Rights Advocacy

11/21/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

Trump using Jews to Ban Free Speech: The Ultimate in Antisemitism

Trump using Jews to Ban Free Speech: The Ultimate in Antisemitism

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Rand Paul to Rick Perry: Why Send US Troops to an Iraq that Won't Defend Self?

Rand Paul to Rick Perry: Why Send US Troops to an Iraq that Won’t Defend Self?

By Juan Cole Texas Gov. Rick Perry, apparently considering another run for president (assuming he can remember to do it), attacked Rand Paul as an […]

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Brad Pitt Foundation to Build Solar Homes for Native Americans

Brad Pitt Foundation to Build Solar Homes for Native Americans

Native News Online reports that Brad Pitt’s Make it Right foundation will build solar-powered homes for Native Americans in Montana. —– Related video added by […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Israel and Palestine: An Animated Introduction

Israel and Palestine: An Animated Introduction

“Easy to understand, historically accurate Jewish Voice for Peace mini- primer about why Israelis and Palestinians are fighting, why the US-backed peace process has been […]

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Israel
Netanyahu's Bad Faith: From Gag orders to War as Bread and Circuses

Netanyahu’s Bad Faith: From Gag orders to War as Bread and Circuses

By Carlyn Meyer In a stunning revelation published by the Jewish daily news magazine, Forward, JJ Goldberg uncovers an almost pathological new low for PM […]

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Bill of Rights
Helpless Giant:  How Imperial US Elites Tied America Down All by Themselves

Helpless Giant: How Imperial US Elites Tied America Down All by Themselves

By Tom Engelhardt via Tomdispatch For America’s national security state, this is the age of impunity.  Nothing it does — torture, kidnapping, assassination, illegal surveillance, […]

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The Court Trial of Bibi Netanyahu

The Court Trial of Bibi Netanyahu

By Juan Cole Dark Satire: Irony alert Prosecutor: “Justices of the International Criminal Court, I shall demonstrate to you that this man (points at detained […]

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Christians
Is Pope Francis the Green Pope?

Is Pope Francis the Green Pope?

By Robyn Purchia Pope Francis is putting a smile on environmentalists’ faces again. In an address at the University of Molise on Saturday, an agricultural […]

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US politics
Draft notices sent out 100 Years Late

Draft notices sent out 100 Years Late

By Cory Doctorow A US Selective Service database merge used two-digit years, and didn’t sanity-check its threatening notices to 19th century men who’d apparently failed […]

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History
Palestine 1896

Palestine 1896

First film footage taken of Ottoman Palestine (Lumiere Bros.), in 1896. Palestine 1896 h/t William Dalrymple Kemal Karpat wrote that according to the Ottoman Census […]

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