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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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Trump Shifts to Monarchy Promotion in Middle East

Trump Shifts to Monarchy Promotion in Middle East

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Trump’s Assault on Green Energy could Kill 1.3 million in Climate Disasters

Trump’s Assault on Green Energy could Kill 1.3 million in Climate Disasters

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Egyptian Professor Defends Himself from Coup Gov't's McCarthyite "Grand Espionage" Charges

Egyptian Professor Defends Himself from Coup Gov’t’s McCarthyite “Grand Espionage” Charges

(By Emad Shahin) Statement to my Students, Family and Friends January 23, 2014 It was with severe shock that I received news that I have […]

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Perennial US Rush to War:  Syrian Chem issue was too Foggy to Justify Bombing

Perennial US Rush to War: Syrian Chem issue was too Foggy to Justify Bombing

(By William R. Polk) Nearly five months have passed since the United States nearly went to war with Syria. The issue has cooled down but […]

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Iran Breakthrough a Triumph For Pragmatists and a Defeat For the Warmongers (Cole @ Truthdig)

Iran Breakthrough a Triumph For Pragmatists and a Defeat For the Warmongers (Cole @ Truthdig)

My esssay, “Iran Breakthrough a Triumph For Pragmatists and a Defeat For the Warmongers” is out in Truthdig today. Excerpt: “By 2011, the U.S. Congress […]

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Syria Conference Roiled by Shouting Matches, Insults

Syria Conference Roiled by Shouting Matches, Insults

(By Juan Cole) The Geneva II negotiations at Montreux, Switerland, opened on a sour note on Wednesday. Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem droned on interminably […]

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Can Syria lecture Turkey on terrorism?

Can Syria lecture Turkey on terrorism?

In the opening session of the Geneva II talks the Syrian foreign minister stormed the conference, bitterly accusing ‘foreign powers’ of their responsibility over the […]

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EU envoy: Israel will pay price for settlements

EU envoy: Israel will pay price for settlements

A senior European official on Wednesday painted an alarming picture for Israel if Mideast peace efforts fail, saying the country could face deepening economic isolation […]

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Pro-choice, pro-mixed marriage film rooted in Jewish values

Pro-choice, pro-mixed marriage film rooted in Jewish values

‘Obvious Child’ is a good-natured, foulmouthed romantic comedy — complete with Birthright jokes — centered around an abortion

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Human Rights Abuses grow in the Occupied Palestinian Territories

Human Rights Abuses grow in the Occupied Palestinian Territories

(By Sarah Leah Whitson) (Jerusalem) – Human rights abuses by Israel and by Palestinian security forces in the West Bank grew during 2013, Human Rights […]

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Hard Times for Journalists, but A Golden Age for Canny Readers

Hard Times for Journalists, but A Golden Age for Canny Readers

(By Tom Englehardt) It was 1949.  My mother — known in the gossip columns of that era as “New York’s girl caricaturist” — was freelancing […]

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