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

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

11/20/2025 By Foreign Policy in Focus

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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Africa
France, ECOWAS intervene in Mali to Halt Advance of Radical Fundamentalists

France, ECOWAS intervene in Mali to Halt Advance of Radical Fundamentalists

The Socialist government of France’s Francois Hollande intervened in Mali on Friday and Saturday to stop the advance of Muslim fundamentalists toward the capital, with […]

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Since 1979, Firearms have Killed 120,000 US Children, Many more than Troops in Vietnam or Iraq & Afghanistan Wars (Graph)

Since 1979, Firearms have Killed 120,000 US Children, Many more than Troops in Vietnam or Iraq & Afghanistan Wars (Graph)

h/t [-pdf] children’s Defense Fund Children’s and teen deaths are 1979-2010; I updated number of troops killed in Iraq & Afghanistan Wars to end of […]

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Afghanistan
Top Ten Surprises of the Obama-Karzai Meet on Afghanistan's Future

Top Ten Surprises of the Obama-Karzai Meet on Afghanistan’s Future

1. President Obama moved the deadline for the end of US combat missions in Afghanistan up from July 31 to “this spring.” At that point, […]

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Drones
Everything You Always Wanted to Know about US Drone Strikes *but Were Afraid to Ask (Currier)

Everything You Always Wanted to Know about US Drone Strikes *but Were Afraid to Ask (Currier)

Cora Currier writes at ProPublica: You might have heard about the “kill list.” You’ve certainly heard about drones. But the details of the U.S. campaign […]

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US politics
Krugman:  Only a Big-Spending Government can Get us out of our Depression (Moyers)

Krugman: Only a Big-Spending Government can Get us out of our Depression (Moyers)

Bill Moyers interviews Paul Krugman, who attacks the GOP deficit hawks for interfering with our emergence from the Great Republican-caused Depression of the early 21st […]

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Afghanistan
Bombings in Pakistan Kill over 100, as Shiites are Targeted

Bombings in Pakistan Kill over 100, as Shiites are Targeted

Pakistan on Thursday descended into the kind of violence that tends to occur in Iraq, with a distinct Sunni-Shiite cast to it. But the larger […]

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How Zero Dark Thirty Taught us to Stop Worrying and Love Torture (Greenberg)

How Zero Dark Thirty Taught us to Stop Worrying and Love Torture (Greenberg)

Karen J. Greenberg writes at Tomdispatch.com On January 11th, 11 years to the day after the Bush administration opened its notorious prison at Guantanamo Bay, […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Cole : "The Syrian Regime Will Likely Fall, but it Could Take Time" (WorldView Show)

Cole : “The Syrian Regime Will Likely Fall, but it Could Take Time” (WorldView Show)

I was interviewed by Denis G. Campbell of the UK Progressive for his internet news and affairs program, the WorldView Show, and the exchange has […]

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8,775 Firearm Murders a Year in US, Equiv. of 290 in UK

8,775 Firearm Murders a Year in US, Equiv. of 290 in UK

Updated. 2013 Reprint edn. Number of Murders, United States, 2010: 12,996 Number of Murders by Firearms, US, 2010: 8,775 Number of Murders, Britain, 2011*: 638 […]

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