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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

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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Israel didn’t Place Palestinians in “Refugee,” but in Internment Camps

Israel didn’t Place Palestinians in “Refugee,” but in Internment Camps

Thomas Suarez   ( Middle East Monitor ) – During much of 1948, Palestinians driven from their homes by the violence of that terrible year […]

Middle East Monitor

Authoritarianism
What Happened To Democracy in Turkey?

What Happened To Democracy in Turkey?

Umut Özkırımlı      ( Waging Nonviolence ) – Despite initial skepticism regarding the results of the November 2002 general elections — which saw the […]

Waging Nonviolence

Climate Crisis
Science shows the severe Climate Consequences of new Oil, Gas and Coal Production

Science shows the severe Climate Consequences of new Oil, Gas and Coal Production

By Ed Hawkins, University of Reading | – The world has just suffered through its warmest month ever recorded. Heatwaves have swept across southern Europe, […]

The Conversation

Bill of Rights
Trump's Indictment for Jan. 6:  Revisiting "Psychopathocracy"

Trump’s Indictment for Jan. 6: Revisiting “Psychopathocracy”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A Grand Jury empaneled by Special Prosecutor Jack Smith has issued an indictment (full text here) against Donald John Trump […]

Juan Cole

censorship
The State of Human Rights in Saudi Arabia: Yemen, Freedom of Speech, Women, Executions

The State of Human Rights in Saudi Arabia: Yemen, Freedom of Speech, Women, Executions

Submission to the Universal Periodic Review of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 45th Session of the UN Universal Periodic Review   Introduction ( Human Rights […]

Human Rights Watch

Climate Change
The Other Threat of Massive Climate Change:  Nuclear War

The Other Threat of Massive Climate Change: Nuclear War

By Mark Maslin, UCL | – Christopher Nolan’s biopic of J. Robert Oppenheimer has revived morbid curiosity in the destructive power of nuclear weapons. There […]

The Conversation

Afghanistan
The Forever War's Forever Legacy: Shutting down Gitmo is Hardly the Last Step

The Forever War’s Forever Legacy: Shutting down Gitmo is Hardly the Last Step

( Tomdispatch.com ) – There can be little question that the grim prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, which still shows no sign of closing anytime […]

Karen J. Greenberg

China
In  2024, China will hit Peak Gasoline, with its Demand on a Downward Spiral ever After

In 2024, China will hit Peak Gasoline, with its Demand on a Downward Spiral ever After

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Yale Environment 360 points to recent energy reports as suggesting that China will hit peak gasoline next year. That is, […]

Juan Cole

Haredim
Israel's Protests are about the Rise of the Israeli Ayatollahs, not Democracy

Israel’s Protests are about the Rise of the Israeli Ayatollahs, not Democracy

Dr Ramzy Baroud RamzyBaroud   ( Middle East Monitor ) – At first glance, the statement may seem baffling. If Israel is a ‘Jewish State’ […]

Ramzy Baroud

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