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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

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US officials, having Stabbed Palestinians in the Back for Decades, now "Offended" that President Abbas doesn't Trust them and Wants Russia Involved

US officials, having Stabbed Palestinians in the Back for Decades, now “Offended” that President Abbas doesn’t Trust them and Wants Russia Involved

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Barak Ravid at Axios reports that Biden administration officials are furious about remarks by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas saying he […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
The world must hear the Voice of Iranian Women

The world must hear the Voice of Iranian Women

By Azin Mohajerin and Sussan Tahmasebi | – ( Globalvoices.org ) – The name Mahsa (Jina) Amini has become a rallying cry for millions of […]

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The New Cold War Heats Up Asia:  China and the U.S. Face an Unprecedented Crisis

The New Cold War Heats Up Asia: China and the U.S. Face an Unprecedented Crisis

( Tomdispatch.com ) – If the world is indeed entering a new Cold War, it bears little resemblance to the final years of that global […]

Alfred W. McCoy

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Lonely MAGA Bros:  Peter Thiel's New Conservative Dating App Ghosted by, like, Women

Lonely MAGA Bros: Peter Thiel’s New Conservative Dating App Ghosted by, like, Women

By Lisa Portolan, Western Sydney University | – The Right Stuff is a new conservative dating app, recently launched in the US. Not yet available […]

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Authoritarianism
Prison Revolt, Fire, Gunshots at Notorious Evin Facility in Iran, which houses Political Prisoners, as Iran Protests enter 5th Week

Prison Revolt, Fire, Gunshots at Notorious Evin Facility in Iran, which houses Political Prisoners, as Iran Protests enter 5th Week

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Dubai-based Al-Arabiya assembles Tweets from Iran about the prisoner uprising at Iran’s maximum-security prison, Evin, which led to the outbreak […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
What the historic women’s Uprising in Iran teaches us about resisting Authoritarianism

What the historic women’s Uprising in Iran teaches us about resisting Authoritarianism

By Nilofar Sakhi | – The death of Mahsa Amini, who was detained and beaten by Iranian morality police due to a violation of “Iran’s […]

Waging Nonviolence

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D.C. Attorney General Opens Investigation Into Republican Governors’ Shipping of Immigrants to the Capital

D.C. Attorney General Opens Investigation Into Republican Governors’ Shipping of Immigrants to the Capital

By Marilyn W. Thompson and Perla Trevizo | – ( ProPublica ) – District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine has opened an investigation into […]

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Why Biden’s Marijuana Pardons Are a Seismic Shift

Why Biden’s Marijuana Pardons Are a Seismic Shift

By Paul Armentano | – ( Otherwords.org) – The immediate impacts are modest, but the order marks a top-level recognition that 100 years of cannabis […]

OtherWords

Authoritarianism
Iran: Massive Baluch Protest in Zahedan; in NW, Security Forces attack School, Injuring and Disappearing Girls

Iran: Massive Baluch Protest in Zahedan; in NW, Security Forces attack School, Injuring and Disappearing Girls

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Because of internet blackouts, news of Iran’s ongoing protests only leaks out in dribbles and drabs, sometimes a couple of […]

Juan Cole

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