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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

11/21/2025 By Tomdispatch

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Trump Shifts to Monarchy Promotion in Middle East

Trump Shifts to Monarchy Promotion in Middle East

Forget about democracy promotion. The Trump administration is advocating for monarchy

Foreign Policy in Focus

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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

Most of the people expected to suffer these temperature-related deaths live in poor countries in Africa and South Asia

ProPublica

Donald Trump
Trump Pledges F-35s to Saudi Arabia in return for  an unlikely $1 trillion in Investment, Angering Israel Lobbies

Trump Pledges F-35s to Saudi Arabia in return for an unlikely $1 trillion in Investment, Angering Israel Lobbies

Like most things in Trumpworld these investment figures are pure fantasies, and it is disturbing that he is apparently making geopolitical policy

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
The UN’s Acquiescence in Trump’s Colonial Plan for Gaza Betrays the Palestinians yet Again

The UN’s Acquiescence in Trump’s Colonial Plan for Gaza Betrays the Palestinians yet Again

Gaza remains in ruins, Palestinians remain under the boot of an unrestrained occupying power, and Washington still acts as the global custodian

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
Trump Luxuriates in Golden Ballroom Plans as Americans Scrimp By

Trump Luxuriates in Golden Ballroom Plans as Americans Scrimp By

Think of “President” Trump, in short, as a twofer when it comes to potential planetary destruction.

Tom Engelhardt

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The Genesis of Israeli Ultra-Apartheid

The Genesis of Israeli Ultra-Apartheid

Such a shift would be consistent with the Israeli far-right’s redemptionist dreams of Jewish supremacy and Greater Israel

Dan Steinbock

Iran
The Dawn that Never Broke: The Unresolved Israel-Iran War

The Dawn that Never Broke: The Unresolved Israel-Iran War

The twelve-day war between Iran and Israel did not culminate in an Israeli triumph or an Iranian eclipse.

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
What Policies Can Help Solve Iran’s Climate-Driven Water Shortage?

What Policies Can Help Solve Iran’s Climate-Driven Water Shortage?

In Tehran, and in Mashhad some reservoirs are at less than 5% and 3% capacity, respectively

The Conversation

Academic Freedom
Assaults on US Academic Freedom:  Acquiescence and Resistance

Assaults on US Academic Freedom: Acquiescence and Resistance

Academic freedom siege in the US is under siege as never in our nation’s history

H. Scott Prosterman

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