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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

11/20/2025 By ProPublica

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Top 5 Signs Cliven Bundy is Wrong about African-Americans

Top 5 Signs Cliven Bundy is Wrong about African-Americans

Cliven Bundy told the NYT, “They abort their young children, they put their young men in jail, because they never learned how to pick cotton. […]

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media
Jon Stewart v. Hannity on Bundy & Law Enforcement: “Proportionality”

Jon Stewart v. Hannity on Bundy & Law Enforcement: “Proportionality”

Jon Stewart examines whether Sean Hannity really is concerned, as he says, only with the disproportionate use of force by law enforcement, in the Cliven […]

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Dissent
The Cost of Whistleblowing: Being consigned to the Minimum-Wage Underclass

The Cost of Whistleblowing: Being consigned to the Minimum-Wage Underclass

(By Peter van Buren via Tomdispatch) There are many sides to whistleblowing. The one that most people don’t know about is the very personal cost, […]

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racism
GOP Divided on Whether to Support Cliven Bundy's "Negro" Remarks

GOP Divided on Whether to Support Cliven Bundy’s “Negro” Remarks

Cliven Bundy wonders if blacks were ‘better off as slaves’: Republican supporters start fleeing (via The Moderate Voice) More responsible Republicans are now starting to […]

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Islam
The Coming Holy War over al-Aqsa Mosque/ Temple Mount in Jerusalem

The Coming Holy War over al-Aqsa Mosque/ Temple Mount in Jerusalem

Events of the past week in Jerusalem are extremely troubling, and indeed for the past four months. The al-Aqsa Mosque is the third holiest site […]

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Asia
Is Obama right that America's Future is in Asia, not the Middle East?

Is Obama right that America’s Future is in Asia, not the Middle East?

(by Juan Cole) Barack Obama, brought up in Hawaii and having lived as a child in Indonesia, is the first Pacific president, and his current […]

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Internet
FCC Plots Murder of Blogs on Behalf of Billionaire Media Lords

FCC Plots Murder of Blogs on Behalf of Billionaire Media Lords

Breaking: FCC Will Announce the Death of Net Neutrality Tomorrow (via Americans Against The Tea Party) If you thought corporations played a big role in […]

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Crime
GOP:  Giving CDC money to study Gun Violence would be "Funding Propaganda"

GOP: Giving CDC money to study Gun Violence would be “Funding Propaganda”

(By Lois Beckett via ProPublica). After the Sandy Hook school shooting, Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA) was one of a few congressional Republicans who expressed a […]

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Afghanistan
Can Afghanistan's Vibrant Democratic Press Survive?

Can Afghanistan’s Vibrant Democratic Press Survive?

(By Olof Blomqvist) The presidential election has shown Afghanistan’s increasingly mature media scene at its best – hopefully not for the last time. Afghanistan’s vibrant […]

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