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Saudis to invest Billions in Renewable Power in Turkiye, incl. 2 Gigs of New Solar
Climate Crisis

Saudis to invest Billions in Renewable Power in Turkiye, incl. 2 Gigs of New Solar

Juan Cole

Cheap solar and wind can replace imports of expensive and possibly unreliable fossil gas as well as imports of expensive and polluting black coal

What is Israel planning for Palestinians in the West Bank?

What is Israel planning for Palestinians in the West Bank?

02/08/2026 By Middle East Monitor

Why Futuristic “Smart Cities” Like Saudi Arabia’s Neom are Destined to Fail

Why Futuristic “Smart Cities” Like Saudi Arabia’s Neom are Destined to Fail

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Can we close Guantanamo Now?  Abu Hamza Convicted by New York Jury

Can we close Guantanamo Now? Abu Hamza Convicted by New York Jury

British preacher Abu Hamza guilty on US terror charges (via AFP) A New York jury convicted British hate preacher Abu Hamza on 11 kidnapping and […]

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Climate Change
Neil DeGrasse Tyson and Miles O’Brien slam CNN as the ‘Wal-Mart of journalism’

Neil DeGrasse Tyson and Miles O’Brien slam CNN as the ‘Wal-Mart of journalism’

On the latest episode of his StarTalk Radio Show, Neil DeGrasse Tyson spoke to former CNN science journalist Miles O’Brien about the failures of modern news reporting — particularly at CNN. As the interview began, O’Brien joked that CNN fired…

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Christianity
Will Pope Francis's Visit to the West Bank be a Challenge to Occupation?

Will Pope Francis’s Visit to the West Bank be a Challenge to Occupation?

"This visit will help us in supporting our struggle to end the longest occupation in history." (By Lauren McCauley) On an upcoming trip to the […]

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Democracy
Sunnis Big Losers in Iraq Elections, PM al-Maliki has Largest Party

Sunnis Big Losers in Iraq Elections, PM al-Maliki has Largest Party

(By Juan Cole) The results of the Iraqi parliamentary elections are in, and everybody lost. There will be another hung parliament that gets almost nothing […]

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Democracy
After Occupy:  Is Economic Democracy Possible?

After Occupy: Is Economic Democracy Possible?

(A conversation on economic democracy with Tom Malleson via OUP) How do we address the problem of inequality in capitalist societies? Tom Malleson, the author […]

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Bush
Dick Cheney wants Hillary Clinton ‘held accountable’ for Benghazi terror attacks

Dick Cheney wants Hillary Clinton ‘held accountable’ for Benghazi terror attacks

Dick Cheney, the former vice president who was in office during the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 and later pushed the country into war with Iraq based on faulty intelligence, said on Sunday that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would…

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Apartheid
Occupartheid is Isolating and Degrading Israel

Occupartheid is Isolating and Degrading Israel

​(Open Letter from Daniel Bar-Tal, Tel Aviv) “Love your neighbor as yourself” This is the core requirement for overcoming blindness caused by hate and fear […]

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Central Asia
The Eurasian Pivot: Is it China's and Russia's Century?

The Eurasian Pivot: Is it China’s and Russia’s Century?

(By Pepe Escobar via Tomdispatch) HONG KONG — A specter is haunting Washington, an unnerving vision of a Sino-Russian alliance wedded to an expansive symbiosis […]

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Arab Spring
Second Libyan Upheaval, this Time Against Political Islam, Extremist Militias

Second Libyan Upheaval, this Time Against Political Islam, Extremist Militias

(By Juan Cole) In Benghazi on Monday morning, fighting resumed between the “Libyan National Army” forces of Col. Khalifa Hifter and fundamentalist extremists. The latter […]

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