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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?

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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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Iran
US Protected Iraq at UN from Iranian Charges of Chemical Weapons Use

US Protected Iraq at UN from Iranian Charges of Chemical Weapons Use

Reprint edn., from my article in Truthdig, where you can find the hyperlinks giving the documentation. I thought these findings by Joyce Battle from the […]

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Environment
Oceans Turning Acid with CO2 at Rate Unseen in 250 million Years, Threatening Further Warming (Queally)

Oceans Turning Acid with CO2 at Rate Unseen in 250 million Years, Threatening Further Warming (Queally)

Jon Queally writes at Commondreams.org In both a new study published Monday and in a newspaper interview over the weekend, German marine biologist Hans Poertner […]

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Syria
Kerry signals US Intervention in Syria, but to What End?

Kerry signals US Intervention in Syria, but to What End?

Secretary of State John Kerry strongly suggested in remarks on Monday that President Obama has concluded that the ruling Baath regime in Syria was responsible […]

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Bahrain
Gulf Arab Press Condemns Alleged ‘Bloody’ Chemical Weapons attack in Syria (OSC)

Gulf Arab Press Condemns Alleged ‘Bloody’ Chemical Weapons attack in Syria (OSC)

The USG Open Source Center translates or paraphrases comment in the Gulf Arab press on the alleged use of chemical weapons by the Syrian Baathist […]

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Energy
Not Markets but the People are making the Green Energy Revolution

Not Markets but the People are making the Green Energy Revolution

The propaganda against the green energy revolution contains all the same predictable elements as the propaganda against anti-slavery movements or later against anti-tobacco findings. We […]

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Domestic Surveillance
Top 13 Surveillance Secrets the Gov’t Doesn’t want You to Know About (Quigley)

Top 13 Surveillance Secrets the Gov’t Doesn’t want You to Know About (Quigley)

Bill Quigley writes at Commondreams.org “We believe most Americans would be stunned to learn the details of how these secret court opinions have interpreted…the Patriot […]

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Syria
Obama’s Limited Options: Bombing Syria unlikely to be Effective

Obama’s Limited Options: Bombing Syria unlikely to be Effective

As pressure on President Obama to bomb Syria over its alleged use of chemical weapons ramps up, it is worth revisiting parts of a post […]

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Syria
Does the World Care? 1 Mn Syrian Children Refugees & Aid Money Running Out

Does the World Care? 1 Mn Syrian Children Refugees & Aid Money Running Out

The Syrian conflict has produced a massive refugee problem, and it reached a new level of horror this week with news that the UN High […]

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Domestic Surveillance
NSA abuses include Stalking ex-Girlfriends

NSA abuses include Stalking ex-Girlfriends

We have HUMINT, or human intelligence gathered from agents. We have SIGINT or signals intelligence. And now we have LOVEINT or NSA analysts occasionally reading […]

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