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

02/08/2026 By The Conversation

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The Incredible Shrinking Cost of Solar Energy Drives Mega-Projects around the World

The Incredible Shrinking Cost of Solar Energy Drives Mega-Projects around the World

Rob Wile uses a graph to point out the obvious, the dramatic fall in the cost of solar power generation. In many countries– Italy, Spain, […]

Juan Cole

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Fracking ourselves to Death: Hydrocarbons are bad for Children and other Living Things (Cantarow)

Fracking ourselves to Death: Hydrocarbons are bad for Children and other Living Things (Cantarow)

Ellen Cantarow writes at Tomdispatch.com: More than 70 years ago, a chemical attack was launched against Washington State and Nevada. It poisoned people, animals, everything […]

Juan Cole

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Why Obama doesn’t want to intervene in Syria

Why Obama doesn’t want to intervene in Syria

After President Obama’s remarks about chemical weapons use in Syria, many newspaper articles appeared suggesting that he was rethinking his opposition to US involvement there. […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Pundits Slam Kerry as Naive, Messianic for Arab League Concession

Israeli Pundits Slam Kerry as Naive, Messianic for Arab League Concession

Secretary of State John Kerry has wrung a concession from the Arab League, which now says that some minor changes in the 1967 border between […]

Juan Cole

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After unsafe Factory kills 400 in Bangladesh, on May Day workers Demand Rights (Democracy Now!)

After unsafe Factory kills 400 in Bangladesh, on May Day workers Demand Rights (Democracy Now!)

As deaths in the Bangladesh textile factory fire mount to over 400, on May Day workers demand they be afforded as many legal protections as […]

Juan Cole

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UNICEF: Facebook likes don't save lives, Contributions do

UNICEF: Facebook likes don’t save lives, Contributions do

UNICEF reminds us that Facebook ‘likes’ don’t save children’s lives– cash contributions do. Plus, it helps if the US Congress steps up. The Israel lobbies […]

Juan Cole

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Saudi Arabian hunter stalks desert Gazelle with pet Cheetah

Saudi Arabian hunter stalks desert Gazelle with pet Cheetah

Saudi Arabian man keeps cheetah as pet to help with hunting gazelle in the desert.

Juan Cole

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Top Ten Problems in South Carolina Lindsey Graham should worry more about than Benghazi

Top Ten Problems in South Carolina Lindsey Graham should worry more about than Benghazi

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) slammed President Obama for a deterioration in US security because, he said, of four Americans having been killed in Benghazi last […]

Juan Cole

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Cargo Plane Crash at Bagram (Video)

Cargo Plane Crash at Bagram (Video)

Warning: some may find this footage disturbing. A cargo plane crashed Monday at Bagram air base in Afghanistan, killing all 7 passengers aboard (Americans). . […]

Juan Cole

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