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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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Top Five Myths about the Middle East Protests

Top Five Myths about the Middle East Protests

5. Dear right wing blogosphere and also Bill Maher: You can’t generalize about women’s position in Muslim countries based on a reprehensible mob attack on […]

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Yemen
Days of Rage in Libya, Yemen and Bahrain

Days of Rage in Libya, Yemen and Bahrain

ITN has video on Friday’s dramatic protests in Libya, Yemen and Bahrain (for the latter scroll down). Some 80 protesters have been killed in the […]

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50,000 Protest in Bahrain Before Another Bloody Crackdown

50,000 Protest in Bahrain Before Another Bloody Crackdown

Breaking News: Bahrain security forces appear to have run out of ammunition at the downtown Pearl Roundabout, as thousands of Shiite protesters flooded in Saturday […]

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Iraq
Iraq Roiled by Protests, 2 Killed in Sulaimaniya

Iraq Roiled by Protests, 2 Killed in Sulaimaniya

What I can’t understand is, if the American Right Wing were correct that George W. Bush was ‘right’ in trying to kick start democracy in […]

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Bahrain Shiites Withdraw from Parliament, Call for King's Overthrow

Bahrain Shiites Withdraw from Parliament, Call for King’s Overthrow

Members of parliament from the Shiite Wifaq Party, which had 18 of 40 seats in the lower house of the Bahrain legislature, have resigned en […]

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Egypt
The Great Arab Revolt:  Cole in the Nation

The Great Arab Revolt: Cole in the Nation

My essay is out in The Nation, entitled “The Great Arab Revolt”. ‘These governments took steps in recent decades toward neoliberal policies of privatization and […]

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Egypt
Egypt Situation Still Explosive

Egypt Situation Still Explosive

The military government of Gen. Mohammad Hussein Tantawi, the minister of defense, has taken important steps toward mollifying the Jan. 25 protest movement, but it […]

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Bahrain Army Cracks down Hard on Protesters, kills 4, wounds 95

Bahrain Army Cracks down Hard on Protesters, kills 4, wounds 95

Bahrain’s king, Hamad Al Khalifa, ordered troops and tanks into Pearl Square in downtown Manama in the early hours of Thursday morning. They fired tear […]

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Saudi Arabia
Bahrain: US Naval Base or Iranian Asset?

Bahrain: US Naval Base or Iranian Asset?

What is at stake for Americans in the Bahrain unrest? 1. Bahrain is a major center for the refining of crude petroleum, refining some 270,000 […]

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