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Turkiye hosts Largest Solar Power Plant of any European Country, as its Solar Installations Surge to 3.1 GW in H1
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Turkiye hosts Largest Solar Power Plant of any European Country, as its Solar Installations Surge to 3.1 GW in H1

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Turkiye [Turkey] is a European country, since part of its territory lies in Europe. So the following sentence is true: […]

Palestinian Statehood is winning major new Supporters at UN – but symbolic Action won’t make it happen

Palestinian Statehood is winning major new Supporters at UN – but symbolic Action won’t make it happen

09/20/2025 By The Conversation

Protesting UC Berkeley handing Names of Faculty and Students  to Dept. of Education

Protesting UC Berkeley handing Names of Faculty and Students to Dept. of Education

09/20/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

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Children
#Bringbackourgirls: How Trump made the US into Boko Haram

#Bringbackourgirls: How Trump made the US into Boko Haram

One of the horrible practices of the radical group was stealing children from their parents and making them disappear into “social death”

Juan Cole

Climate Change
CO2 Catastrophe for Egypt: Rising Seas, Salinization to Displace 5 mn by 2025

CO2 Catastrophe for Egypt: Rising Seas, Salinization to Displace 5 mn by 2025

Cairo (Middle East Monitor) – The climate change on Egypt’s northern coast is expected to lead to the migration of at least five million people […]

Middle East Monitor

Immigration
How Trump's Executive Order Reversing Family Separation just Makes Things Worse

How Trump’s Executive Order Reversing Family Separation just Makes Things Worse

The executive order includes no provision to reunite the 2,300 separated families and illegally proposes to detain children indefinitely. Caracas (TeleSur) – United States President […]

TeleSur

Immigration
At US Border, Children Still ‘crying and screaming’ for Mothers

At US Border, Children Still ‘crying and screaming’ for Mothers

“Some of the mothers could see their children but couldn’t get near to them, some of them couldn’t see them.”

Leila Macor

African-Americans
Police Killings of African-Americans exact Mental Health Toll: The Lancet

Police Killings of African-Americans exact Mental Health Toll: The Lancet

The disproportionately high rate at which unarmed black people die at the hands of police has an impact on the mental health of black Americans

AFP

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Not only Is Trump's Refugee Policy Morally Wrong, it is Illegal in US and Int'l Law

Not only Is Trump’s Refugee Policy Morally Wrong, it is Illegal in US and Int’l Law

The US is a signatory state to a 1967 protocol that binds it to act in concert with the UN High Commissioner on Refugees

Juan Cole

Immigration
Look Deeper:  Child Detention and the US's Paramilitary Politics Abroad

Look Deeper: Child Detention and the US’s Paramilitary Politics Abroad

Throughout Central America extreme inequality along with ruthless and repressive governments have led to a pathological politics

John Buell

social media
Turkey: Social Media Activists Resist Authoritarian Pres. Erdogan in Run-Up to Elections

Turkey: Social Media Activists Resist Authoritarian Pres. Erdogan in Run-Up to Elections

Essex (The Conversation) – Turkey will soon go to the polls for the fifth time in less than four years. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced […]

Rabia Karakaya Polat

Government surveillance
Are Police Tracking You Using Facial Recognition? (Video)

Are Police Tracking You Using Facial Recognition? (Video)

AJ+ explores the risks and benefits of facial recognition software

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin

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