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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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In Absence of US Leadership, War Breaks out between Kurds and Baghdad

In Absence of US Leadership, War Breaks out between Kurds and Baghdad

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The “Voice of Iraq” reports that last night artillery duels broke out between Iraqi army forces […]

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Al-Shabab
Nearly 300 dead in Somalia Terrorist Attack (largely ignored by US TV News)

Nearly 300 dead in Somalia Terrorist Attack (largely ignored by US TV News)

TeleSur | – – “In our 10-year experience as first responders in Mogadishu, we haven’t seen anything like this,” the Aamin Ambulance service posted on […]

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Arab World
How Trump's Foreign Policy Mood Swings made US a Rogue State

How Trump’s Foreign Policy Mood Swings made US a Rogue State

By John Feffer | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – From his feud with Bob Corker to his plans to renege on the Iran […]

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Climate Change
Singer Marc Anthony to Trump: You will be held Accountable for needless American Deaths in Puerto Rico

Singer Marc Anthony to Trump: You will be held Accountable for needless American Deaths in Puerto Rico

Marc Anthony calls Trump approach to Puerto Rico disaster “tone-deaf, idiotic, callous and disrespectful”

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
SNL: Kelly Anne Conway as "It" devours Anderson Cooper

SNL: Kelly Anne Conway as “It” devours Anderson Cooper

Horrific satire on Trump’s chief obfuscator

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Bill of Rights
Under Trump, Gitmo continues to Gnaw away at tattered US Rule of Law

Under Trump, Gitmo continues to Gnaw away at tattered US Rule of Law

Extra-Judicial denial of habeas corpus or trial leaves ‘Enemy Combatants’ in Limbo

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Archaeology
Yes, White Supremacists, some Vikings were Muslims & Thor was Brown

Yes, White Supremacists, some Vikings were Muslims & Thor was Brown

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The archeological identification of stylized Arabic text for God (Allah) and Ali (the prophet Muhammad’s cousin […]

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Fossil Fuels
Oklahoma's Ominous Earthquakes: the Price of Fracking (Video)

Oklahoma’s Ominous Earthquakes: the Price of Fracking (Video)

Hydraulic Fracturing implicated in severe seismic activity and plus it releases heat-trapping gas methane

Juan Cole

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Why do the Super-Rich hate the Poor & Workers so Much?

Why do the Super-Rich hate the Poor & Workers so Much?

As Trump deliberately crashes Obamacare and deprives millions of health insurance

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