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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

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Trump Finally Ditches the Iran Nuclear Deal, but at What Cost?

Trump Finally Ditches the Iran Nuclear Deal, but at What Cost?

Mohammed Nuruzzaman | (Informed Comment) | – – President Trump is set to decertify the Iran nuclear deal, as reported by the global news media. […]

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Afghanistan
What if we Gave Seven Wars and No Americans Noticed?

What if we Gave Seven Wars and No Americans Noticed?

By Andrew J. Bacevich | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – Consider, if you will, these two indisputable facts.  First, the United States is today more […]

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Top Ten Renewable Energy surprises in New IEA Report

Top Ten Renewable Energy surprises in New IEA Report

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – A new International Energy Agency report contains some startling findings about solar energy dominance and its […]

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What’s Stopping Media From Calling Las Vegas Killer a “Terrorist”? His Whiteness

What’s Stopping Media From Calling Las Vegas Killer a “Terrorist”? His Whiteness

Zenobia Jeffries | ( Yes! Magazine) | – – Like other mass shooters before him, Stephen Paddock has the benefit of White privilege even in […]

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One Day's News:  American Apocalypse?

One Day’s News: American Apocalypse?

H. Patricia Hynes | (Informed Comment) | – – On Wednesday October 4, the news carried an apocalyptic version of our country with its chaotic […]

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Rouhani: Ten Trumps couldn't scrap Iran Deal

Rouhani: Ten Trumps couldn’t scrap Iran Deal

TeleSur | – – “The nuclear deal was our moral victory,” Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said. Amid speculation that U.S. President Donald Trump is to […]

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Plummeting in Polls, will Trump ‘Wag the Dog’ with Iran, N. Korea?

Plummeting in Polls, will Trump ‘Wag the Dog’ with Iran, N. Korea?

Why did president speak of ‘calm before the storm’?

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Can the West Help the Rohingya of Myanmar/ Burma?

Can the West Help the Rohingya of Myanmar/ Burma?

By Ludovica Marchi | (LSE: British Politics and Policy) | – – Violence in Myanmar has resulted in more than 400,000 Rohingya Muslims leaving the […]

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Industrial Mercury (including Coal) & the Communities it has Poisoned

Industrial Mercury (including Coal) & the Communities it has Poisoned

By Joshua Sokol | (Mosaic) | – – From 1932 to 1968, hundreds of tonnes of mercury seeped into the clear waters of Minamata Bay, […]

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