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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

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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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By Robert Harvey | (Project Syndicate) | – – LONDON – Hassan Rouhani has won re-election as Iran’s president in a landslide, meaning that it […]

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By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump’s speech on Islam, written by notorious Islamophobe Stephen Miller, who used to organize Orwellian Two […]

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Trump in Absolute Monarchy during Iran’s Election

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The spectacle of Trump and of cronies such as alt-Neo-Nazi Steve Bannon hobnobbing with the Saudi […]

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Should Facebook & Google be Taxed to fund Journalism?

Ben Eltham | (The Conversation) | – – There was a fascinating moment towards the end of Wednesday’s hearings of the Senate Inquiry into the […]

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Alabama Passes Bill to Protect Confederate Monuments even at cost of Economy

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TeleSur | – – Some Southern cities are rethinking the appropriateness of keeping such emblems on public property. Not Alabama. Alabama lawmakers on Friday approved […]

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Palestinians: 'Day of Rage' against Trump in occupied West Bank

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Ma’an News Agency | – – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Palestinian factions in the central occupied West Bank city of Ramallah have called upon the Palestinian […]

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If Trump can Hunt the Undocumented by Cell Phone, what can he do to You?

If Trump can Hunt the Undocumented by Cell Phone, what can he do to You?

By Adam Schwartz | (Electronic Frontier Foundation) | – – In the latest sign of mission creep in domestic deployment of battlefield-strength surveillance technology, U.S. […]

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TeleSur | – – Swedish prosecutors dropped the rape investigation into WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Friday, saying the investigation had not been able to […]

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Are Iran and Saudi Arabia Heading Toward War?

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By Mohammed Nuruzzaman | (Informed Comment) | – – Relations across the Persian Gulf are deteriorating fast. Iran and Saudi Arabia are once again at […]

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