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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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How our Standing Wars are Warping Us

How our Standing Wars are Warping Us

Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – On successive days recently, I saw two museum shows that caught something of a lost American world […]

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Internet
Israeli Software to plant Propaganda on Social Media

Israeli Software to plant Propaganda on Social Media

IMEMC | – – The Israeli government has purchased a software system enabling it to monitor social media and specific users to plan ideas in […]

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Green Energy
Can the Global Mining Industry go Green?

Can the Global Mining Industry go Green?

By Joseph Kirschke | (Next Billion) | – – In recent months, events across three continents showed how clean energy use by the mining industry, […]

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Authoritarianism
Strongman:  The Bloodstained Rise of Global Populism

Strongman: The Bloodstained Rise of Global Populism

By Alfred W. McCoy | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – In 2016, something extraordinary happened in the politics of diverse countries around the world. With […]

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Israel/ Palestine
PM May:  Take back the Balfour Declaration - Israel reneged on the Bargain

PM May: Take back the Balfour Declaration – Israel reneged on the Bargain

By Ian Berman | (Informed Comment) | – – Dear Prime Minister May: The centennial of the Balfour Declaration is upon us. Accordingly, we think […]

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Authoritarianism
Trump, al-Sisi and Tightening up the Pressure Cooker

Trump, al-Sisi and Tightening up the Pressure Cooker

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – President Trump met Monday with Egyptian field marshal/ president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Trump effused, “We agree […]

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American Jews
What history reveals about surges in anti-Semitism and anti-immigrant sentiments

What history reveals about surges in anti-Semitism and anti-immigrant sentiments

By Ingrid Anderson | (The Conversation) | – – This February, more than 100 gravestones were vandalized at the Chesed Shel Emeth Society Cemetery outside […]

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Bashar al-Assad
Has Trump deferred to Russia in Syria?

Has Trump deferred to Russia in Syria?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Elizabeth Palmer reported from Ankara last Thursday that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson had difficult and […]

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Iran
ISIL Threatens To Conquer Iran, issuing Rare Video In Persian

ISIL Threatens To Conquer Iran, issuing Rare Video In Persian

Golnaz Esfandiari | ( RFE/RL) | – – The militant group Islamic State (IS) has vowed in a rare video message in Persian that includes […]

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