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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

09/20/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

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Is Iran Pres. Rouhani trying to Rehabilitate  Khatami & the Reformers?

Is Iran Pres. Rouhani trying to Rehabilitate Khatami & the Reformers?

By Frud Bezhan | ( RFE/RL ) | – – Iran’s president has broken a long-standing taboo by publicly defending a reformist predecessor, but his […]

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Children
Thousands of Children Under Siege in War-Torn Syria

Thousands of Children Under Siege in War-Torn Syria

By Valentina Ieri | (Inter Press Service) | – – UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – Seeing children dying due to a lack of doctors and medicines, […]

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Is the Clinton Campaign Borrowing Bernie Sanders’ Issues, Rhetoric?

Is the Clinton Campaign Borrowing Bernie Sanders’ Issues, Rhetoric?

By Bianca Perez | ( TeleSur Independent Senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont has stuck to his ideals throughout his campaign and has been criticized by […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Occupation forces from Israel disperse protests in Palestinian West Bank

Occupation forces from Israel disperse protests in Palestinian West Bank

Ma’an News Agency | – – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Scores of demonstrators suffered from excessive tear gas inhalation after Israeli forces dispersed weekly protests in […]

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GOP debate Civil?  Candidates urged torture, child-murder, backing bloody Dictatorships

GOP debate Civil? Candidates urged torture, child-murder, backing bloody Dictatorships

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The headlines Friday about the GOP debate in Miami stressed how relatively civil it was, with […]

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Bill of Rights
The FBI's outrageous assault on the 1st Amendment and Apple

The FBI’s outrageous assault on the 1st Amendment and Apple

By Andrew Crocker | ( Electronic Frontier Foundation ) | – – Last week, EFF filed a brief in support of Apple’s fight against the […]

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Turkey
Turkey's Gender Stereotyping made a Mockery of Women's Day

Turkey’s Gender Stereotyping made a Mockery of Women’s Day

By Ece Basay | ( Globalvoices.org ) | – – March 8 is marked as International Women’s Day in Turkey, and is typified as elsewhere […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Giant British security firm G4S to end Israeli business after BDS pressure

Giant British security firm G4S to end Israeli business after BDS pressure

Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — British security giant G4S announced Wednesday plans to sell its Israeli businesses in the next 12 […]

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journalism
America's Groundhog Day in Afghanistan and Iraq: The Headlines just Recycle

America’s Groundhog Day in Afghanistan and Iraq: The Headlines just Recycle

By Tom Engelhardt | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – With General John Campbell’s tour of duty in Afghanistan finished, a new commander has taken over.  Admittedly, […]

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