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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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Iran Election Results Show that when US rewards Pragmatists, they Win

Iran Election Results Show that when US rewards Pragmatists, they Win

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Early results in Iran’s parliamentary elections suggest that the centrists, pragmatists and independents will have more […]

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Islamophobia
US Mil. ‘Expert’ equates Muslim Veiling with  ‘Passive Terrorism’; One woman has Questions for Him

US Mil. ‘Expert’ equates Muslim Veiling with ‘Passive Terrorism’; One woman has Questions for Him

By Domenica Ghanem | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – The U.S. military apparently thinks Muslim women’s clothing choices — rather than, say, drone […]

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Poll: Trump Barely Has Any Support Among Latinos

Poll: Trump Barely Has Any Support Among Latinos

TeleSur | – – According to a new poll, more than 80 percent of all Latinos in the U.S. view Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump […]

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Egypt Jails Novelist Ahmed Naji for 2 years for His ‘Sexually Explicit’ Novel

Egypt Jails Novelist Ahmed Naji for 2 years for His ‘Sexually Explicit’ Novel

By Mohammed Hasan | ( Global Voices | – – A Cairo appeals court sentenced Egyptian novelist and journalist Ahmed Naji for two years in […]

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Israel/ Palestine
European Union, Palestinian PM condemn Israel's deliberate destruction of EU-funded Structures

European Union, Palestinian PM condemn Israel’s deliberate destruction of EU-funded Structures

Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah on Thursday condemned Israel’s “deliberate” destruction of EU-funded structures in the […]

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Rubio's 7 Fallacies on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Rubio’s 7 Fallacies on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – In last night’s Republican debate co-sponsored by Telemundo, billionaire bigot Donald Trump, usually a resident of […]

Juan Cole

Drone Warfare
Money Pit: America's Forever War in Mideast has Gained us What, Exactly?

Money Pit: America’s Forever War in Mideast has Gained us What, Exactly?

Tom Engelhardt | (Tomdispatch.com) | It may be hard to believe now, but in 1970 the protest song “War,” sung by Edwin Starr, hit number […]

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Iran
Beyond Syria:  Saudi Arabia’s Strategies for Dealing with Iran

Beyond Syria: Saudi Arabia’s Strategies for Dealing with Iran

Joseph Benzekri | ( Your Middle East | – – “Claiming to fight ISIS can serve as a valuable pretext for defending one’s own interests” […]

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The Evolution of Social Media use in Mideast 5 years after the Youth Revolts

The Evolution of Social Media use in Mideast 5 years after the Youth Revolts

By Damian Radcliffe | (The Conversation) | – – In 2011, the Arab Spring rocked many parts of the Middle East. Regime change in Tunisia, […]

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