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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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The Middle East Policy of President John Ellis "Jeb" Bush: Iraq, Iran Wars?

The Middle East Policy of President John Ellis “Jeb” Bush: Iraq, Iran Wars?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Jeb Bush announced his run for president on Monday. It is hard to know what his […]

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Flash Fiction:   “The Office”

Flash Fiction: “The Office”

N.B. Fiction with mature themes.             By Juan Cole |             The Office             Adib was winning at cards again.   Bashir was already out, sitting […]

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Arab Americans
In defeat for Israel Lobbies, Professors' Union censures U of Illinois Over Salaita Firing

In defeat for Israel Lobbies, Professors’ Union censures U of Illinois Over Salaita Firing

By Lauren McCauley, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) | – – Attorneys for Professor Steven Salaita called the move by leading academic group ‘a serious blemish […]

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Authoritarianism
Saudi Arabia Lashing Blogger Reveals What Religion Fears Most

Saudi Arabia Lashing Blogger Reveals What Religion Fears Most

Cenk Uygur & John Iadarola | (The Young Turks Video) | – – “The public flogging of jailed blogger Raif Badawi is now “sure” to […]

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Democratic Party
Why Pelosi, Hillary and House Democrats turned on Obama over Asian free trade

Why Pelosi, Hillary and House Democrats turned on Obama over Asian free trade

By Harley Shaiken | (The Conversation) | – – Over the last several days, President Barack Obama pulled out all the stops to pass Trade […]

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Pres. Erdogan sees Syrian Kurds' advance against ISIL as "danger" to Turkey

Pres. Erdogan sees Syrian Kurds’ advance against ISIL as “danger” to Turkey

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The leftist Kurdish Protection Forces (YPG) and their Arab allies, the Euphrates Volcano, continued their assault […]

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Iraq
Next year in Mosul:  Iraqi Kurds cut off ISIL/ Daesh Supply Lines

Next year in Mosul: Iraqi Kurds cut off ISIL/ Daesh Supply Lines

VICE News | (Video report) | – “A year after the Islamic State’s lightning conquest of Iraq’s second-largest city of Mosul, the poorly-trained and equipped […]

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Acidification of Oceans
The Immorality of harming the Earth:  Burning Fossil Fuels is Today's Golden Calf

The Immorality of harming the Earth: Burning Fossil Fuels is Today’s Golden Calf

By Tom Giesen | (Informed Comment) – – In the latter half of the nineteenth century, we began to burn fossil fuels rather casually, without […]

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5,000 Hanging Skirts:  How Women Remember War Rape in Kosova

5,000 Hanging Skirts: How Women Remember War Rape in Kosova

By Frances Trix | (Informed Comment) | – – On 12 June, 5,000 skirts and dresses were hung on 45 clotheslines in the football stadium […]

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