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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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Boston Terrorism suspect Rahim switched from Hate Speech Activist Geller to Police as Target

Boston Terrorism suspect Rahim switched from Hate Speech Activist Geller to Police as Target

WCVB Channel 5 Boston | (Video) | – – “Boston terror suspect Usaamah Rahim originally plotted to behead conservative activist Pamela Geller but changed his […]

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Climate Change
Coal comeback in Europe threatens Climate, Environment (already kills 18,000 a year)

Coal comeback in Europe threatens Climate, Environment (already kills 18,000 a year)

Euractiv | – – Forcible displacements, thousands of deaths and harmful CO2 emissions – the “2015 Coal Atlas”, published by Germany’s Heinrich Böll Foundation, shows […]

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Syrian Refugees Blocked, Stranded in Jordan Desert

Syrian Refugees Blocked, Stranded in Jordan Desert

Human Rights Watch | – – (Beirut) – Jordanian authorities have severely restricted informal border crossings in the eastern part of the country since late […]

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Balkans
"Nationalism and terrorism are constructed things to divide us": Macedonian elections and a Balkan "War on Terror"

“Nationalism and terrorism are constructed things to divide us”: Macedonian elections and a Balkan “War on Terror”

By Frances Trix | (Informed Comment) | – Now it appears, thanks to EU mediation, there will be new national elections in Macedonia next April […]

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Barack Obama
Adelson Tabloid slams Obama for Listening to 'Court Jews' in Questioning Israel's Credibility

Adelson Tabloid slams Obama for Listening to ‘Court Jews’ in Questioning Israel’s Credibility

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – President Barack Obama gave an interview on Israeli television on Tuesday in which he said that Prime […]

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Alevis
Turkish Elections:  Will the Country go Full Putin?

Turkish Elections: Will the Country go Full Putin?

Gulay Icoz | (The Conversation)| – Following a month of fierce campaigning, the people of Turkey are preparing to head to the polling stations for […]

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Government surveillance
Wins and Losses for Liberty and Privacy in USA Freedom Act

Wins and Losses for Liberty and Privacy in USA Freedom Act

By Cindy Cohn and Mark Jaycox | (Electronic Frontier Foundation) | – The Senate passed the USA Freedom Act today by 67-32, marking the first […]

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African-Americans
Going for Broke in Ponzi Scheme America

Going for Broke in Ponzi Scheme America

Tom Engelhardt | (Tomdispatch.com) | – [Note to TomDispatch Readers: I’ve long had a weakness for commencement addresses, or at least for what they might be […]

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Apartheid
Lawyer: Palestinian children facing torture in Israeli jails

Lawyer: Palestinian children facing torture in Israeli jails

RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Palestinian children are being beaten and tortured in a “heinous” way by Israeli soldiers during interrogation, a Palestinian Authority lawyer has said. […]

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