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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

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Venezuela to Boost Palestine to Full Embassy Status

Venezuela to Boost Palestine to Full Embassy Status

By Ben Tavener – IMEMC/PNN – Venezuela will boost its diplomatic representation in Palestine to full embassy status, according to the Venezuelan minister for foreign […]

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Christianity
Conservative, Catholic Ireland 1st Country to vote in Gay Marriage

Conservative, Catholic Ireland 1st Country to vote in Gay Marriage

Channel 4 News | (Video) – “Support for gay marriage in Ireland reaches 65 per cent with just the final votes to be counted – […]

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Bill of Rights
Snowden's Revenge:  USA "Freedom" [Surveillance] Act Fails in Senate

Snowden’s Revenge: USA “Freedom” [Surveillance] Act Fails in Senate

By Nadia Prupis, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) — “The failure of these bills to pass shows just how dramatically the politics of surveillance changed once […]

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Daesh/ ISIL blows up Shiite Mosque in Saudi Arabia, seeking Sectarian Civil War

Daesh/ ISIL blows up Shiite Mosque in Saudi Arabia, seeking Sectarian Civil War

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – A suicide bomber with a concealed weapon detonated his payload during Friday prayers at the Ali b. […]

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GCC
Richest Countries Bomb among World's Poorest:  Yemen already a Forgotten War

Richest Countries Bomb among World’s Poorest: Yemen already a Forgotten War

VICE News | (Video) | – “For more than six weeks, nine countries led by Saudi Arabia have been carrying out airstrikes on Yemen, the […]

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Climate Change
Now Jeb Bush thinks Scientists are Arrogant for Discovering Climate Change

Now Jeb Bush thinks Scientists are Arrogant for Discovering Climate Change

John Iadarola and Ben Mankiewicz | (The Young Turks) | (Video) – “A few weeks back we gave Jeb Bush credit for admitting that climate […]

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Bill of Rights
Obama Prosecutes another Whistleblower to Senate for "Espionage"

Obama Prosecutes another Whistleblower to Senate for “Espionage”

By John Kiriakou | (Foreign Policy in Focus) Jeffrey Sterling learned the hard way that the feds will throw the book at anyone who embarrasses […]

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Apartheid
World Bank Warns of Total Collapse of Economy in Gaza

World Bank Warns of Total Collapse of Economy in Gaza

IMEMC | — The World Bank will be presenting a report to the bi-annual Ad Hoc Liaison Committee (AHLC) meeting on May 27, 2015 in […]

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Bashar al-Assad
ISIL beheaded Dozens in Palmyra, but how Strategic is the City?

ISIL beheaded Dozens in Palmyra, but how Strategic is the City?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – Nearly 500 people died in the campaign by Daesh (ISIL, ISIS) to take the Syrian city of […]

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