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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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After fall of Ramadi to ISIL, does Iraq have a future?

After fall of Ramadi to ISIL, does Iraq have a future?

By Brian M Downing | (Informed Comment) | – Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province, has fallen to forces of the Islamic State of Iraq […]

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Apartheid
Israel Pushes Negev Bedouin Palestinians into a Corner

Israel Pushes Negev Bedouin Palestinians into a Corner

By Ari Heistein | (Informed Comment) | –   Israel’s latest move to demolish a Bedouin village and replace it with homes for Jewish citizens […]

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Apartheid
Who does Jerusalem belong To?

Who does Jerusalem belong To?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – Far right Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu commemorated Israel’s “Jerusalem Day” with a speech in which he […]

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Environment
Seattle Activists, Native Americans Kayak to Protest Shell Arctic Drilling

Seattle Activists, Native Americans Kayak to Protest Shell Arctic Drilling

By Deirdre Fulton, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) | — Kayaks began lining up on the shores of Seattle’s Elliot Bay early Saturday morning in preparation […]

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Islam-hatred
Sharia Law Comes To Walmart, According To Allen West

Sharia Law Comes To Walmart, According To Allen West

Cenk Uygur | (The Young Turks) | – “”Fox News contributor Allen West went to Walmart and thought he was the victim of “Sharia law” […]

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Counter-Terrorism
As ISIL takes Ramadi:  America's Hydra Problem in the Middle East

As ISIL takes Ramadi: America’s Hydra Problem in the Middle East

By Inge Fryklund | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | — In the Greek myth, Heracles battles the Hydra — a multi-headed reptilian monster that was […]

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Apartheid
Illegal Israeli Squatters uproot hundreds of Palestinian olive trees near Hebron

Illegal Israeli Squatters uproot hundreds of Palestinian olive trees near Hebron

HEBRON (Ma’an) – Israeli settlers destroyed and uprooted hundreds of olive saplings in the Palestinian town of al-Shuyoukh northeast of Hebron in the southern West […]

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Arab Spring
Death Sentence for Morsi:  Egypt's Junta takes another step toward being N. Korea

Death Sentence for Morsi: Egypt’s Junta takes another step toward being N. Korea

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – That the only freely elected president Egypt has ever known has been sentenced to death is only […]

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Displaced and Refugees
Floating Graveyard: 6000 Migrants, incl. Rohingya Muslims, Marooned in SE Asia Seas

Floating Graveyard: 6000 Migrants, incl. Rohingya Muslims, Marooned in SE Asia Seas

By Kanya D’Almeida | — UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – On Thursday, May 14, a group of journalists rented a boat from Ko Lipe, a small […]

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