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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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Should US policy toward ISIL be Containment?

Should US policy toward ISIL be Containment?

By Juan Cole The US launched air strikes on Tuesday on ISIL targets, south of Baghdad and also in the north. The ones south of […]

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Hurricane cuts off communication with Chabad in Baja California

Hurricane cuts off communication with Chabad in Baja California

Rabbi and 9-month-pregnant wife in early labor have not been heard from since Monday evening

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I refuse to serve – the lonely conscience of Israel’s refuseniks

I refuse to serve – the lonely conscience of Israel’s refuseniks

By Ahron Bregman, King’s College London via The Conversation In 1988, I was in Kathmandu in Nepal when I found out that war was raging […]

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Crime
Employers' theft from Worker Wages 3 times more than all other Theft in US

Employers’ theft from Worker Wages 3 times more than all other Theft in US

The Young Turks “As the economy slowly recovers, it’s become increasingly clear that it’s not just unemployed Americans who need help from the government. It’s […]

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Iraq
Turkey's Caution on ISIL War: "It's far away for them but very close to us"

Turkey’s Caution on ISIL War: “It’s far away for them but very close to us”

By Ali Murat Yel, Editor-in-Chief TurkeyAgenda In the United States the public has difficulty in understanding the reluctance of Turkey to join the international coalition […]

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Must Muslim Americans Condemn ISIL?  Must Turkish Jews Condemn Gaza War?

Must Muslim Americans Condemn ISIL? Must Turkish Jews Condemn Gaza War?

By Juan Cole During the recent Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, a controversy broke out in Turkey about whether Turkish Jews were required to […]

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Apartheid
15 Palestinians die in Mediterranean Capsizing, fleeing Israeli Siege of Gaza

15 Palestinians die in Mediterranean Capsizing, fleeing Israeli Siege of Gaza

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Fifteen migrants from Gaza died on Saturday after a boat they were riding in capsized in the Mediterranean sea off the coast […]

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HIstoric Mass March against Global Warming:  Saving the Planet Next Sunday in NYC

HIstoric Mass March against Global Warming: Saving the Planet Next Sunday in NYC

By Eddie Bautista, La Tonya Crisp-Sauray, and Bill McKibben On Sunday, September 21st, a huge crowd will march through the middle of Manhattan. It will […]

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Iraq
As Sunni MPs Plea for Precision US Strikes, Iraqi Gov't Kills 31 in School Shelter

As Sunni MPs Plea for Precision US Strikes, Iraqi Gov’t Kills 31 in School Shelter

Human Rights Watch (Erbil) – The Iraqi government should promptly investigate an airstrike that hit a school housing displaced people near Tikrit on September 1, […]

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