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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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Are the 17 Intel Agencies now the Fourth Branch of Government?

Are the 17 Intel Agencies now the Fourth Branch of Government?

By Tom Engelhardt via Tomdispatch.com The Fourth Branch The Rise to Power of the National Security State By Tom Engelhardt As every schoolchild knows, there […]

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Apartheid
The Hateful Likud Charter Calls for Destruction of Any Palestinian State

The Hateful Likud Charter Calls for Destruction of Any Palestinian State

By Jonathan Weiler Since virtually every comment on Hamas in American media includes the assertion that the group’s Charter rejects Israel’s right to exist, it’s […]

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Iran’s elite Guards fighting in Iraq to push back ISIS

Iran’s elite Guards fighting in Iraq to push back ISIS

In early July, hundreds of mourners gathered for the funeral of Kamal Shirkhani in Lavasan, a small town northeast of Tehran.

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Proposition 1:  How to Swindle the Middle Class

Proposition 1: How to Swindle the Middle Class

By Cathy Stripe Lester On August 5, Michigan taxpayers will be asked to vote on Proposition 1, which is being presented in commercials as a […]

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Do you Think your Smartphone Location Data is Private?  The Police Don't

Do you Think your Smartphone Location Data is Private? The Police Don’t

By Hanni Fakhoury via EFF The Fourth Amendment protects us from “unreasonable” government searches of our persons, houses, papers and effects. How courts should determine […]

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Apartheid
"Mr. Netanyahu is Engaged in the Liquidation of an Entire Nation" - Powerful Palestinian Statement from West Bank

“Mr. Netanyahu is Engaged in the Liquidation of an Entire Nation” – Powerful Palestinian Statement from West Bank

BBC: Spokesman for Fatah, Dr Husam Zomlot tells the BBC News that Israeli PM Netanyahu is guilty of ‘ liquidation of an entire nation’. ‘We […]

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Apartheid
UN on Gaza:  Health System Collapse, 25% Displaced, 5% w/ Clean Water, Epidemic Threat, Generally Mad Max

UN on Gaza: Health System Collapse, 25% Displaced, 5% w/ Clean Water, Epidemic Threat, Generally Mad Max

By United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Occupied Palestinian Territory: Gaza Emergency Situation Report Highlights • The Rafah area was subject to […]

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"Dead Children Names Too Threatening For Israel" - Something being Covered Up (Young Turks)

“Dead Children Names Too Threatening For Israel” – Something being Covered Up (Young Turks)

The Young Turks: “”The Israeli Broadcasting Authority has banned a radio advertisement from a human rights organisation which listed the names of some of the […]

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Boycott of Israel Spreads in European Civil Society over Gaza War, Could Cost $5 bn/ yr

Boycott of Israel Spreads in European Civil Society over Gaza War, Could Cost $5 bn/ yr

By Juan Cole The ill-considered and remarkably brutal Gaza war likely will give further impetus to the Boycott, Sanction and Divestment movement by Western civil […]

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