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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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Gaza:  Netanyahu, Goaded by Israeli Far Right, Risks Breaking Int'l Law

Gaza: Netanyahu, Goaded by Israeli Far Right, Risks Breaking Int’l Law

Gaza invasion gets underway as pressure mounts on Netanyahu By Simon Mabon, Lancaster University “Phase two” of Operation Protective Edge has begun: Israeli military forces […]

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Egypt
Gaza meets the New Politics of the Middle East: "Islamic State," Egypt, Turkey

Gaza meets the New Politics of the Middle East: “Islamic State,” Egypt, Turkey

By Juan Cole The Israeli security establishment was almost certainly encouraged to launch its military assault on little Gaza by the current divisions over political […]

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Health Catastrophe in Gaza after Israel bombs water infrastructure

Health Catastrophe in Gaza after Israel bombs water infrastructure

By: Ahmed Hadi Gaza – Bassem Siam carried two plastic gallons as he left his home in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in northern Gaza, ignoring […]

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Displaced and Refugees
Blow-Back:  How Bush-Cheney Reduced Iraq to Ashes

Blow-Back: How Bush-Cheney Reduced Iraq to Ashes

By Dahr Jamail [This essay is a joint TomDispatch/Truthout report.] For Americans, it was like the news from nowhere.  Years had passed since reporters bothered […]

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Economy
Besieged and Blockaded: What Gaza is fighting Back Against

Besieged and Blockaded: What Gaza is fighting Back Against

Ed. note: When war breaks out there is a tendency to focus on the nitty-gritty detail of tit for tat. But all wars have a […]

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Islam-hatred
Where's the Outrage over Spying on US Muslim Civil Rights Leaders?

Where’s the Outrage over Spying on US Muslim Civil Rights Leaders?

TheRealNews: “Where’s the Outrage Over Spying on Muslim Civil Rights Leaders?”

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Falluja and Gaza:  Why Counter-Terrorism fails when the Problem is Political

Falluja and Gaza: Why Counter-Terrorism fails when the Problem is Political

By Juan Cole There are such things as small terrorist groups that do a lot of harm and lack any significant social or political support. […]

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Israel
Netanyahu's Last Stand:  Why he Cannot Win by Bombing Gaza

Netanyahu’s Last Stand: Why he Cannot Win by Bombing Gaza

Published on Wednesday, July 16, 2014 by Common Dreams By Ramzy Baroud When the bodies of three Israeli settlers – Aftali Frenkel and Gilad Shaar, […]

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Islam
The Pretender-Caliph and Islamic History: The Truth about Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

The Pretender-Caliph and Islamic History: The Truth about Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

By Asma Afsaruddin So Muslims of the twenty-first century have a caliph, do they? According to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the […]

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