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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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Israeli Peace Activists agree War must end with some form of Democracy for All

Israeli Peace Activists agree War must end with some form of Democracy for All

By Atalia Omer, University of Notre Dame | – (The Conversation) – The months since Hamas’ attacks on Oct. 7, 2023, have been excruciating ones […]

The Conversation

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Is Tehran Winning the Middle East? How the Gaza Conflict Made Democracy's Name Mud for Millions

Is Tehran Winning the Middle East? How the Gaza Conflict Made Democracy’s Name Mud for Millions

Here is my latest column for Tomdispatch.com. Do check out Tom Engelhardt’s important introduction over there at the original site. ( Tomdispatch.com ) – In […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
To Defend Israel's Actions, the US is Destroying the Int'l Legal System it once Constructed

To Defend Israel’s Actions, the US is Destroying the Int’l Legal System it once Constructed

( Middle East Monitor ) – In a conversation in 2020 with Princeton Professor Emeritus, Richard Falk, he told me that historically, colonised nations that […]

Ramzy Baroud

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The War in Gaza is wiping out Palestine's Education and Knowledge Systems

The War in Gaza is wiping out Palestine’s Education and Knowledge Systems

By Chandni Desai, University of Toronto | – (The Conversation) – Gaza’s education system has suffered significantly since Israel’s bombardment and assault on the strip […]

The Conversation

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War, Trauma, and Forgetting

War, Trauma, and Forgetting

Orono, Maine (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Our memories are often suppressed by trauma, a word derived from “Traumatiko”, a wound or mental shock. […]

Hugh J. Curran

Israel/ Palestine
Palestinians of Gaza are Starving:  Don't Cut Aid

Palestinians of Gaza are Starving: Don’t Cut Aid

By Phyllis Bennis | ( Otherwords.org ) – Earlier this year, the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel’s actions in Gaza plausibly constitute genocide. […]

OtherWords

nationalism
My Malaysia Ordeal shows how Religion can Fuse with Nationalism to Silence Dissent

My Malaysia Ordeal shows how Religion can Fuse with Nationalism to Silence Dissent

By Ahmet T. Kuru, San Diego State University | – (The Conversation) – I hadn’t expected my book tour in Malaysia to end with a […]

The Conversation

Dissent
Aaron Bushnell Sacrificed himself to Stop Gaza Genocide: "I won't be Complicit"

Aaron Bushnell Sacrificed himself to Stop Gaza Genocide: “I won’t be Complicit”

Connecticut (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Despondence, mixed with commitment, courage, and action, can be a starter for epochal change. Aaron Bushnell set himself […]

Azam Saeed

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Islamophobia: Defending Rutgers’ Center for Security, Race and Rights from Senate Judiciary Committee

Islamophobia: Defending Rutgers’ Center for Security, Race and Rights from Senate Judiciary Committee

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association of North America | Senator Richard Durbin Chair, Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate fax: […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

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