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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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Christianity
Assyrian Christian Revival in Turkey

Assyrian Christian Revival in Turkey

(By Alexander Christie-Miller) The Christian Science Monitor recently reported on an Assyrian Christian revival in southeastern Turkey, fueled by a burgeoning Turkish economy and more […]

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Christianity
The Flight to Egypt – Coptic Artwork (Picture of the Day)

The Flight to Egypt – Coptic Artwork (Picture of the Day)

h/t osjusa.org Attributed to the Coptic Museum, Cairo, Egypt Coptic Christians probably came to predominate in Egypt by the 600s when Muslim Arabs conquered it. […]

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Climate Change
Birth of Hope: Top Ten Solar Energy Stories 2013

Birth of Hope: Top Ten Solar Energy Stories 2013

(By Juan Cole) The story of a doomed race who need to be saved by a messiah is on people’s minds today. It functions at […]

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Dissent
Damascus’s Other Battle:  Regime Cyberwar on the Opposition

Damascus’s Other Battle: Regime Cyberwar on the Opposition

(By Dave Maass) Social Engineering and Malware in Syria: EFF and Citizen Lab’s Latest Report on the Digital Battlefield (via EFF) More than two years […]

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Climate Change
Climate Denialists Spending Billions in untraceable Dark Money to fool the Public

Climate Denialists Spending Billions in untraceable Dark Money to fool the Public

(By Lauren McCauley) The expansive misinformation campaign behind climate change denial is increasingly being funded in the dark, reveals a new report published Friday in […]

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History
Chief Rabbi of Yazd, Iran, 1903 (Photo of the Day)

Chief Rabbi of Yazd, Iran, 1903 (Photo of the Day)

The Chief Rabbi of Yazd, Iran, in the center Iran’s population in 1900 was around 10 million. There were roughly 100,000 Jews in Iran at […]

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Egypt
The Iraqization of Egypt: Two Large Bombs Rock Security Bldg in Mansoura, kill 14, wound 130

The Iraqization of Egypt: Two Large Bombs Rock Security Bldg in Mansoura, kill 14, wound 130

(By Juan Cole) Two large explosions at the state security building in downtown Mansoura, Dahqaliya Province, killed at least 14 persons and wounded 130 on […]

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Human Rights
War Crime: Syrian Regime Killed Hundreds of Civilians, including Children, with Airstrikes on Aleppo

War Crime: Syrian Regime Killed Hundreds of Civilians, including Children, with Airstrikes on Aleppo

(By Ole Solvang, senior emergencies researcher, Human Rights Watch) < Dozens of government airstrikes that have killed hundreds of civilians, including children, in Aleppo governorate […]

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Arab Spring
From Tahrir to New Orleans:  Hope has not Failed, it has only Begun

From Tahrir to New Orleans: Hope has not Failed, it has only Begun

(By Rebecca Solnit) Hope, History, and UnpredictabilityBy Rebecca Solnit North American cicada nymphs live underground for 17 years before they emerge as adults. Many seeds […]

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