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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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Ted Cruz and America’s Super-Rich say “Let them eat Cake”

Ted Cruz and America’s Super-Rich say “Let them eat Cake”

The anecdote goes that Marie Antoinette, the queen of France, inquired as to why the crowds were in the street demonstrating in 1789. She was […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Israeli Nuclear & other Arms compared to Iran’s

Israeli Nuclear & other Arms compared to Iran’s

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu came to the US on Monday to lobby Washington against a diplomatic resolution of the conflict over Iran’s civilian nuclear […]

Juan Cole

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US all Right with Arming Syrians, Bombing Syrians:  But no Syrian Refugees need Apply (Meyer)

US all Right with Arming Syrians, Bombing Syrians: But no Syrian Refugees need Apply (Meyer)

Theodoric Meyer writes at ProPublica Authorized by Congress, the CIA has started sending weapons to Syrian rebels. But under a legal definition of terrorism adopted by […]

Juan Cole

US politics
Ghoul’s Glossary:  Shutdown

Ghoul’s Glossary: Shutdown

Shutdown: n. A maneuver whereby persons elected and paid by the public to do little but pass budgets refuse to do so unless they are […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
Scientists: Certain that Human-Caused Climate Change Threatens our Planet (Queally)

Scientists: Certain that Human-Caused Climate Change Threatens our Planet (Queally)

Jon Queally writes at Commondreams.org “Unequivocal.” If the public and policymakers want a single adjective to describe the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Why US Clout in the Middle East is Gone (Hiro)

Why US Clout in the Middle East is Gone (Hiro)

Dilip Hiro writes at Tomdispatch.com: What if the sole superpower on the planet makes its will known — repeatedly — and finds that no one […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Why Israel’s Plan to Bomb Iran is more Dangerous to Israel than Obama-Rouhani Diplomacy

Why Israel’s Plan to Bomb Iran is more Dangerous to Israel than Obama-Rouhani Diplomacy

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has made no secret of his dismay that the Obama administration is entering into what look like serious negotiations with […]

Juan Cole

US politics
You Can have Obamacare, or You can have Cruzcare (Jamiol Cartoon)

You Can have Obamacare, or You can have Cruzcare (Jamiol Cartoon)

Courtesy Jamiol’s world

Juan Cole

Iran
Is Iran out of the US War Queue?  The Twilight of the Hawks

Is Iran out of the US War Queue? The Twilight of the Hawks

The short telephone conversation between US President Barack Obama and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Friday may or may not lead to a successful diplomatic […]

Juan Cole

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