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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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Iran
Iran’s President Rouhani and the New Hopes for Diplomacy (Sternfeld)

Iran’s President Rouhani and the New Hopes for Diplomacy (Sternfeld)

Something about hope Since coming to office in August, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has done everything to spell out the profound difference between his administration […]

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Climate Change
Can we have a Military-Green Energy Complex Instead, Please?  (Kramer & Pemberton)

Can we have a Military-Green Energy Complex Instead, Please? (Kramer & Pemberton)

Mattea Kramer and Miriam Pemberton write at Tomdispatch.com A trillion dollars.  It’s a lot of money.  In a year it could send 127 million college […]

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Iran
Iran’s Rouhani:  Not Seeking the Bomb, Willing to show Flexibility

Iran’s Rouhani: Not Seeking the Bomb, Willing to show Flexibility

Ann Curry of NBC News gets a scoop, with an interview with Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani, in which he restates Iran’s position that it is […]

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Energy
Top Ten Solar Power good news Stories Today

Top Ten Solar Power good news Stories Today

Climate change produced by human burning of fossil fuels is a dire challenge to life as we know it on earth, and it will likely […]

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Government surveillance
Brazilian President Snubs Obama:   How US Cyber Espionage will Destroy the Internet

Brazilian President Snubs Obama: How US Cyber Espionage will Destroy the Internet

The USG Open Source Center reports on Brazilian press reaction to President Dilma Roussef’s decision to cancel her state visit to Washington DC this fall, […]

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Energy
Solar Car of the Future:  Sunswift Solar Two-Seater looks like an ordinary Coupe

Solar Car of the Future: Sunswift Solar Two-Seater looks like an ordinary Coupe

Giles Parkinson writes that this year Sunswift is making a revolutionary and exciting entry in the annual University of New South Wales solar car competition: […]

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Domestic Surveillance
How the National Security State creates its own Whistleblowers, with a Letter to the Next One (Engelhardt)

How the National Security State creates its own Whistleblowers, with a Letter to the Next One (Engelhardt)

Tom Engelhardt writes at Tomdispatch.com Dear Whistleblower, I don’t know who you are or what you do or how old you may be. I just […]

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Syria
UN Report Conclusive Sarin used on wide Scale, Points to Syrian Regime

UN Report Conclusive Sarin used on wide Scale, Points to Syrian Regime

When reports of a chemical weapons attack in Rif Dimashq near Damascus on August 21 first surfaced, some observers questioned whether these were really chemical […]

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44 yearly Murders by Firearms in Britain [220 equiv.] vs. 8,583 in US;  US Navy now Menaced

44 yearly Murders by Firearms in Britain [220 equiv.] vs. 8,583 in US; US Navy now Menaced

Aaron Alexis carried out the mass murder of 13 people at the Navy Yard with an AR-15 assault rifle and a shotgun. AR-15 Bushmasters are […]

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