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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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Wall Street has a Cow as Town uses Eminent Domain to Help Homeowners avoid Foreclosure (Lazare)

Wall Street has a Cow as Town uses Eminent Domain to Help Homeowners avoid Foreclosure (Lazare)

Eminent Domain for the People Leaves Wall Street Furious Housing justice advocates hopeful about innovative Richmond plan to use public seizure laws to save underwater […]

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Egypt
Top Reasons John McCain and Lindsey Graham have no Credibility for Egypt Talks

Top Reasons John McCain and Lindsey Graham have no Credibility for Egypt Talks

Sen. John McCain and Sen. Lindsey Graham were apparently asked by President Obama to go to Egypt and try to mediate the conflict between the […]

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Domestic Surveillance
The Business of America is Spying on America (Engelhardt)

The Business of America is Spying on America (Engelhardt)

Tom Engelhardt writes at Tomdispatch.com: Hey, let’s talk spying!  In Surveillance America, this land of spookery we all now inhabit, what else is there to […]

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Domestic Surveillance
Top Ten Things that don’t Make Sense about NSA Surveillance, Drones and al-Qaeda

Top Ten Things that don’t Make Sense about NSA Surveillance, Drones and al-Qaeda

In a Reuters Exclusive, John Shiffman and Kristina Cooke reveal that the National Security Agency shares information it gleans from warrantless surveillance of Americans with […]

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Israel
On Eve of "Peace Talks," Israelis Subsidize their West Bank Colonies, build new Units

On Eve of “Peace Talks,” Israelis Subsidize their West Bank Colonies, build new Units

On the eve of resumption of peace talks between Israel and Palestine, the far right Israeli nationalist government of Binyamin Netanyahu attempted to torpedo them […]

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CIA
America's Drone Tally in Pakistan and Yemen for July (Serle and Ross)

America’s Drone Tally in Pakistan and Yemen for July (Serle and Ross)

Jack Serle and Alice K Ross write at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism The CIA killed more people in Pakistan per strike than at any […]

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al Qaeda in the Arabian Penisula
How the GOP Libya Witch Hunt Made us Close our Mideast Embassies and Crippled US Diplomacy

How the GOP Libya Witch Hunt Made us Close our Mideast Embassies and Crippled US Diplomacy

About those US embassy closures in the Middle East: they make the US look like a wimp. The United States is still the world’s primary […]

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Afghanistan
How we lost our Constitution somewhere in Iraq and came back without it to Try Manning (van Buren)

How we lost our Constitution somewhere in Iraq and came back without it to Try Manning (van Buren)

Peter Van Buren writes at Tomdispatch.com On July 30, 1778, the Continental Congress created the first whistleblower protection law, stating “that it is the duty […]

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Energy
The New Neros:  The Koch Bros Profit from Burning the World Up (Halperin Infographic)

The New Neros: The Koch Bros Profit from Burning the World Up (Halperin Infographic)

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