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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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Taliban Attack UN Agency in Kabul, Wounding 7

Taliban Attack UN Agency in Kabul, Wounding 7

The Taliban launched a major attack in the capital of Kabul on Friday, injuring 7 people with a car bomb at the International office of […]

Juan Cole

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Civil Disobedience and Jail Time for Opposing Big Oil: Tim DeChristopher (Moyers Interview)

Civil Disobedience and Jail Time for Opposing Big Oil: Tim DeChristopher (Moyers Interview)

Bill Moyers interviews Tim DeChristopher, leader of Peaceful Uprising, who just got out of jail after serving a two-year sentence for peacefully disrupting an oil […]

Juan Cole

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Nice Speech on Closing Gitmo, Mr. President; but It’s still Open (Schanzer)

David Schanzer writes at Islamicommentary: David Schanzer In his speech at the National Defense University, President Obama made his most impassioned and compelling argument to […]

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My Visit to the Iraqi National Museum (Photo Gallery)

My Visit to the Iraqi National Museum (Photo Gallery)

Here is a photo gallery from my visit on May 9, 2013, to the Iraqi National Museum, courtesy the Ministry of Culture. Ancient Iraq or […]

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"If you Eat a 2000 Hamburgers in the Name of Vegetarianism, You aren't an Extremist Vegetarian"; Nabil responds to Woolwich Murder

“If you Eat a 2000 Hamburgers in the Name of Vegetarianism, You aren’t an Extremist Vegetarian”; Nabil responds to Woolwich Murder

Nabil goes in: A British Muslim responds to the Woolwich murder in which Lee Rigby, 25, of 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, was […]

Juan Cole

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When Politicians promise 'Lower Taxes' they are promising Collapsed Bridges

When Politicians promise ‘Lower Taxes’ they are promising Collapsed Bridges

The next time you hear politicians campaigning on “lower taxes,” you should realize two things. First, they don’t intend to lower your taxes, which are […]

Juan Cole

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President Obama and Counter-Terrorism:  The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

President Obama and Counter-Terrorism: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Here are the good, the bad and the ugly things in President Obama’s important speech on counter-terrorism Thursday, and in the off-stage steps he has […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan

Obama: US will Continue its Targeted Killing with Drones (Woods)

Chris Woods writes at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism Barack Obama has made it clear that the US will continue with its controversial targeted killing […]

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Big Oil’s Hit Men have a Contract to Whack the Earth (Engelhardt)

Big Oil’s Hit Men have a Contract to Whack the Earth (Engelhardt)

Tom Engelhardt writes at Tomdispatch.com: We have a word for the conscious slaughter of a racial or ethnic group: genocide.  And one for the conscious […]

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