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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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Why this and not that?  America’s topsy turvy priorities

Why this and not that? America’s topsy turvy priorities

Why this and not that? I don’t understand my own country much of the time. For instance, in his first major public speech after resigning […]

Juan Cole

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Obama’s Israel Trip Reinforced Dangerous Fantasies of the Right on Iran (Chernus)

Obama’s Israel Trip Reinforced Dangerous Fantasies of the Right on Iran (Chernus)

Ira Chernus writes at Tomdispatch.com Barack Obama came to Israel and Palestine, saw what he wanted to see, and conquered the mainstream media with his […]

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Egypt’s War on Satire:  Prosecutor Summons Cairo’s Jon Stewart

Egypt’s War on Satire: Prosecutor Summons Cairo’s Jon Stewart

I have long held that the worst thing about religious fundamentalism is that it is humorless. And, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood is proving me right. […]

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As they did to Iraq, they would Do to Iran (Jamiol Cartoon)

As they did to Iraq, they would Do to Iran (Jamiol Cartoon)

Recycled WMD charges: From Jamiol’s World

Juan Cole

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How We’re making a Frankenstein’s Monster of our Climate (Giesen)

How We’re making a Frankenstein’s Monster of our Climate (Giesen)

Tom Giesen writes in a guest column at Informed Comment The option to avoid 3.6 degrees F (2 degrees C) of global warming – our […]

Juan Cole

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Dear Rightwing Catholic Islamophobes:  Pope Francis just washed the feet of a Poor Muslim

Dear Rightwing Catholic Islamophobes: Pope Francis just washed the feet of a Poor Muslim

Pope Francis on Maundy Thursday declined to address enormous crowds. Instead he went to a prison to emulate Jesus’s act of humility before his crucifixion […]

Juan Cole

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Vaccinations are not Harming our Children, but Coal sure is!

Vaccinations are not Harming our Children, but Coal sure is!

Yet again, researchers have found that there is no link between vaccines and autism. It is a myth, a hysteria, and a dangerous one, since […]

Juan Cole

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Carter: Guinea Worm parasite on verge of being wiped out (Cenk Uygur)

Carter: Guinea Worm parasite on verge of being wiped out (Cenk Uygur)

Cenk Uygur interviews former president Jimmy Carter concerning his imminent complete eradication of the deadly guinea worm: This extremely impressive achievement of Carter and his […]

Juan Cole

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If Guns were as Regulated as Cars . . . (Poster)

If Guns were as Regulated as Cars . . . (Poster)

h/t Allvoices

Juan Cole

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