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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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Amnesia or Cowardice? American Anniversaries we’d Rather Forget  (Engelhardt)

Amnesia or Cowardice? American Anniversaries we’d Rather Forget (Engelhardt)

Tom Engelhardt writes at Tomdispatch.com It’s true that, last week, few in Congress cared to discuss, no less memorialize, the 10th anniversary of the invasion of […]

Juan Cole

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Dear President Obama:  Let’s Help Yemen instead of Droning It

Dear President Obama: Let’s Help Yemen instead of Droning It

This is a [pdf] letter to President Obama pleading for a substantial rethink of Yemen policy in his second term, which I among other Middle […]

Juan Cole

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Mopping up with Muslim Sharia  (Colbert Report)

Mopping up with Muslim Sharia (Colbert Report)

Among all of the obsessions of the Red States, the fixation on the danger of Muslim law (sharia) taking over the United States is the […]

Juan Cole

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Palestinians Protest illegal Israeli Theft of Water Rights

Palestinians Protest illegal Israeli Theft of Water Rights

Palestinians staged a protest march on Wednesday to protest Israeli denial to their villages of their water rights. Israelis now take 80% of the water […]

Juan Cole

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Republicans not liked, even by 25% of . . . Republicans

Republicans not liked, even by 25% of . . . Republicans

It turns out that 25% of Republicans don’t like their own party. The Republican Party has a structural problem, in that it has only two […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Donald Trump versus the Aberdeen Wind Farm: Fiddling while Rome Burns

Donald Trump versus the Aberdeen Wind Farm: Fiddling while Rome Burns

Scotland has approved 11 wind turbines in Aberdeen, which will supply have the town’s electricity. They are being touted as job-creators and engines of economic […]

Juan Cole

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'Cowboy Windfarm' Powers Oklahoma State U

‘Cowboy Windfarm’ Powers Oklahoma State U

The ‘Cowboy Windfarm’ is now providing 70% of the electricity used by Oklahoma State University!

Juan Cole

Arab World
Instead of offering to Buy East Jerusalem, the Arab League should invite Israel to Join It

Instead of offering to Buy East Jerusalem, the Arab League should invite Israel to Join It

Shaikh Hamad al-Thani, the leader of Qatar, proposed in his speech to the Arab League the creation of a $1 billion fund to preserve the […]

Juan Cole

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Iraq: A country whose Future was Stolen (Jamail)

Iraq: A country whose Future was Stolen (Jamail)

Dahr Jamail writes at Tomdispatch.com Back then, everybody was writing about Iraq, but it’s surprising how few Americans, including reporters, paid much attention to the […]

Juan Cole

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