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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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Error message Fahrenheit 451 for Censorship?

Error message Fahrenheit 451 for Censorship?

The Guardian reports that a new internet error message may be created to indicate that a site has been censored. It has been suggested that […]

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Energy
Solar Plane flies from Spain to Morocco, then into Morocco's rugged Interior

Solar Plane flies from Spain to Morocco, then into Morocco’s rugged Interior

The solar-powered Solar Impulse airplane built by a Swiss concern, having flown successfully from Madrid to Rabat, has just completed a flight over the Moroccan […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Brotherhood, Salafis, Camp out at Tahrir amid Thosands

Brotherhood, Salafis, Camp out at Tahrir amid Thosands

On Thursday, protesters heeded the call of the Muslim Brotherhood to fill Tahrir Square with tens of thousands of protesters, as they continued to reject […]

Juan Cole

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UN Official: CIA Drone Strikes on Rescuers a War Crime (Serle)

Jack Serle writes at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism: The UN’s expert on extrajudicial killings has described a tactic used by the CIA and first […]

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Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam (153) “they do not even reckon them as human”

Omar Khayyam (153) “they do not even reckon them as human”

The elite and lofty crowd who hold exalted office are disgusted at the life of  grief and bother that they suffer. But when they consider […]

Juan Cole

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Campbell: Israeli PM Sharon Threatened Bush with Nuking Iraq (Mearsheimber & Walt vindicated)

Campbell: Israeli PM Sharon Threatened Bush with Nuking Iraq (Mearsheimber & Walt vindicated)

Alastair Campbell’s serialized memoirs contain a bombshell that is largely being ignored in the Western press, the revelation that in conversations with President George W. […]

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Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam (149) “nothing left of good times but the name”

Omar Khayyam (149) “nothing left of good times but the name”

Now that nothing is left of good times but the name; and save for wine itself, not a single  old drinking buddy is around any […]

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Egypt
Uncertainty Grips an Egypt on the Brink

Uncertainty Grips an Egypt on the Brink

The on-again, off-again saga of the reports on deposed dictator Hosni Mubarak’s coma exemplified the uncertainty through which Egyptians are living on Tuesday. In the […]

Juan Cole

Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam (145) “my bewilderment”

Omar Khayyam (145) “my bewilderment”

  I was disturbed that he brought me into being, and nothing has grown  through my life like my bewilderment at it. We’re forced to […]

Juan Cole

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