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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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Dear Rev. Graham: Obama was not born a Muslim and neither is anyone else

Dear Rev. Graham: Obama was not born a Muslim and neither is anyone else

Evangelist (and hateful bigot) Franklin Graham said this weekend that President Obama was ‘born a Muslim’ because, he said, Islam is transmitted through the father […]

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Pakistan
Sindh Cities inundated as Flooding continues; <br/> Fears of advances by al-Qaeda

Sindh Cities inundated as Flooding continues;
Fears of advances by al-Qaeda

Frenetic efforts to repair a 20 foot breach in the barrage guarding the major Sindhi city of Shahdadkot succeeded in keeping the city from being […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Taliban Ambush Kills 30 on Road Crew in Helmand; <br/> 60% of Americans Oppose Afghan War

Taliban Ambush Kills 30 on Road Crew in Helmand;
60% of Americans Oppose Afghan War

Word is trickling out now about a Taliban attack on workers and security guards that killed some 30 persons and wounded 15 others, while yet […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Cole on PBS ‘Need to Know’

Cole on PBS ‘Need to Know’

I’ll be interviewed by Alison Stewart on the PBS ‘Need to Know’ current affairs program on Friday evening in most markets, though the show may […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Iraqis differ in Reactions to US Combat Troops' Departure

Iraqis differ in Reactions to US Combat Troops’ Departure

Aswat al-Iraq reports on reactions to the withdrawal of US combat brigades from Iraq in the southern Iraqi city of Basra. The head of the […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Last US Combat Units withdraw from Iraq

Last US Combat Units withdraw from Iraq

The last US combat convoy left Iraq on Thursday, rather some time after George W. Bush declared an end to combat operations in Iraq in […]

Juan Cole

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Bolton was Contradicted by Bush on Iran’s Bushehr Reactor

Bolton was Contradicted by Bush on Iran’s Bushehr Reactor

Former US ambassador and perennial angry old crank John Bolton is so upset about the possibility that Iran’s Bushehr nuclear reactor will soon go live […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
59 Dead, 120 Wounded in Iraqi Suicide Bombing; <br/>Iraqi Parties reject US Power Sharing Proposal

59 Dead, 120 Wounded in Iraqi Suicide Bombing;
Iraqi Parties reject US Power Sharing Proposal

The Telegraph reports that 59 persons are dead and 120 wounded in a suicide bombing attack on potential army recruits in Baghdad. There may have […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Top Ways Dan Senor Could have avoided offending Iraqi Muslims

Top Ways Dan Senor Could have avoided offending Iraqi Muslims

Former Bush administration spokesman in Iraq Dan Senor is against the building of a Sufi Muslim community center in lower Manhattan. He says he is […]

Juan Cole

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