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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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A Tale of Two Sets of Dead Babies: The Preemies of Gaza and Imaginary Beheadings

A Tale of Two Sets of Dead Babies: The Preemies of Gaza and Imaginary Beheadings

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israel’s repeated shelling in the vicinity of hospitals and clinics in Gaza has led 20 of 38 hospitals to close […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Gaza:  Where should the Birds fly after the Last Sky?

Gaza: Where should the Birds fly after the Last Sky?

By Ahmad Rayees | – Where should the birds fly after the last sky? Where should we go after the last sky?  ( Middle East […]

Middle East Monitor

Iraq
Victims of War are more than just a Statistic

Victims of War are more than just a Statistic

By Ibrahim Al-Marashi | ( San Francisco Chronicle ) – If someone had asked the students at my Monterey high school which one of us […]

Ibrahim Al-Marashi

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Israel's War on Gaza's Hospitals and Patients: al-Shifa Bombed again, as 20 of 36 Hospitals Go Dark

Israel’s War on Gaza’s Hospitals and Patients: al-Shifa Bombed again, as 20 of 36 Hospitals Go Dark

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Update: Reuters reports that Al-Shifa hospital complex has been forced to cease operations after its final remaining generator was hit […]

Juan Cole

Nonviolence
Why we Need Armistice Day Back: Remembering the Horrors of War

Why we Need Armistice Day Back: Remembering the Horrors of War

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment) – November 11 – at the “11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month” – marks 105 […]

H. Patricia Hynes

Israel/ Palestine
Why so Many Jews Denounce Israel’s War on Gaza

Why so Many Jews Denounce Israel’s War on Gaza

By Yakov M. Rabkin ( Pressenza ) – A profound division exists between Zionist advocates of Israel on the one hand, and both secular and […]

Yakov M. Rabkin

Anti-intellectualism
Statement of Juan Cole, Director of the program in Arab and Muslim American Studies in the American Culture Department at the University of Michigan

Statement of Juan Cole, Director of the program in Arab and Muslim American Studies in the American Culture Department at the University of Michigan

I write in awareness that the ongoing, painful events in the Middle East are putting an enormous emotional burden on the faculty, staff and students […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Human-Caused Climate Change cost US $67 bn., Produced Hottest 12 Months for 125,000 years

Human-Caused Climate Change cost US $67 bn., Produced Hottest 12 Months for 125,000 years

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The non-profit collective of high-powered scientists, Climate Central, has released a new report demonstrating that the past 12 months have […]

Juan Cole

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Israel's Bombing is killing a Journalist a Day: This has to Stop

Israel’s Bombing is killing a Journalist a Day: This has to Stop

By Peter Greste, The University of Queensland | – According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, the Gaza-Israel war has been the deadliest conflict for […]

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