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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

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Haleh In Prison I Copied Here Last

Haleh In Prison I Copied Here Last

Haleh in Prison I copied here last Saturday our MESA letter of protest about the Iranian government’s imprisonment of Iranian-American scholar Haleh Esfandiari [also spelled […]

Juan Cole

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Annual Blogads Survey Many Thanks To

Annual Blogads Survey Many Thanks To

Annual Blogads Survey Many thanks to readers willing to take the blogads survey. I’m told it isn’t time-consuming. Although I would be blogging anyway, I […]

Juan Cole

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Oil Sabotage Is As Bad As Ever

Oil Sabotage Is As Bad As Ever

Oil Sabotage is “As Bad as Ever”: Shahristani 60 Dead in violence In an interview with Patrick Cockburn of the Independent, Iraq’s Oil Minister, Hussein […]

Juan Cole

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Chatham House Study On Iraq

Chatham House Study On Iraq

Chatham House Study on Iraq Fragmentation Gareth Stansfield of Exeter University has written a position paper for Chatham House in the UK, spelling out how […]

Juan Cole

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World Bank Reaction To Wolfowitz

World Bank Reaction To Wolfowitz

Ding, Dong, the Witz has Fled The reaction among World Bank employees at the news that Paul Wolfowitz, their president, will resign on June 30: […]

Juan Cole

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Bush Admits To Destroying Blairs Career

Bush Admits To Destroying Blairs Career

Bush Admits to Destroying Blair’s Career I just caught some of the Bush/Blair news conference on the adult version of CNN at noon. At one […]

Juan Cole

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Template I Give Up

Template I Give Up

Template I give up. The new templates I tried just weren’t working for large numbers of readers. In particular, webtv and palm users complained. For […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
200 Guerrillas Attack Mosul Police

200 Guerrillas Attack Mosul Police

200 Guerrillas Attack Mosul Police Truck Bombing Kills 45 (Chlorine?} Zebari rejects Pakistani Troops I don’t know if it was all hell, but a good […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Brief History Of Islamic State Of Iraq

Brief History Of Islamic State Of Iraq

A Brief History of the Islamic State of Iraq The USG Open Source Center translates a history of the Islamic State of Iraq posted to […]

Juan Cole

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