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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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Biodiversity
The Forgotten Amazon: As a Critical Summit Nears, Politicians must Work Against Deforestation in Bolivia’s Amazon

The Forgotten Amazon: As a Critical Summit Nears, Politicians must Work Against Deforestation in Bolivia’s Amazon

By Victor Galaz, Stockholm University | – When asked to situate the world’s most iconic rainforest on a map, most people will pinpoint Brazil. And […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Germany on Track to 3 new Gigawatts of Onshore Wind this Year as Expansion Accelerates

Germany on Track to 3 new Gigawatts of Onshore Wind this Year as Expansion Accelerates

By Benjamin Wehrmann | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – The speed of Germany’s onshore wind power expansion is accelerating, but it is still […]

Benjamin Wehrmann

Egypt
The Existential Crisis of the Muslim Brotherhood

The Existential Crisis of the Muslim Brotherhood

Review of Abdelrahman Ayyash, Amr ElAfifi, and Noha Ezzat, Broken Bonds: The Existential Crisis of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, 2013-22 (Washington, DC: The Century Foundation, 2023). […]

Marc Martorell Junyent

Archaeology
416,000 Years Ago, All Greenland's Ice Melted and Raised Sea Levels 5-20 Feet: A Warning from the Past

416,000 Years Ago, All Greenland’s Ice Melted and Raised Sea Levels 5-20 Feet: A Warning from the Past

By Paul Bierman, University of Vermont, and Tammy Rittenour, Utah State University | – About 400,000 years ago, large parts of Greenland were ice-free. Scrubby […]

The Conversation

Congress
The Orwellian US Congressional Ministry of Truth just denied Israeli Apartheid toward Palestinians

The Orwellian US Congressional Ministry of Truth just denied Israeli Apartheid toward Palestinians

Nasim Ahmed Nasimbythedocks   ( Middle East Monitor ) – The two major political parties in the US have waded into the debate about whether […]

Middle East Monitor

Displaced and Refugees
Migration and the Shadow of War: How the Real Story of a Migrant Boat Disaster Escaped our Attention

Migration and the Shadow of War: How the Real Story of a Migrant Boat Disaster Escaped our Attention

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Seeking news coverage about the Adriana, the boat crowded with some 700 people migrating to Europe to seek a better life […]

Andrea Mazzarino

Africa
Hey Jason Aldean:  All Humans owe their Big Brains and Survival as a Species to Afro-Textured Hair

Hey Jason Aldean: All Humans owe their Big Brains and Survival as a Species to Afro-Textured Hair

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Afro-textured hair has been a frequent object of racist denigration. In April 2007 radio shock jock Don Imus got himself […]

Juan Cole

Arab World
Middle East and North Africa: End Curbs on Women's Mobility (HRW)

Middle East and North Africa: End Curbs on Women’s Mobility (HRW)

Many Middle East and North Africa countries still prevent women from moving freely in their own country or traveling abroad without the permission of a […]

Human Rights Watch

Constitution
Here’s What we Know about the Charges against those Who Falsely Claimed to be Michigan Presidential Electors in 2020

Here’s What we Know about the Charges against those Who Falsely Claimed to be Michigan Presidential Electors in 2020

By: Kyle Davidson – J   ( Michigan Advance ) – After Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced charges Tuesday against 16 Michigan residents tied […]

Michigan Advance

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