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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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Climate Crisis
Iran’s Environmental Standards, Polluted Reality Mix Like Oil And Water

Iran’s Environmental Standards, Polluted Reality Mix Like Oil And Water

By Michael Scollon ( RFE/RL) – National Clean Air Day was not a cause for celebration this year in Tehran, where many residents were shuttered […]

Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

National Security State
Are the Best Years of My Country Behind Me?   Reflections on a Long-Ago Tour of Los Alamos and the Trinity Atomic Test Site

Are the Best Years of My Country Behind Me? Reflections on a Long-Ago Tour of Los Alamos and the Trinity Atomic Test Site

( Tomdispatch.com) – I turn 60 this year. My health is generally good, though I have aches and pains from a form of arthritis. I’m […]

William J. Astore

Algeria
A Final Burial for the Arab Spring: Arab League Readmits Syria under al-Assad, as Tensions with Iran Subside

A Final Burial for the Arab Spring: Arab League Readmits Syria under al-Assad, as Tensions with Iran Subside

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The foreign ministers of the Arab League states, meeting in Cairo on Sunday, approved the end of Syria’s suspension from […]

Juan Cole

Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders unveils push for $17-an-hour federal minimum wage, citing state increases

Bernie Sanders unveils push for $17-an-hour federal minimum wage, citing state increases

By Ariana Figueroa   ( Florida Phoenix ) WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday announced Democrats’ plans to mark up legislation to increase […]

Florida Phoenix

Haredim
Israel is a powder keg waiting to blow

Israel is a powder keg waiting to blow

By James Sunderland, University of Oxford | – The death in custody on May 2 of Khader Adnan, the first Palestinian to die of a […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Iraq Gas Flaring Tied to Cancer Surge

Iraq Gas Flaring Tied to Cancer Surge

Antonia Juhasz Senior Researcher, Environment and Human Rights   @AntoniaJuhasz ( Human Rights Watch) – Ali Hussein Jaloud, an Iraqi man barely in his 20s, […]

Human Rights Watch

Climate Crisis
Sir Gawain and the Green King: What can Newly Crowned Charles III do to Combat the Climate Emergency?

Sir Gawain and the Green King: What can Newly Crowned Charles III do to Combat the Climate Emergency?

Revised Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – We can argue about the character of Charles’s philosophy of nature and whether it is conservative or not. I […]

Juan Cole

Corruption
Not the Onion:  U.S. Supreme Court Justices take Gifts –  Then Raise the Bar for Bribery Prosecutions

Not the Onion: U.S. Supreme Court Justices take Gifts – Then Raise the Bar for Bribery Prosecutions

By: Marty Schladen – ( Minnesota Reformer) – Justice Clarence Thomas might be the most egregious when it comes to taking gifts and not disclosing […]

Minnesota Reformer

Immigration
Not a Flood, not a Surge, not Illegal:  Retire This Dehumanizing Language About Immigrants

Not a Flood, not a Surge, not Illegal: Retire This Dehumanizing Language About Immigrants

By By Daniella Prieshoff ( Otherwords.org ) – Last year, my client Susan called me to discuss her immigration case. During our conversation she referenced […]

OtherWords

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