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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: […]

Clear Conclusions: A UN Commission finds Israel Responsible for Genocide in Gaza

Clear Conclusions: A UN Commission finds Israel Responsible for Genocide in Gaza

09/21/2025 By Binoy Kampmark

Ghosts of E. Germany’s Stasi: How technology is used to supercharge Monitoring and Control

Ghosts of E. Germany’s Stasi: How technology is used to supercharge Monitoring and Control

09/21/2025 By Global Voices

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Climate Crisis
Humanity put out more C02 than Ever Before last Year, but Green Energy Kept the Annual Increase Small

Humanity put out more C02 than Ever Before last Year, but Green Energy Kept the Annual Increase Small

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – This is a bad news, good news story. Cathy Bussewitz at the Associated Press reports that carbon dioxide emissions reached […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Silent no more: Criticism of the state's inadequate earthquake response reaches football stadiums in Turkey

Silent no more: Criticism of the state’s inadequate earthquake response reaches football stadiums in Turkey

Fans also called for the ruling AKP government to resign Written byArzu Geybullayeva   Screenshot from Besiktas football club’s official YouTube channel video of the […]

Arzu Geybullayeva

Displaced and Refugees
Race and Erasure:  Why don’t Syrian and Palestinian Refugees get treated like Ukrainians?

Race and Erasure: Why don’t Syrian and Palestinian Refugees get treated like Ukrainians?

By Ritesh Shah, University of Auckland | – (The Conversation) – With the war in Ukraine now in its second year, nearly a third of […]

The Conversation

China
At the Brink of War in the Pacific?  The Nightmare of Great Power Rivalry Over Taiwan

At the Brink of War in the Pacific? The Nightmare of Great Power Rivalry Over Taiwan

( Tomdispatch.com ) – While the world has been distracted, even amused, by the diplomatic tussle around China’s recent high-altitude balloon flights across North America, […]

Alfred W. McCoy

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Israel's Ahmadinejad: Smotrich calls for Palestinian Town to be Wiped off the Map

Israel’s Ahmadinejad: Smotrich calls for Palestinian Town to be Wiped off the Map

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli minister of finance, Bezalel Smotrich, who is also the civil administrator of the Palestinian West Bank in the […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli PM Netanyahu's idea of workable Peace excludes Palestinian Independence

Israeli PM Netanyahu’s idea of workable Peace excludes Palestinian Independence

By Mohammad Makram Balawi | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Benjamin Netanyahu has always been an open book. Although the Israeli prime minister […]

Middle East Monitor

Antarctica
The Antarctic Ice Sheet is Melting. And this is bad News for Humanity

The Antarctic Ice Sheet is Melting. And this is bad News for Humanity

By Marta Moreno Ibáñez, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | – (The Conversation) – Ottawa’s famous Rideau Canal, which turns into the world’s largest […]

The Conversation

Health
Mysterious Wave Of Sickness Hits Iranian Schoolgirls, Amid Speculation Over Gov’t Poisoning

Mysterious Wave Of Sickness Hits Iranian Schoolgirls, Amid Speculation Over Gov’t Poisoning

A spate of illnesses in schools in the Iranian city of Qom has prompted public anger, with some accusing the government of negligence.    ( […]

Golnaz Esfandiari

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Violence will continue in the Mideast as Long as the US runs interference for Israeli Squatting and its Pogroms against Palestinians

Violence will continue in the Mideast as Long as the US runs interference for Israeli Squatting and its Pogroms against Palestinians

Belfast (Special to Informed Comment) – I was horrified to watch the February 22 Israeli army assault on Nablus where I was born. I grew […]

Mohammed Samaana

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