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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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The New McCarthyism and the (True) One-Party State in America

The New McCarthyism and the (True) One-Party State in America

Note for TomDispatch Readers: I hate to bother you when you were so wonderful in helping keep this website afloat with contributions as last year […]

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Russia announces its suspension from last Nuclear Arms Agreement with the US, escalating Nuclear Tension

Russia announces its suspension from last Nuclear Arms Agreement with the US, escalating Nuclear Tension

By Nina Srinivasan Rathbun, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences | – (The Conversation) – After decades of progress on limiting the buildup […]

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Bernie Sanders
Sen. Bernie Sanders, "Embarrassed" by "racist" Israeli Government, Threatens to Withhold Aid

Sen. Bernie Sanders, “Embarrassed” by “racist” Israeli Government, Threatens to Withhold Aid

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) came on Face the Nation Sunday. In the course of the interview, Sanders lashed out at […]

Juan Cole

China
China Dominates Solar and Wind Energy:  Can the U.S. and Europe Finally Catch Up?

China Dominates Solar and Wind Energy: Can the U.S. and Europe Finally Catch Up?

By Michael Jacobs, University of Sheffield | – Climate change policy has entered a new era. The growing row between the United States and the […]

The Conversation

Displaced and Refugees
Amid Massive Natural Disaster, Turkey’s Erdogan Wields Censorship and Prepares for Dicey Polls

Amid Massive Natural Disaster, Turkey’s Erdogan Wields Censorship and Prepares for Dicey Polls

Written byCivic Media Observatory   This story is part of Undertones, Global Voices’ Civic Media Observatory‘s newsletter. It features a summary of a year-long research on […]

Global Voices

African-Americans
Is the new AP African American Studies course Dangerous? Students don’t think so

Is the new AP African American Studies course Dangerous? Students don’t think so

Naseem Rakha   Maurice Cowley is teaching college-level African American Studies at McDaniel High School.   ( Oregon Capital Chronicle ) – Three days after […]

Oregon Capital Chronicle

Democratic Party
Jimmy Carter's Greatest Triumph:  Guinea Worm on Verge of Extinction, with only 13 Cases in 2022

Jimmy Carter’s Greatest Triumph: Guinea Worm on Verge of Extinction, with only 13 Cases in 2022

Former President Jimmy Carter’s family has announced that he is undergoing hospice care at home, a sign of his imminent passing. In his honor, I […]

Juan Cole

European Union
Ukraine war has exposed the Folly – and unintended Consequences – of ‘Armed Missionaries’

Ukraine war has exposed the Folly – and unintended Consequences – of ‘Armed Missionaries’

By Ronald Suny, University of Michigan | – ( The Conversation) – The evening before Russia invaded Ukraine, it seemed to many observers – me […]

Ronald Suny

Far Right
Saudi-owned LIV Golf "Sportswashes" Rights Abuses

Saudi-owned LIV Golf “Sportswashes” Rights Abuses

By Leila Saad, Research Assistant | – ( Human Rights Watch ) – Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund is attempting to “sportswash” the country’s egregious […]

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