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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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As NYT's Friedman Laments end of Israel-Palestine Two-State Solution, the Bantustan Alternative Looms

As NYT’s Friedman Laments end of Israel-Palestine Two-State Solution, the Bantustan Alternative Looms

Montreal (Special to Informed Comment) – In a New York Times Dec. 18, 2022, opinion piece,  Thomas L. Friedman, echoing many other mainstream commentators, bemoans that […]

Jeffrey Rudolph

Authoritarianism
How Female Iranian Activists use powerful Images to Protest oppressive Policies

How Female Iranian Activists use powerful Images to Protest oppressive Policies

By Parichehr Kazemi, PhD Candidate, University of Oregon | – (The Conversation) – Images of unveiled Iranian women and adolescent girls standing atop police cars […]

The Conversation

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Lessons Learned in the Internet’s Darkest Corners

Lessons Learned in the Internet’s Darkest Corners

( Tomdispatch.com ) – We all do it. Make little snap judgments about everyday strangers as we go about our lives. Without giving it a […]

Tomdispatch

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If the US Aim in Helping Ukraine is a Rules-Based International Order it must Condemn Israeli Annexation of Syria's Golan and Occupation of Palestine

If the US Aim in Helping Ukraine is a Rules-Based International Order it must Condemn Israeli Annexation of Syria’s Golan and Occupation of Palestine

Zelensky Ukraine War Syria Israel Golan Occupation International Law

Juan Cole

Iran
Iran: Brutal Repression in Kurdistan Capital  (HRW)

Iran: Brutal Repression in Kurdistan Capital (HRW)

Human Rights Watch – (Beirut) – Iranian security forces used excessive and unlawful lethal force against protesters in Kurdistan province’s capital, Sanandaj, in October and […]

Human Rights Watch

Iran
Cartoonist Kianoush Ramazani: Hope in Iran during Turbulent Times

Cartoonist Kianoush Ramazani: Hope in Iran during Turbulent Times

By Mariam A. ( Globalvoices.org ) – Three months have passed since Mahsa Amini was murdered by Iran’s morality police for violating the country’s strict […]

Global Voices

Arab World
Soccer Champion Lionel Messi’s Black Cloak: a brief History of the Honorary Bisht

Soccer Champion Lionel Messi’s Black Cloak: a brief History of the Honorary Bisht

By Pardis Mahdavi, The University of Montana | – Shortly before Lionel Messi took to the stage to lift up the World Cup trophy, Qatari […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
New Solar installations Rocket up by 50% in Europe in 2022, amid Ukraine War Energy Crisis

New Solar installations Rocket up by 50% in Europe in 2022, amid Ukraine War Energy Crisis

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The industry think tank SolarPower Europe has concluded that new solar power installations rocketed up in Europe by nearly 50% […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Why the Fight over defining Antisemitism is Key to the Future of BDS

Why the Fight over defining Antisemitism is Key to the Future of BDS

By Shane Burley | – ( Waging Nonviolence) – Despite conservatives in America feigning their undying support for “free speech,” those convictions often vanish when […]

Waging Nonviolence

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