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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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Authoritarianism
Women are the Victors in Iranian Officials' Trial Balloon on Abolishing the Morals Police

Women are the Victors in Iranian Officials’ Trial Balloon on Abolishing the Morals Police

By Farhang Jahanpour | – Oxford (Special to Informed Comment) – Various Iranian and foreign news agencies have reported that Iran’s Prosecutor General has announced […]

Farhang Jahanpour

Climate Crisis
If we Want to Limit Global Heating, the World Can’t go on Spending $10 Trillion a year on Energy

If we Want to Limit Global Heating, the World Can’t go on Spending $10 Trillion a year on Energy

By Stephen Peake, The Open University | – The world’s energy bill for 2022 is set to be the highest ever, topping US$10 trillion (£8.3 […]

The Conversation

Displaced and Refugees
Unequal Mercy: The West’s Approach to Refugees

Unequal Mercy: The West’s Approach to Refugees

By Helen Benedict | – (Tomdispatch.com) – Almost anyone would agree that war is horrifying and peaceful countries should do their best to help its […]

Tomdispatch

Climate Crisis
52% of S. Dakota’s Electricity comes from Wind Power and other Green Energy Triumphs even in Red States

52% of S. Dakota’s Electricity comes from Wind Power and other Green Energy Triumphs even in Red States

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – About 10% of the electricity generated in the US comes from wind installations. It isn’t nearly enough, either to fight […]

Juan Cole

Carbon Footprint
G20 still paying Billions in Fossil Fuel Subsidies

G20 still paying Billions in Fossil Fuel Subsidies

By Catherine Early | – ( China Dialogue) – The Group of 20 is an intergovernmental forum of 19 countries and the European Union. These […]

China Dialogue

Russia
Historical Reasons that Turkey is the pivot point between Russia and the US on Ukraine War

Historical Reasons that Turkey is the pivot point between Russia and the US on Ukraine War

By Georgios Giannakopoulos, City, University of London | – (The Conversation) – The war in Ukraine has put Turkey into the geopolitical spotlight. One of […]

The Conversation

Internet
In Turkey, Social Media Platforms become Complicit in censoring Media and Freedom of Speech

In Turkey, Social Media Platforms become Complicit in censoring Media and Freedom of Speech

By Arzu Geybullayeva | – ( Global Voices ) – Metin Cihan is a Turkish journalist who has long been engaged in exposing corruption among […]

Global Voices

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Israel: Defying Biden, Netanyahu allows extremist Religious Zionists to rule over West Bank Palestinians

Israel: Defying Biden, Netanyahu allows extremist Religious Zionists to rule over West Bank Palestinians

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that that Binyamin Netanyahu’s far right Likud Party concluded a coalition agreement with the […]

Juan Cole

Inequality
We Can’t Afford NOT to Have a Wealth Tax

We Can’t Afford NOT to Have a Wealth Tax

By Jack Metzgar | – ( Inequality.org) – Every time I hear that we as a nation cannot afford something — whether that might be […]

Inequality.org

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