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With its Togg EV, Turkiye emerges as 4th Biggest European Electric Car Market
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With its Togg EV, Turkiye emerges as 4th Biggest European Electric Car Market

Juan Cole

44% of the new car market in Turkiye is now battery electric or plug-in hybrid! That is more than California

Algorithms and AI have turned Gaza into a Laboratory of Death

Algorithms and AI have turned Gaza into a Laboratory of Death

02/18/2026 By Middle East Monitor

The Apocalyptic President: The Personification of an Imperial Power (and Planet) in Decline

The Apocalyptic President: The Personification of an Imperial Power (and Planet) in Decline

02/18/2026 By Tom Engelhardt

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Climate Crisis
How China will Run Rings around Trump’s US on Lucrative Green Energy in 2026

How China will Run Rings around Trump’s US on Lucrative Green Energy in 2026

China exported over $200 billion in clean energy technologies to other countries in 2025, increasing their adoption around the world

Yale Climate Connections

Arab Spring
On the Anniversary of Iran’s Revolution: Key Lessons for Revolutionaries

On the Anniversary of Iran’s Revolution: Key Lessons for Revolutionaries

Many people optimistically assume that popular revolutions against dictators will automatically establish democratic governments

Farhang Jahanpour

Omar Khayyam
“Gently, Brother!”  FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:36

“Gently, Brother!” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:36

That clay, and the things made of clay , bear traces of past people who died and became clay is a common theme in classical Persian poetry

Juan Cole

China
The new Axis of Resistance: Sino-Russian technological Enhancement of Iran’s Endurance

The new Axis of Resistance: Sino-Russian technological Enhancement of Iran’s Endurance

The most significant development has been the deployment of China’s YLC-8B 3D long-range surveillance radar.

Middle East Monitor

Donald Trump
On Seeking Asylum and Refuge in a Hostile Trumpian United States

On Seeking Asylum and Refuge in a Hostile Trumpian United States

The administration has also made legal entry to the U.S. much more difficult in a variety of ways

Rebecca Gordon

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Bad Bunny at the Superbowl: Puerto Ricans are Americans, but the US is Guilty of Neglect

Bad Bunny at the Superbowl: Puerto Ricans are Americans, but the US is Guilty of Neglect

Puerto Ricans are subject to taxation without representation, which is against everything the Constitution otherwise stands for

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israel’s Extermination, Ethnic Cleansing  against Palestinians Escalate

Israel’s Extermination, Ethnic Cleansing against Palestinians Escalate

Atrocities Against Palestinians with Impunity Challenge Rules-Based International Order

Human Rights Watch

Dissent
Fifteen years after Egypt’s uprising, how Faith and Politics reshaped a Generation

Fifteen years after Egypt’s uprising, how Faith and Politics reshaped a Generation

The revolution and its social and political freedoms offered them a space to question everything, including how they relate to Islamic teachings

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Massive Morocco Rainstorms, Flooding: “Passing from a stable Climate System”

Massive Morocco Rainstorms, Flooding: “Passing from a stable Climate System”

Gemenne said that we are passing from a relatively stable climate system to an unstable one, where extreme weather events will multiply

Juan Cole

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