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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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Supreme Court Expands Government Secrecy Powers in Torture-Related Case

Supreme Court Expands Government Secrecy Powers in Torture-Related Case

By Robert Pallitto | – (Foreign Policy in Focus ) – The U.S. government doesn’t want to acknowledge a Polish torture site that everyone knows […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

Afghanistan
War as Terrorism:  Conflicts We Can’t Win, Suffering We Don’t See

War as Terrorism: Conflicts We Can’t Win, Suffering We Don’t See

( Tomdispatch.com) – Anyone who grew up in my generation of 1980s kids remembers G.I. Joe action figures — those green-uniformed plastic soldiers you could […]

Andrea Mazzarino

Jewish History
Shavuot: A Jewish holiday of renewing commitment to God

Shavuot: A Jewish holiday of renewing commitment to God

By Alan Avery-Peck, College of the Holy Cross | – The festival of Shavuot, marked this year on June 5 and 6, celebrates the biblical […]

The Conversation

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Shouting "Death to Arabs," Far Right Israeli Squatters Storm Palestinian Holy Sites, Towns and Schools

Shouting “Death to Arabs,” Far Right Israeli Squatters Storm Palestinian Holy Sites, Towns and Schools

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that hundreds of Israeli squatters on Palestinian land organized taunting processions “of the flag” […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
The Death of a Thousand Cuts: This is how Israel is illegally Annexing the Palestinian West Bank

The Death of a Thousand Cuts: This is how Israel is illegally Annexing the Palestinian West Bank

(Middle East Monitor ) – Israel’s Supreme Court has decided that the Palestinian region of Masafer Yatta in the southern hills of Hebron is to […]

Ramzy Baroud

Climate Crisis
Stubborn US, UK Oil Investments Expose Corporations, Investors to $1.7 Trillion in Stranded Assets

Stubborn US, UK Oil Investments Expose Corporations, Investors to $1.7 Trillion in Stranded Assets

By Laureen Fagan | – ( Sustainability Times ) – Universities, governments, faith groups and others are changing their investment policies to better align with […]

Sustainability Times

European Union
If Western Countries demand that Russia follow International Law, Why don't They Themselves?

If Western Countries demand that Russia follow International Law, Why don’t They Themselves?

By Amyn Sajoo, Simon Fraser University | – With a passion that recalls the aftermath of the Second World War, politicians and commentators are demanding […]

The Conversation

Bashar al-Assad
On Memorial Day, let's get the 900 US Troops out of Syria and away from any War with Russia or Iran

On Memorial Day, let’s get the 900 US Troops out of Syria and away from any War with Russia or Iran

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Memorial Day or Decoration Day (referring to the decoration of the graves of soldiers killed in combat) began after the […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Oil Profiteering: High Gas Prices, Climate Change, and the War in Ukraine share a Common Cause

Oil Profiteering: High Gas Prices, Climate Change, and the War in Ukraine share a Common Cause

By Lindsay Owens and Hebah Kassem | – ( Afterwords.org) – Amid the ongoing atrocities in Ukraine, rising gas prices, and the existential threat of […]

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