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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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Is Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Spying on Most Americans?

Is Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Spying on Most Americans?

By Farrah Hassen | – ( Otherwords.org ) – Growing up in the Southern California suburbs, government surveillance never worried me. But my Syrian-American parents […]

OtherWords

Agriculture
5 technologies that will help make the food system carbon neutral

5 technologies that will help make the food system carbon neutral

By Rene Van Acker, University of Guelph; Evan Fraser, University of Guelph; and Lenore Newman, University of The Fraser Valley | – Globally, about one-third […]

The Conversation

Belgium
Dumping Russian Gas: 4 European countries seek 65 GW Offshore Wind by 2030, as EU Pledges $314 bn. for Green Energy

Dumping Russian Gas: 4 European countries seek 65 GW Offshore Wind by 2030, as EU Pledges $314 bn. for Green Energy

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Anyone who follows the climate emergency and extreme weather events would think the serial catastrophes of the past couple years […]

Juan Cole

African-Americans
Republican Mainstreaming of White Supremacy Fuels Extremist Violence like the Racist Massacre in Buffalo

Republican Mainstreaming of White Supremacy Fuels Extremist Violence like the Racist Massacre in Buffalo

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – “All race politics is bad, all race politics is poison — it erases people, it dehumanizes them. Race politics […]

Dan Dinello

Climate Crisis
Climate Emergency: 2022 Drought in Western US the Harbinger of a hotter, thirstier Atmosphere

Climate Emergency: 2022 Drought in Western US the Harbinger of a hotter, thirstier Atmosphere

By Imtiaz Rangwala, University of Colorado Boulder | – Much of the western U.S. has been in the grip of an unrelenting drought since early […]

The Conversation

Feminism
Where Are the Men?   No More Bystander Boys in the Post-Roe Era

Where Are the Men? No More Bystander Boys in the Post-Roe Era

By Robert Lipsyte | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – For 50 years now, people have told desperate, heart-breaking stories about what it was like to […]

Tomdispatch

Bush
George W. Bush denounces "the decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of  Iraq -- I mean, Ukraine"

George W. Bush denounces “the decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq — I mean, Ukraine”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Michael Williams at the Dallas Morning News reports on George W. Bush’s speech at his presidential center at Southern Methodist […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israel-Palestine: Supreme Injustice and Counting the Omer

Israel-Palestine: Supreme Injustice and Counting the Omer

( Traveling Twins ) – As we celebrate the annual Lag BaOmer pilgrimage to Mount Meron in Israel this week– the 33rd day of the […]

Abigail Leibowitz

Democracy
Lebanese Election sees significant Gains for independent non-sectarian Politicians

Lebanese Election sees significant Gains for independent non-sectarian Politicians

By John Nagle, Queen’s University Belfast and Tamirace Fakhoury, Aalborg University | – Lebanese voters are signalling a desire for change, with Hezbollah and its […]

The Conversation

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