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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

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Could Marjorie Taylor Greene's "Satan's Controlling" the Catholic Church Stance Break up the Republican Party?

Could Marjorie Taylor Greene’s “Satan’s Controlling” the Catholic Church Stance Break up the Republican Party?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In an interview with a far-right Roman Catholic pundit, conspiracy theorist and extremist white nationalist Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) […]

Juan Cole

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Muslims and the War on Terror: Two-Plus Decades of ‘Othering’

Muslims and the War on Terror: Two-Plus Decades of ‘Othering’

By Anoa J. Changa | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus) – The phrase “War on Terror” invokes many different feelings and images depending upon […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

Israel/ Palestine
Confiscating Palestinian Land for a Horse Farm:  Israel’s Separation Barrier Restricts Livelihoods in the Occupied West Bank

Confiscating Palestinian Land for a Horse Farm: Israel’s Separation Barrier Restricts Livelihoods in the Occupied West Bank

By Eric Goldstein, Deputy Director, Middle East and North Africa Division | – ( Human Rights Watch) – On April 14, 2002, Israel’s cabinet approved […]

Human Rights Watch

Authoritarianism
How Big Oil fuels both Rising Authoritarianism and worsening Climate Crisis

How Big Oil fuels both Rising Authoritarianism and worsening Climate Crisis

By Eve Darian-Smith, University of California, Irvine | – Around the world, many countries are becoming less democratic. This backsliding on democracy and “creeping authoritarianism,” […]

The Conversation

Australia
Biggest Solar-and-Battery Installation in World, at Darwin, Australia, to Power Singapore 3,000 miles Away

Biggest Solar-and-Battery Installation in World, at Darwin, Australia, to Power Singapore 3,000 miles Away

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Moving the world to renewable energy can’t be done purely on the basis of the nation-state. The challenge of the […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Azmi Bishara, “Palestine: Matters of Truth and Justice” –  Review

Azmi Bishara, “Palestine: Matters of Truth and Justice” – Review

Tübingen (Special to Informed Comment) – Book Review – Azmi Bishara, Palestine: Matters of Truth and Justice. London: Hurst and Co., 2022. 2021 saw Benjamin […]

Marc Martorell Junyent

Food Insecurity
A year of Hunger: How the Russia-Ukraine War is worsening climate-linked Food Crises

A year of Hunger: How the Russia-Ukraine War is worsening climate-linked Food Crises

By Ro McFarlane, University of Canberra; Nenad Naumovski, University of Canberra; and Shawn Somerset, University of Canberra | – Global wheat prices have soared since […]

The Conversation

Pentagon
Bodies beyond Bucha:  The Civilian Deaths You Haven’t Heard About

Bodies beyond Bucha: The Civilian Deaths You Haven’t Heard About

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Madogaz Musa Abdullah still remembers the phone call. But what came next was a blur. He drove for hours, deep into […]

Nick Turse

censorship
Disney Targeted on Gay Rights by both DeSantis' Christian Taliban and Saudi Muslim Obscurantism

Disney Targeted on Gay Rights by both DeSantis’ Christian Taliban and Saudi Muslim Obscurantism

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Florida Governor Ron DeSantis notoriously just came after the Walt Disney Co. for its opposition, if belated, to his “don’t […]

Juan Cole

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