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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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If Putinism is victorious in Ukraine, it will set a horrific Precedent

If Putinism is victorious in Ukraine, it will set a horrific Precedent

By John Feffer | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – War has been pretty much a constant in human affairs. If you’ve managed […]

John Feffer

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Ukraine war pushes German homeowners' demand for rooftop Solar, Batteries, in bid for Independence

Ukraine war pushes German homeowners’ demand for rooftop Solar, Batteries, in bid for Independence

By Paul Gordon | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – The war in Ukraine and the associated energy crisis are pushing homeowners in record […]

Clean Energy Wire

Authoritarianism
Iran Must Release Prominent Anthropologist Fariba Adelkhah (MESA)

Iran Must Release Prominent Anthropologist Fariba Adelkhah (MESA)

Committee on Academic Freedom, Middle East Studies Association | – Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran Chief Justice Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje’i, […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

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Gigi Hadid’s Palestine Pledge and ‘Anti-Palestinianism’: The Great Vogue Controversy

Gigi Hadid’s Palestine Pledge and ‘Anti-Palestinianism’: The Great Vogue Controversy

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Arab News reports that Vogue did an instagram posting about model Gigi Hadid’s pledge to donate her fall earnings […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Revolution and Exile:  A Poignant New Memoir of Iran

Revolution and Exile: A Poignant New Memoir of Iran

Review by Fariba Amini. Neda Toloui-Semnani, They Said They Wanted Revolution: A Memoir of my Parents, New York: Little A, 2022. Newark, Delaware (Special to […]

Fariba Amini

Israel/ Palestine
While world focuses on plight of Ukraine's children, endless trauma of Gaza's children should not be ignored

While world focuses on plight of Ukraine’s children, endless trauma of Gaza’s children should not be ignored

( Jordan Times ) – More than two million refugees have fled Ukraine since Russia invaded that country. The majority have been women and children […]

Michael Jansen

China
The New Eurasian Wars on our Endangered Planet

The New Eurasian Wars on our Endangered Planet

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Just as the relentless grinding of the earth’s tectonic plates produces earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, so the endless superpower struggle for […]

Alfred W. McCoy

Climate Crisis
Oil Sheikhs have us Behind the 8-Ball: The UAE’s mixed Signals on Oil underline need for US to move Rapidly to Green Transportation

Oil Sheikhs have us Behind the 8-Ball: The UAE’s mixed Signals on Oil underline need for US to move Rapidly to Green Transportation

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – America is paying the price for lagging behind in its adoption of electric vehicles and in putting in more electric […]

Juan Cole

Libya
Ukraine, Libya, and the Enduring Global Disorder

Ukraine, Libya, and the Enduring Global Disorder

Washington, D.C. (Special to Informed Comment) – According to some analyses, the ongoing war in Ukraine appears to have finally put to rest the illusion […]

Sabina Henneberg

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