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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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Russia in Ukraine: Is Turkey’s neutrality Option Viable?

Russia in Ukraine: Is Turkey’s neutrality Option Viable?

By Omar Kosh | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Turkish politicians waited for several days before describing the events in Ukraine as a […]

Middle East Monitor

Russia
Why Apple, Disney, IKEA and hundreds of other Western companies are abandoning Russia with barely a shrug

Why Apple, Disney, IKEA and hundreds of other Western companies are abandoning Russia with barely a shrug

By Douglas Schuler and Laura Marie Edinger-Schons | – Many companies in the U.S. and elsewhere have been quick to sever ties to Russia – […]

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Ukraine: What the Libya War tells us about Why we Really don't want a NATO No-Fly Zone

Ukraine: What the Libya War tells us about Why we Really don’t want a NATO No-Fly Zone

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Tracy Wilkinson at the Los Angeles Times writes about the no-fly zone proposed by President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and […]

Juan Cole

Arab Americans
US Media (Rightly) focuses on Ukrainian Rights, but it Racializes Muslims deprived of those Same Rights

US Media (Rightly) focuses on Ukrainian Rights, but it Racializes Muslims deprived of those Same Rights

(Special to Informed Comment) – Speaking about the significance of knowledge and its role in democracy, President John F. Kennedy once stated that only an […]

Assal Rad

Human Rights
Ukraine: Russian Assault Kills Fleeing Civilians, suggesting Laws of War Violations (HRW)

Ukraine: Russian Assault Kills Fleeing Civilians, suggesting Laws of War Violations (HRW)

( Human Rights Watch ) – For several hours on March 6, 2022, Russian forces bombarded an intersection on a road that hundreds of civilians […]

Human Rights Watch

Climate Crisis
Our Ukraine Wake-Up Call:  The Global Age is Upon Us

Our Ukraine Wake-Up Call: The Global Age is Upon Us

( Tomdispatch.com ) – In recent days, experts have begun laying out the potential hardships the Russian invasion of Ukraine might inflict here in the […]

Karen J. Greenberg

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Western Sympathy for White Ukrainian Refugees, while ignoring, demonizing Palestinian Refugees from Israeli Aggression

Western Sympathy for White Ukrainian Refugees, while ignoring, demonizing Palestinian Refugees from Israeli Aggression

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Raed Qadura writing at Al Jazeera points to the “Hypocrisy Crisis” in the international coverage of Russia in Ukraine versus […]

Juan Cole

Feminism
Combating Honor Killings among Kurds: Is a New kind of Education Needed?

Combating Honor Killings among Kurds: Is a New kind of Education Needed?

(Special to Informed Comment) – Four women were victims of honor killings during the week of February 17, 2022 in Iraqi Kurdistan. The following week, […]

Alex Poppe

Feminism
International Women's Day: Evolution and Challenges

International Women’s Day: Evolution and Challenges

By Hatice Nur Keskin | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Proclaimed by the UN in 1975, International Women’s Day (IWD) is a global […]

Middle East Monitor

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