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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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UN:  Pace of Climate Change too fast for many Plant and Animal Species to Adapt

UN: Pace of Climate Change too fast for many Plant and Animal Species to Adapt

Shifting seasons, intensifying wildfires and noise pollution are flagged as increasingly urgent environmental issues in a bleak report by the UN Environment Programme. ( China […]

China Dialogue

Donald Trump
The Republican Party Persecuted US Leftists for tilting to Moscow but Makes Excuses for Putin-Loving Trump

The Republican Party Persecuted US Leftists for tilting to Moscow but Makes Excuses for Putin-Loving Trump

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump’s fawning admiration of Vladimir Putin is well known, but it has often been brushed off as a quirk. We […]

Juan Cole

Displaced and Refugees
Why Putin's War against Ukraine is Illegal in International Law

Why Putin’s War against Ukraine is Illegal in International Law

By Hurst Hannum | – Both international law and the United Nations Charter say that countries should not invade each other. But who has the […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Scorching the Earth:  When Big Oil and Gas Flare, the Methane traps 80x as Much Heat as C02

Scorching the Earth: When Big Oil and Gas Flare, the Methane traps 80x as Much Heat as C02

By Nicole Sadek, Zoha Tunio and Sarah Hunt | Howard Center for Investigative Journalism< When companies flare, they do more than burn natural gas. They […]

Cronkite News Arizona PBS

Climate Crisis
Climate-related damage to German forests ‘unprecedented’: German Aerospace Center

Climate-related damage to German forests ‘unprecedented’: German Aerospace Center

By Edgar Meza | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – Researchers at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) have for the first time determined how […]

Clean Energy Wire

Bush
How Bush's Iraq Fiasco ruined US Credibility and Enabled Putin's Invasion of Ukraine

How Bush’s Iraq Fiasco ruined US Credibility and Enabled Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – George W. Bush issued a statement about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It went like this: DALLAS, TEXAS – “Russia’s […]

Juan Cole

History
Russia in Ukraine: Basing Land Claims on Ethnicity/History rather than Int'l Law always leads to Bloody Conflict

Russia in Ukraine: Basing Land Claims on Ethnicity/History rather than Int’l Law always leads to Bloody Conflict

From: The Conversation: The first casualty of war, says historian Ronald Suny, is not just the truth. Often, he says, “it is what is left […]

Ronald Suny

Israel/ Palestine
It's Settled That Israel Is Committing the Crime of Apartheid—Now What Should We Do About It?

It’s Settled That Israel Is Committing the Crime of Apartheid—Now What Should We Do About It?

( Commondreams.org ) – When Amnesty International released its report “Israel’s Apartheid Against Palestinians: Cruel System of Domination and Crime Against Humanity” earlier the month, […]

Phyllis Bennis

China
China is Rising as a Superpower by vastly Expanding Planet-Wrecking Fossil Fuels

China is Rising as a Superpower by vastly Expanding Planet-Wrecking Fossil Fuels

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Consider us at the edge of the sort of epochal change not seen for centuries, even millennia. By the middle of […]

Alfred W. McCoy

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