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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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Spike in Violence in 2021 by Israeli Forces, Squatters, toward Palestinian Children: Defense for Children, UN's Bachelet

Spike in Violence in 2021 by Israeli Forces, Squatters, toward Palestinian Children: Defense for Children, UN’s Bachelet

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Defense for Children International-Palestine reports that 2021 was the deadliest year for Palestinian children in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories in […]

Juan Cole

Health Care
Stop Wall Street from Grabbing Traditional Medicare

Stop Wall Street from Grabbing Traditional Medicare

Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment) – The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services “Innovation Center” recently announced that by 2030, they will move all […]

F. Douglas Stephenson

Climate Crisis
Can Nissan make a better Electric Car than Tesla and Save the World?

Can Nissan make a better Electric Car than Tesla and Save the World?

Tom Stacey | Nissan recently announced a new £13 billion investment to help transition its business to being focused around electric vehicles (EVs). The investment […]

The Conversation

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Climate Emergency Pushing White Christmas out of Germany

Climate Emergency Pushing White Christmas out of Germany

( CleanEnergy Wire) – Global warming is making white Christmas a thing of the past in Germany, the country’s national weather service DWD has said. […]

Benjamin Wehrmann

Anti-Vaccination
As 6x as Many die of COVID in Deep Red Counties as in Deep Blue, Sen. Ron Johnson touts . . . Mouthwash as Cure

As 6x as Many die of COVID in Deep Red Counties as in Deep Blue, Sen. Ron Johnson touts . . . Mouthwash as Cure

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) is now alleging that mouthwashes are the way to avoid getting COVID-19. Johnson, a powerful figure […]

Juan Cole

Epidemics
South Africa did the Right thing on Omicron:  Why are Europe and the US Punishing it?

South Africa did the Right thing on Omicron: Why are Europe and the US Punishing it?

( Middle East Monitor) – The decision by several governments across the globe to institute travel bans on seven African countries, starting on 27 November, […]

Ramzy Baroud

Iran
To Succeed in US Foreign Policy, Biden needs a clean Break with Trump

To Succeed in US Foreign Policy, Biden needs a clean Break with Trump

( Code Pink) – The Biden presidency is still in its early days, but it’s not too early to point to areas in the foreign […]

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

Militarization
How to End America’s Forever Wars for Once and for All

How to End America’s Forever Wars for Once and for All

( Tomdispatch.com) – As August ended, American troops completed their withdrawal from Afghanistan almost 20 years after they first arrived. On the formal date of […]

Karen J. Greenberg

Climate Crisis
"Given me a Lever and I will Move the Earth:" Biden orders greening of Federal Gov't, buying of EVs and Solar Panels

“Given me a Lever and I will Move the Earth:” Biden orders greening of Federal Gov’t, buying of EVs and Solar Panels

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes of Syracuse (d. 212 BC), speaking of the power of the lever, said, “Give me […]

Juan Cole

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