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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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Lincoln's Invention of Thanksgiving was all About how Black Lives Matter

Lincoln’s Invention of Thanksgiving was all About how Black Lives Matter

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Thanksgiving Day, as is well known, was an invented tradition arising from the Civil War, promoted by Abraham Lincoln and […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Having Left the Iran Nuclear Deal, can the US revive it with the seventh round in Vienna?

Having Left the Iran Nuclear Deal, can the US revive it with the seventh round in Vienna?

By Hani Habeeb | – ( Middle East Monitor) – While the American Special Representative to Iran, Robert Malley, surprised observers of the nuclear file […]

Middle East Monitor

Militarization
No, Modern Warfare is not "Accurate" or "Accountable" and dead Innocents are not "Collateral Damage"

No, Modern Warfare is not “Accurate” or “Accountable” and dead Innocents are not “Collateral Damage”

By Lauren Gould, Jolle Demmers, and Nora Stel | – The US military is facing allegations it covered up civilian casualty cases in the US-led […]

The Conversation

Archaeology
Pandemic History: The Great Plague of Justinian in the 500s AD was a Black Death that Shaped the Century before Islam

Pandemic History: The Great Plague of Justinian in the 500s AD was a Black Death that Shaped the Century before Islam

Research News of the University of Cambridge | – ‘Plague sceptics’ are wrong to underestimate the devastating impact that bubonic plague had in the 6th– […]

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censorship
Apple Sues Israeli gov't-backed NSO Spyware Company: "Notorious Hackers - Amoral 21st C. Mercenaries"

Apple Sues Israeli gov’t-backed NSO Spyware Company: “Notorious Hackers – Amoral 21st C. Mercenaries”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Apple is suing the NSO group, which produced the spyware that Israel uses to keep under surveillance the 5 million […]

Juan Cole

Iran
'It's My Decision': Iran's New Population Law Blasted For Restricting Access To Contraceptives, Abortions

‘It’s My Decision’: Iran’s New Population Law Blasted For Restricting Access To Contraceptives, Abortions

By Golnaz Esfandiari and Elahe Ravanshad | – ( RFL/RE ) – Authorities have approved new legislation that imposes further restrictions on abortions, bans the […]

Golnaz Esfandiari

CO2
Climate Emergency: Big Oil wants to go on drilling while greenwashing with imaginary "Carbon Capture"

Climate Emergency: Big Oil wants to go on drilling while greenwashing with imaginary “Carbon Capture”

By June Sekera and Neva Goodwin | – After decades of sowing doubt about climate change and its causes, the fossil fuel industry is now […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Mars Attacks Earth!   And we’re the Martians in this Picture

Mars Attacks Earth! And we’re the Martians in this Picture

( Tomdispatch.com) – Who knew that Martians, inside monstrous tripodal machines taller than many buildings, actually ululated, that they made eerily haunting “ulla, ulla, ulla, […]

Tom Engelhardt

Authoritarianism
For First Time, US joins Brazil and India as "Backsliding Democracy": GOP is making US a Third World Country

For First Time, US joins Brazil and India as “Backsliding Democracy”: GOP is making US a Third World Country

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Sweden’s International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance finds this year that the United States of America has joined the […]

Juan Cole

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