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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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Climate Crisis
Pacific Islanders to Climate COP26: Limit Global Heating or We are Sunk

Pacific Islanders to Climate COP26: Limit Global Heating or We are Sunk

By Wesley Morgan | – The Pacific Islands are at the frontline of climate change. But as rising seas threaten their very existence, these tiny […]

The Conversation

Bill of Rights
Bannon Vote: Republicans once Voted to Hold Hollywood 10 in Contempt for Making Leftist Movies but won't act on Far-Right Plot to Overthrow Gov't

Bannon Vote: Republicans once Voted to Hold Hollywood 10 in Contempt for Making Leftist Movies but won’t act on Far-Right Plot to Overthrow Gov’t

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Anyone who knows the history of abuse in the Congress’s prerogative of subpoenaing witnesses and holding people in contempt for […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Brazilian Senate Panel urges Pres. Bolsonaro be Charged with Crimes against Humanity for killing 150K by worsening Pandemic

Brazilian Senate Panel urges Pres. Bolsonaro be Charged with Crimes against Humanity for killing 150K by worsening Pandemic

By Matt Williams | – A Brazilian congressional panel has recommended that President Jair Bolsonaro be charged with “crimes against humanity” over his alleged bungling […]

The Conversation

Books
Citizen Pilgrim:  Richard Falk’s Breakthrough against Israeli Apartheid toward Palestinians

Citizen Pilgrim: Richard Falk’s Breakthrough against Israeli Apartheid toward Palestinians

A review of Public Intellectual: The Life of a Citizen Pilgrim, by Richard Falk. By Walden Bello | ( Foreign Policy in Focus) – Richard […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

Australia
Taking the World to the Brink:  The Australia-UK-US Nuclear Sub Alliance against China

Taking the World to the Brink: The Australia-UK-US Nuclear Sub Alliance against China

By David Vine | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – Before it’s too late, we need to ask ourselves a crucial question: Do we really — I […]

Tomdispatch

Climate Crisis
BBC: Leaks Show Saudis Pressuring UN to Downplay Danger of Fossil Fuels as UN Warns G20 is putting $300 bn into Sector

BBC: Leaks Show Saudis Pressuring UN to Downplay Danger of Fossil Fuels as UN Warns G20 is putting $300 bn into Sector

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A new United Nations-sponsored report finds that governments continue to sponsor the extraction of so much coal, oil and gas […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
How Israeli Squatter-Settlers attack Palestinians and their Olive Harvests with Impunity

How Israeli Squatter-Settlers attack Palestinians and their Olive Harvests with Impunity

( Middle East Monitor) – As happens each year during the Palestinian olive harvest, Israel’s illegal settlers are destroying olive trees and attacking Palestinian farmers. […]

Ramona Wadi

Corporations
Our Future vs. Neoliberalism

Our Future vs. Neoliberalism

( Code Pink) – In country after country around the world, people are rising up to challenge entrenched, failing neoliberal political and economic systems, with […]

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

Environment
Plastic, plastic everywhere – airborne microplastics are settling into the most remote corners of the globe

Plastic, plastic everywhere – airborne microplastics are settling into the most remote corners of the globe

By Elvis Genbo Xu and Xiaoyu Duan | – Little pieces of plastic can now be found everywhere: from table salt, drinking water and food, […]

The Conversation

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