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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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Gaza’s children choose between working and starving

Gaza’s children choose between working and starving

By Aseel Kabariti | – Gaza ( We Are Not Numbers) – Child labor takes many forms. Many people picture a child in a factory, […]

We are not Numbers

Crime
More guns, pandemic stress and a police legitimacy crisis created perfect conditions for homicide spike in 2020

More guns, pandemic stress and a police legitimacy crisis created perfect conditions for homicide spike in 2020

By Justin Nix | – Homicides in the U.S. spiked by almost 30% in 2020. That was the main takeaway from figures released on Sept. […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Israeli Youth Protest Israel-UAE Oil Pipeline that Endangers Climate, Key Coral Reefs: The Dark Side of "Abraham Accords"

Israeli Youth Protest Israel-UAE Oil Pipeline that Endangers Climate, Key Coral Reefs: The Dark Side of “Abraham Accords”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The so-called Abraham Accords, which take the patriarch’s name in vain, were about many things, but genuine peace was not […]

Juan Cole

Inequality
If even the Democratic Party can't raise Taxes on the Super-Rich, is the US even a Democracy Any More?

If even the Democratic Party can’t raise Taxes on the Super-Rich, is the US even a Democracy Any More?

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – The struggle over efforts to revise and reform the tax code offers left and labor activists as […]

John Buell

African-Americans
Haitian migrants at the border: An asylum law scholar explains how US skirts its legal and moral duties

Haitian migrants at the border: An asylum law scholar explains how US skirts its legal and moral duties

By Karen Musalo | – The U.S.’s top envoy to Haiti resigned abruptly on Sept. 22, 2021, over the Biden administration’s “inhumane” treatment of Haitian […]

The Conversation

Drones
The Names You’ll Never Know:  A Blue Kia and a Wall of Carnage on the Washington Mall

The Names You’ll Never Know: A Blue Kia and a Wall of Carnage on the Washington Mall

( Tomdispatch.com) – As a parting shot, on its way out of Afghanistan, the United States military launched a drone attack that the Pentagon called […]

Nick Turse

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Palestinian Parties, Organizations Greet Abbas's Pledge to take Israel to Int'l  Court as "Historic" and Roadmap

Palestinian Parties, Organizations Greet Abbas’s Pledge to take Israel to Int’l Court as “Historic” and Roadmap

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – al-Quds [Jerusalem] reports that Palestinians in the West Bank greeted President Mahmoud Abbas’s UN speech, in which he pledged to […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
The End of Coal?   In Huge News for Climate, China to Stop Building new Coal Power Projects Overseas

The End of Coal? In Huge News for Climate, China to Stop Building new Coal Power Projects Overseas

By Shi Yi | – ( China Dialogue ) – The mounting calls for China to stop supporting coal power projects overseas have received an […]

China Dialogue

Inequality
Fund the Jobs bill by taxing the Billionaires who have made the $1.8 trillion during the Pandemic

Fund the Jobs bill by taxing the Billionaires who have made the $1.8 trillion during the Pandemic

By Chuck Collins | – ( Otherwords.org) – As lawmakers scramble to finalize a historic jobs and infrastructure package, huge fights are underway to figure […]

OtherWords

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