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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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Was 'the War on Drugs' always a White Nationalist Project?

Was ‘the War on Drugs’ always a White Nationalist Project?

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Fifty years ago, on June 17, 1971, President Richard Nixon stood before the White House press corps, staffers at his side, […]

Alfred W. McCoy

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Climate Emergency is Driving Ocean's Dead Zones, which emit more and more Nitrous oxide, a super powerful greenhouse gas

Climate Emergency is Driving Ocean’s Dead Zones, which emit more and more Nitrous oxide, a super powerful greenhouse gas

By Brett Jameson | – In October 2019, I set sail with a team of scientists aboard the Canadian Coast Guard Vessel John P. Tully […]

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Israel and the Racial Politics of Palestinian Family Separation

Israel and the Racial Politics of Palestinian Family Separation

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that on Tuesday, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett slammed opposition parties, led by former PM […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israel's colonial violence and international humanitarian aid

Israel’s colonial violence and international humanitarian aid

( Middle East Monitor ) – Whenever Israel bombs Gaza, donor countries are expected to raid their treasuries and manage the resultant humanitarian crisis. The […]

Ramona Wadi

Climate Crisis
Arizona goes for Electric Cars, Big Time, despite being a Red State: “We get Clear Skies”

Arizona goes for Electric Cars, Big Time, despite being a Red State: “We get Clear Skies”

By Brooke Newman | – ( Cronkite News ) – WASHINGTON – For a mostly red state, Arizona has a lot of blue-state company when […]

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Climate Crisis
Extreme Rain and Snow Storms are being caused by Humans burning Coal, Oil:  Global Evidence

Extreme Rain and Snow Storms are being caused by Humans burning Coal, Oil: Global Evidence

By Gavin D. Madakumbura, Alex Hall, Chad Thackeray and Jesse Norris | – The big idea ( The Conversation ) – Human activities, such as […]

The Conversation

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"Chaos" in Israeli Parliament over Apartheid-style Law against Family Unification for Palestinian-Israelis

“Chaos” in Israeli Parliament over Apartheid-style Law against Family Unification for Palestinian-Israelis

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Al-Quds Al-Arabi [Arab Jerusalem] reports “chaos” in the Israeli parliament as it debated into the wee hours of Tuesday morning […]

Juan Cole

Feminism
Thousands of Women protest Throughout Turkey as gov't withdraws from Istanbul Convention on Women's Rights

Thousands of Women protest Throughout Turkey as gov’t withdraws from Istanbul Convention on Women’s Rights

By Arzu Geybullayeva | ( Globalvoices.org) – Thousands of women marched across the largest cities in Turkey on July 1, to protest Turkey’s official withdrawal […]

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How Florida's Political "Survey" of Universities threatens Freedom of Speech

How Florida’s Political “Survey” of Universities threatens Freedom of Speech

( Otherwords.org ) – Florida officials say they want to promote “intellectual freedom” — by using political surveys to target university funding. By Jill Richardson […]

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