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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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Big Banks accept a Catastrophic 5.4º F. Temperature Rise, Hope to sell People more Air Conditioners

Big Banks accept a Catastrophic 5.4º F. Temperature Rise, Hope to sell People more Air Conditioners

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Corbin Hiar reports at the Scientific American that the big banks are now banking on a 5.4º F. (3º Celsius) […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Int’l Red Cross Outraged by Israel’s killing of Medics, First Responders in Gaza

Int’l Red Cross Outraged by Israel’s killing of Medics, First Responders in Gaza

( Middle East Monitor ) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Sunday expressed outrage after eight paramedics from the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS), five […]

Middle East Monitor

Academic Freedom
Protesting Harvard’s Dismissal of Directors of its Mideast Center over Israel-Palestine as Attack on Academic Freedom

Protesting Harvard’s Dismissal of Directors of its Mideast Center over Israel-Palestine as Attack on Academic Freedom

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Committee on Academic Freedom Alan Garber  President, Harvard University . . . Dear President […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

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Iran Rejects direct talks with Trump despite threat that “There will be Bombing.”

Iran Rejects direct talks with Trump despite threat that “There will be Bombing.”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian met with his cabinet on Sunday, according to the president’s website, and announced that Trump’s offer […]

Juan Cole

China
China Displaces the U.S. as Global Leader in Research, with 9 of top 10 Institutions

China Displaces the U.S. as Global Leader in Research, with 9 of top 10 Institutions

Nine of the world’s top 10 research institutions are now Chinese. By Imran Khalid ( Foreign Policy in Focus) – In the last decade, a […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

Donald Trump
Can Fortress Europe survive Trump, Putin and the new Political Dark Age?

Can Fortress Europe survive Trump, Putin and the new Political Dark Age?

( Tomdispatch.com ) – The news of Rodrigo Duterte’s arrest surprised me. It’s not that I doubted the former leader of the Philippines was guilty […]

John Feffer

Climate Crisis
Your Gasoline Car is an Engine of Trump’s Fascism: Resistance requires going Green

Your Gasoline Car is an Engine of Trump’s Fascism: Resistance requires going Green

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Mussolini defined fascism as the “merger of state and corporate power.” But not all corporations are equally complicit. Obviously, our […]

Juan Cole

Iran
With Proxies Weakened, Iran bets on Missiles for Defense

With Proxies Weakened, Iran bets on Missiles for Defense

By Kian Sharifi ( RFE/ RL) – Iran says it has numerous underground missile bases across Iran, and sporadically unveils some with a lot of […]

Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Israel/ Palestine
Gaza: Israeli Military War Crimes While Occupying Hospitals

Gaza: Israeli Military War Crimes While Occupying Hospitals

Denial of Care, Deadly Forced Evacuations, Destruction of Medical Facilities Israeli military forces caused deaths and unnecessary suffering of Palestinian patients while occupying hospitals in […]

Human Rights Watch

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