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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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Israel: Violence, hate speech, discrimination against Palestinian minority must stop – UN expert

Israel: Violence, hate speech, discrimination against Palestinian minority must stop – UN expert

( UN Human Rights, Office of the High Commissioner) | GENEVA | – A UN human rights expert condemned attacks on Israel’s Palestinian minority by […]

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Climate Crisis
Climate explained: why is the frozen Arctic heating up faster than other parts of the world?

Climate explained: why is the frozen Arctic heating up faster than other parts of the world?

By Steve Turton | – What is Arctic amplification? Do we know what is causing this phenomenon? What effects is it having, both in the […]

The Conversation

Education
Covid-19, our Public Schools and the Real-Time Lessons of Civic Democracy

Covid-19, our Public Schools and the Real-Time Lessons of Civic Democracy

By Belle Chesler | ( Tomdispatch.com) – It seems appropriate that the 2020-2021 school year in Portland, Oregon, began amid toxic smoke from the catastrophic […]

Belle Chesler

Authoritarianism
Flynn calls for Myanmar-Style Military Junta in U.S. - If he were Black, Brown or Muslim he'd be in Guantánamo

Flynn calls for Myanmar-Style Military Junta in U.S. – If he were Black, Brown or Muslim he’d be in Guantánamo

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Donie O’Sullivan at CNN reports that disgraced former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn called for a military coup, like the […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
This time, Palestine Solidarity Swept the U.S.

This time, Palestine Solidarity Swept the U.S.

By Shane Burley | – ( Waging Nonviolence) – In mid-May, hundreds gathered in Terry Schrunk Plaza in downtown Portland, Oregon with signs denouncing the […]

Waging Nonviolence

Inequality
Biden’s modest corporate tax increases to fund public infrastructure projects are wildly popular — except among CEOs

Biden’s modest corporate tax increases to fund public infrastructure projects are wildly popular — except among CEOs

By Jim Hightower ( Otherwords.org) – “Outrageous,” screeched the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. “It doesn’t feel fair,” whimpered a top corporate executive. The wailing by […]

Jim Hightower

Climate Crisis
Climate change will cost a teenager up to $245,000 over their lifetime, court case reveals

Climate change will cost a teenager up to $245,000 over their lifetime, court case reveals

By Liam Phelan and Jacquie Svenson | – The Federal Court today dismissed a bid by a group of Australian teenagers seeking to prevent federal […]

The Conversation

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Why proposed new Israeli PM, extreme-right Naftali "I've Killed a Lot of Arabs" Bennett, is even worse for Palestinians than far right Netanyahu

Why proposed new Israeli PM, extreme-right Naftali “I’ve Killed a Lot of Arabs” Bennett, is even worse for Palestinians than far right Netanyahu

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a prime time address on Sunday evening, right wing extremist Israeli politician Naftali Bennett announced that he intended to […]

Juan Cole

Congress
Mitch McConnell, Shepherd of Shame: Taking Names for a New, Deeper Circle of Hades

Mitch McConnell, Shepherd of Shame: Taking Names for a New, Deeper Circle of Hades

Mitch McConnell will go down in history as one of the most destructive men in American History. If obstructing all the positive legislation and court […]

H. Scott Prosterman

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