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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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It Can be Done: California Briefly reaches 94.5% Renewable Electricity

It Can be Done: California Briefly reaches 94.5% Renewable Electricity

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Sammy Roth at the LA Times/ Boiling Point Newsletter reports that California’s main power grid was powered for several hours […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
How the US is shielding Israel from Apartheid charges and itself from complicity charges

How the US is shielding Israel from Apartheid charges and itself from complicity charges

( Middle East Monitor) – The Palestinians mentioned apartheid in connection with Israel long before B’Tselem used the description. Now it is the turn of […]

Ramona Wadi

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Violent Extremism: QAnon and the offline dangers of online speech

Violent Extremism: QAnon and the offline dangers of online speech

By Chandell Gosse and Jaigris Hodson | – The new docuseries, Q: Into the Storm, is an investigation into the QAnon conspiracy theory and the […]

The Conversation

Militarization
No, getting out of Afghanistan doesn’t end America’s Forever Wars:  A Lifetime “at War”

No, getting out of Afghanistan doesn’t end America’s Forever Wars: A Lifetime “at War”

( Tomdispatch.com ) Here’s the strange thing in an ever-stranger world: I was born in July 1944 in the midst of a devastating world war. […]

Tom Engelhardt

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Why Jerusalem is Sacred to Muslims, and why even the Emirates are Rebuking Israel for Persecuting Palestinians There

Why Jerusalem is Sacred to Muslims, and why even the Emirates are Rebuking Israel for Persecuting Palestinians There

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan began Monday, April 12, and for the succeeding week and a half there […]

Juan Cole

Democratic Party
Biden's first 100 days show a president in a hurry and willing to be bold

Biden’s first 100 days show a president in a hurry and willing to be bold

By Bruce Wolpe | – Joseph R. Biden Jr is the most experienced person to become president in US history. A senator for 36 years, […]

The Conversation

Egypt
How Renewables could Forestall an Egypt-Sudan-Ethiopia War over the Grand Renaissance Nile Dam

How Renewables could Forestall an Egypt-Sudan-Ethiopia War over the Grand Renaissance Nile Dam

By Laureen Fagan | – ( Sustainability Times) – Renewable sources have the power when it comes to the energy future of East Africans, but […]

Sustainability Times

Climate Change
How Organizers can fight back against Corporate Greenwashing and Climate 'Inactivism'

How Organizers can fight back against Corporate Greenwashing and Climate ‘Inactivism’

By Selina Gallo-Cruz | – ( Waging Nonviolence) – When communities around the country carried out annual clean-ups and tree-plantings in celebration of a now […]

Waging Nonviolence

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Israel is an Apartheid State seeking Systemic Domination of Palestinians: Human Rights Watch

Israel is an Apartheid State seeking Systemic Domination of Palestinians: Human Rights Watch

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Human Rights Watch has issued a 214-page report concluding that between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean there are 6.8 […]

Juan Cole

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