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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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Can the Caspian Sea be Saved from turning into an environmental Disaster?

Can the Caspian Sea be Saved from turning into an environmental Disaster?

Written byNurbek Bekmurzaev ( Global Voices ) – The Caspian Sea, the largest enclosed body of water in the world, faces a grim future in […]

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Christan Nationalists
Secretive Evangelical D.C. Influence Project Appears to Be Running a Group House for Right-Wing Lawmakers

Secretive Evangelical D.C. Influence Project Appears to Be Running a Group House for Right-Wing Lawmakers

By Justin Elliott, Joshua Kaplan and Alex Mierjeski ( ProPublica ) – For a project explicitly designed to influence Congress, Steve Berger’s operation has left […]

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On Int’l Women’s Day:  In Memory of Iranian Women who have Struggled for Freedom

On Int’l Women’s Day: In Memory of Iranian Women who have Struggled for Freedom

Newark, Delaware (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – When Ruhollah Khomeini was still in Neauphle-le-Château, in various declarations and interviews, he had promised that women would have […]

Fariba Amini

Israel/ Palestine
From Gaza to Syria: The unyielding Reality of Israeli Settler-Colonialism

From Gaza to Syria: The unyielding Reality of Israeli Settler-Colonialism

( Middle East Monitor ) – The conversation on settler-colonialism must not be limited to academic discussion. It is a political reality, demonstrated clearly in […]

Ramzy Baroud

Donald Trump
Egypt on edge: finding a delicate balance between Gaza and Trump

Egypt on edge: finding a delicate balance between Gaza and Trump

By May Darwich, University of Birmingham (The Conversation) – US president Donald Trump famously called Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi his “favourite dictator” in 2019, […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Shamash!  “The Threat”

Shamash! “The Threat”

Panel #39 Previous panels : >

Juan Cole

Corruption
Cyberpunk Nation: How Donald Trump’s America Is Being Hacked by White Nationalism

Cyberpunk Nation: How Donald Trump’s America Is Being Hacked by White Nationalism

Here is my column this week for Tom Engelhardt’s Tomdispatch at The Nation Institute. Do check in on his poignant and insightful introduction. ( Tomdispatch.com […]

Juan Cole

Human Rights
Iranian Singer Mehdi Yarrahi Flogged Over Song Against Mandatory Hijab

Iranian Singer Mehdi Yarrahi Flogged Over Song Against Mandatory Hijab

By RFE/RL’s Radio Farda ( RFE/RL ) – Pop singer Mehdi Yarrahi has been given 74 lashes for a song criticizing Iran’s mandatory dress code […]

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Protesting to NY Gov. Hochul for Quashing the Palestinian Studies Post at Hunter College

Protesting to NY Gov. Hochul for Quashing the Palestinian Studies Post at Hunter College

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – The Honorable Kathy Hochul Governor of the State of New York Governor.Hochul@exec.ny.gov   . . […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

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