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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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Why America’s Lame Duck 7 Weeks is Palestine’s Nightmare

Why America’s Lame Duck 7 Weeks is Palestine’s Nightmare

( Foreign Policy in Focus) – Before Obama took office, Israel viciously assaulted the Gaza Strip. As Trump gets the boot, could another gambit be […]

Harry Blain

Israel/ Palestine
Occupation in the Time of COVID-19: Holding Israel Accountable for Palestinian Health

Occupation in the Time of COVID-19: Holding Israel Accountable for Palestinian Health

By Yara Asi Israel has directly contributed to the deterioration of Palestinians’ health during the COVID-19 pandemic throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Al-Shabaka policy analyst, […]

Al-Shabaka

Democratic Socialism
Socialism is a trigger word on social media – but real discussion is going on amid the screaming

Socialism is a trigger word on social media – but real discussion is going on amid the screaming

Robert Kozinets | – The word “socialism” has become a trigger word in U.S. politics, with both positive and negative perceptions of it split along […]

The Conversation

Epidemics
After the Coronavirus took down Trump in Election, could Israeli PM Netanyahu be Next?

After the Coronavirus took down Trump in Election, could Israeli PM Netanyahu be Next?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Mahmoud Mujadalah at the Israeli newspaper Arab48 reports that Benny Gantz, the Israeli minister of defense who was set to […]

Juan Cole

Conspiracy Theories
"Stop the Stupid": Even GOP Stalwarts Are Turning on Trump's Coup Attempt

“Stop the Stupid”: Even GOP Stalwarts Are Turning on Trump’s Coup Attempt

(Special to Informed Comment) – Trump’s coup may have failed, but the scars to democracy won’t heal for generations. In a fitting end to his […]

Sandy Milne

Climate Crisis
The Fall of the American Empire on a Failing Planet

The Fall of the American Empire on a Failing Planet

(Tomdispatch.com ) – We’re now living in an age of opacity, as Rudy Giuliani pointed out in a courtroom recently. Here was the exchange: “‘In […]

Tom Engelhardt

Democracy
Biden vows Turkey's Autocrat Erdogan must "Pay a Price" for attacks on Critics, Syrian Kurds

Biden vows Turkey’s Autocrat Erdogan must “Pay a Price” for attacks on Critics, Syrian Kurds

By Ahmet Alioglu | – ( Middle East Monitor) – One of the leading assistants of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, and a founder of the […]

Middle East Monitor

CIA
Israeli Official: "World should thank Israel" for murdering Iranian Scientist; CIA's Brennan: "Act of state-sponsored terrorism"

Israeli Official: “World should thank Israel” for murdering Iranian Scientist; CIA’s Brennan: “Act of state-sponsored terrorism”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – An unnamed Israeli official told the New York Times on Sunday, “the world should thank Israel” for killing Iranian nuclear […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Why will we Fight 20 Years in weak Afghanistan but won’t make war on Menacing Climate Crisis?

Why will we Fight 20 Years in weak Afghanistan but won’t make war on Menacing Climate Crisis?

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – The United States is engaged in forever hot wars. The war in Afghanistan now nears the end […]

John Buell

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