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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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The Virus That’s Really Killing Americans? Greed and Corporate Profiteering

The Virus That’s Really Killing Americans? Greed and Corporate Profiteering

( Otherwords.org ) – Health care giants are taking COVID-19 relief money while cutting jobs and paying CEOs millions. By Jim Hightower | July 29, […]

Jim Hightower

Israel
Can Palestinian-Israelis, 20% of the Population, Preserve their Arab Identity?

Can Palestinian-Israelis, 20% of the Population, Preserve their Arab Identity?

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Middle East Monitor

Mass Extinction
Plastic Found Lining Seabird Nests on a Worrying Scale

Plastic Found Lining Seabird Nests on a Worrying Scale

By Tom Ovenden | – From the packaging our food comes in to the clothes we wear, plastic is everywhere. We know that seabirds eat […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
3 Dead as Iraqi Crowds Protest Electricity Outages in 124° Heat; Have US and Climate Crisis left Iraq Unviable?

3 Dead as Iraqi Crowds Protest Electricity Outages in 124° Heat; Have US and Climate Crisis left Iraq Unviable?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Tuesday, the temperature in Baghdad hit 124° F. (51.2°). Just for perspective, the all-time highest temperature recorded for Asia […]

Juan Cole

Houthi
Yemen: Houthi Stonewalling on Leaking Oil Supertanker endangers Red Sea Ecology, 30 Million Livelihoods

Yemen: Houthi Stonewalling on Leaking Oil Supertanker endangers Red Sea Ecology, 30 Million Livelihoods

( Human Rights Watch) – Houthi authorities in Yemen should immediately permit United Nations experts access to a supertanker moored off Yemen’s coast that risks […]

Human Rights Watch

Bill of Rights
“Defendant Shall Not Attend Protests”: In Portland, Getting Out of Jail Requires Relinquishing Constitutional Rights

“Defendant Shall Not Attend Protests”: In Portland, Getting Out of Jail Requires Relinquishing Constitutional Rights

By Dara Lind | – ( ProPublica ) – Federal authorities are using a new tactic in their battle against protesters in Portland, Oregon: arrest […]

ProPublica

Epidemics
The New Isolationism and the Distrustful Citizen:  Covid-19 and the end of Geopolitics

The New Isolationism and the Distrustful Citizen: Covid-19 and the end of Geopolitics

( Tomdispatch.com) – I don’t trust you. Don’t take it personally. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a friend or a stranger. I don’t care about […]

John Feffer

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Is Netanyahu Wagging the Dog with Claims of Hezbollah Clashes (Which Hezbollah doesn't Know about)?

Is Netanyahu Wagging the Dog with Claims of Hezbollah Clashes (Which Hezbollah doesn’t Know about)?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu has been virtually besieged in his prime ministerial mansion on Balfour Street in Jerusalem by […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israel-Palestine between Hi-Tech Dystopian Apartheid and a State for all its Peoples

Israel-Palestine between Hi-Tech Dystopian Apartheid and a State for all its Peoples

( Al-Shabakah) – Palestinian futures have long been discussed without Palestinian input or within an imposed and limited framework. Indeed, most ideas of the future […]

Yara Hawari

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