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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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Banking
The Great Depression, Coronavirus Style: Crashes, Then and Now

The Great Depression, Coronavirus Style: Crashes, Then and Now

(Tomdispatch.com) – Many economists believe that a recession is already underway. So do millions of Americans struggling with bills and job losses. While the ghosts […]

Nomi Prins

African-Americans
Top 6 Reasons Authorities are Cracking down Hard on Black Protesters while Treating White Supremacist Reopeners with Kid Gloves

Top 6 Reasons Authorities are Cracking down Hard on Black Protesters while Treating White Supremacist Reopeners with Kid Gloves

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – My social media feeds have been full of comparisons between the treatment by police of Reopener mobs, some of whom […]

Juan Cole

Epidemics
Amid Yemen Coronavirus Outbreak, Aden Buries its dead while Houthis Bury their Heads

Amid Yemen Coronavirus Outbreak, Aden Buries its dead while Houthis Bury their Heads

( Al-Bab.com) – There used to be about ten burials a day in the cemeteries of Yemen’s second city, Aden, but since Covid-19 arrived the […]

Brian Whitaker

Israel/ Palestine
Even the Israeli Right is nervous about Netanyahu's Plans to Annex 1/3 of Palestinian West Bank--but for all the Wrong Reasons

Even the Israeli Right is nervous about Netanyahu’s Plans to Annex 1/3 of Palestinian West Bank–but for all the Wrong Reasons

By Antoine Shalhat | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stressed during the Likud meeting in the Knesset on […]

Middle East Monitor

Far Right
From Jones's Kool-Aid to Trump's Clorox-- Can we Finally leave the Death Cults Behind Us?

From Jones’s Kool-Aid to Trump’s Clorox– Can we Finally leave the Death Cults Behind Us?

By Michael Nagler | – ( Waging Nonviolence) – When I compared the president and his followers to Jim Jones and the “Peoples Temple” cult […]

Waging Nonviolence

Donald Trump
Twitter finally Fact-Checks Trump, but Still Lets him Get Away with Murder (Literally)

Twitter finally Fact-Checks Trump, but Still Lets him Get Away with Murder (Literally)

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has apparently finally had a crisis of conscience over the sewer of falsehoods spewed by Trump […]

Juan Cole

Libya
The Turko-Russian War for Oil and Gas in Libya Intensifies

The Turko-Russian War for Oil and Gas in Libya Intensifies

Belgrade (Special to Informed Comment) – Frenemies Russia and Turkey have put their conflict in Syria on hold, but they have intensified their rivalry in […]

Nikola Mikovic

Climate Crisis
Heat the Earth more than 3.6° F. and Rain Forests will Release Hundreds of Billions of Tons of CO2

Heat the Earth more than 3.6° F. and Rain Forests will Release Hundreds of Billions of Tons of CO2

By Aida Cuní Sanchez and Martin Sullivan | – As they photosynthesise and grow, tropical forests remove enormous amounts of carbon from the atmosphere, reducing […]

The Conversation

Afghanistan
Will our Post-Pandemic Forever Wars be Fought at a Social Distance?

Will our Post-Pandemic Forever Wars be Fought at a Social Distance?

( Tomdispatch.com) – Covid-19, an ongoing global human tragedy, may have at least one silver lining. It has led millions of people to question America’s […]

Danny Sjursen

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