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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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Corruption
Congress' Relief Package was for Small Business, but pro-Trump Millionaires Grabbed up the Lion's Share

Congress’ Relief Package was for Small Business, but pro-Trump Millionaires Grabbed up the Lion’s Share

( Otherwords.org ) – Thanks to a specially carved loophole, one multi-millionaire claimed 339 times more than the average small business received. By Jim Hightower […]

Jim Hightower

Central Intelligence Agency
Coronavirus and Intelligence: Trump is Getting up Conflict with China the way Bush did with Iraq

Coronavirus and Intelligence: Trump is Getting up Conflict with China the way Bush did with Iraq

By Bob Dreyfuss | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – There’s a meme that appears now and then on Facebook and other social media: “Those who […]

Bob Dreyfuss

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The End of the Oslo Accords: Palestinians pull out of Agreements in face of Netanyahu's Sudetenland Moment

The End of the Oslo Accords: Palestinians pull out of Agreements in face of Netanyahu’s Sudetenland Moment

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh announced after a cabinet meeting that his government will move to implement the end of […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Netanyahu brands the Int'l Criminal Court investigation of Israeli War Crimes a "Strategic Threat"

Netanyahu brands the Int’l Criminal Court investigation of Israeli War Crimes a “Strategic Threat”

( Middle East Monitor) – Since the International Criminal Court (ICC) determined that Palestine is a state for the purpose of its investigations into war […]

Ramona Wadi

Epidemics
Downside of Globalization: Stretched, secret supply chains hold Covid-19 patients’ lives in the balance

Downside of Globalization: Stretched, secret supply chains hold Covid-19 patients’ lives in the balance

By Madlen Davies , Rosa Furneaux, and Ben Stockton | – ( The Bureau of Investigative Journalism) – As more coronavirus patients were admitted to […]

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism

Climate Crisis
Global warming now pushing heat into territory humans cannot tolerate

Global warming now pushing heat into territory humans cannot tolerate

By Tom Matthews and Colin Raymond | – The explosive growth and success of human society over the past 10,000 years has been underpinned by […]

The Conversation

Books
Fundamentalist Pandemics:  What Evangelicals and Khomeinists Could Learn From The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam

Fundamentalist Pandemics: What Evangelicals and Khomeinists Could Learn From The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam

This essay by Juan Cole was originally published in Tomdispatch.com. See the original for a perceptive introductory essay by Tom Engelhardt. This spring, the novel […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Why Israel Elites Fear the Nakba: How memory became Palestine’s greatest weapon

Why Israel Elites Fear the Nakba: How memory became Palestine’s greatest weapon

( Middle East Monitor ) – On May 15, thousands of Palestinians in Occupied Palestine and throughout the ‘shatat’, or diaspora, participated in the commemoration […]

Ramzy Baroud

Displaced and Refugees
Locked up with no escape: refugees and migrants in Libya face bombs,virus and everything in between

Locked up with no escape: refugees and migrants in Libya face bombs,virus and everything in between

By Marwa Mohamed | – (openDemocracy.net) – Libya today is facing its greatest challenge to date. In spite of years of internal conflict, the country […]

Open Democracy

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