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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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Despite the Opposition of Some, The Science is Clear: Masks Stop the Spread of Coronavirus and should be Mandatory

Despite the Opposition of Some, The Science is Clear: Masks Stop the Spread of Coronavirus and should be Mandatory

By Jeremy Howard | I’m a data scientist at the University of San Francisco and teach courses online in machine learning for fast.ai. In late […]

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Dr. Bright to Congress: With 85,000 already Dead, US Gov't Coronavirus Inaction threatens us with "Darkest Winter in Modern History"

Dr. Bright to Congress: With 85,000 already Dead, US Gov’t Coronavirus Inaction threatens us with “Darkest Winter in Modern History”

The testimony of Dr. Rick Bright on Thursday was a remarkably low-key affair given the bombshell revelations Ruiz divulged of the paralysis, inaction and frankly […]

Juan Cole

Democracy
Democracy is not a Luxury in Times of Pandemic

Democracy is not a Luxury in Times of Pandemic

Washington, D.C. (Special to Informed Comment) – While some pundits extol the virtue of strong government (i.e., dictatorship) in fighting Covid-19, Middle Eastern activists are […]

Elizabeth F. Thompson

Culture
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam:  “All those whose Names are Written in Love’s Book”

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: “All those whose Names are Written in Love’s Book”

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Quatrain of the Day All hearts that shine with passion’s radiance, no matter if they pray in mosque or church– all […]

Juan Cole

China
How China's Han Empire Predicted America’s Imperial Decay

How China’s Han Empire Predicted America’s Imperial Decay

Ann Arbor (Special to Informed Comment) – The Han dynasty’s collapse is an abject lesson in imperial decay that prefigures in alarming ways our own […]

Martin Powers

Epidemics
Who is "Essential" to our Covid-19 World?  A Military Spouse's Perspective on Fighting this Pandemic

Who is “Essential” to our Covid-19 World? A Military Spouse’s Perspective on Fighting this Pandemic

By Andrea Mazzarino | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – “When he first came home, it was tough.” So Aleha, the wife of an airman in […]

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Donald Trump
Top 6 Reasons Trump & Pompeo are Blessing Israel's new Annexationist Government

Top 6 Reasons Trump & Pompeo are Blessing Israel’s new Annexationist Government

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo dropped in on Israel on Wednesday to bestow his blessing on the new annexationist […]

Juan Cole

al-Qaeda
How the Justice Department Accidentally Released the Name of Saudi Official Suspected of Helping the 9/11 Hijackers

How the Justice Department Accidentally Released the Name of Saudi Official Suspected of Helping the 9/11 Hijackers

By Tim Golden and Sebastian Rotella | – (ProPublica) – After an extraordinary, two-year battle to keep secret the name of a Saudi diplomat suspected […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Discriminatory Israeli Land Policies Box in the Palestinian Natives

Discriminatory Israeli Land Policies Box in the Palestinian Natives

( Human Rights Job ) – (Jisr al-Zarqa) – The Israeli government’s policy of boxing in Palestinian communities extends beyond the West Bank and Gaza […]

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