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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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Israel Teeters on Brink, as Protests erupt against Indicted Netanyahu forming Gov't, and Supreme Court prepares to Rule on his Eligibility

Israel Teeters on Brink, as Protests erupt against Indicted Netanyahu forming Gov’t, and Supreme Court prepares to Rule on his Eligibility

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Thousands of Israelis gathered again at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv to protest the formation of a new national unity […]

Juan Cole

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A Complete Waste of Money’: Fossil Fuel Industry Takes At Least $50 Million in Covid Aid Despite Financial Struggles Long Before Outbreak

A Complete Waste of Money’: Fossil Fuel Industry Takes At Least $50 Million in Covid Aid Despite Financial Struggles Long Before Outbreak

By Julia Conley, staff writer | – (Commondreams.org) – “We need to be getting checks directly to workers, including in the fossil fuel industry—not hoping […]

Common Dreams

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How Trump's ICE sentenced an Acquitted Iranian Academic to Months-long Detention without Trial, and to Covid-19

How Trump’s ICE sentenced an Acquitted Iranian Academic to Months-long Detention without Trial, and to Covid-19

By Yeganeh Torbati | – (ProPublica) – As the coronavirus spread this spring, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials shuttled Sirous Asgari between detention sites and […]

ProPublica

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Our real Pandemic is burgeoning Inequality

Our real Pandemic is burgeoning Inequality

( Otherwords.org) – The forces of greed shoved working families to the edge — all it took was a virus to push them over. By […]

Jim Hightower

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Like Twenty-One  9/11s:  Our 2020 Pandemic is "The Trump Virus",  just as 1918's was "Spanish Flu"

Like Twenty-One 9/11s: Our 2020 Pandemic is “The Trump Virus”, just as 1918’s was “Spanish Flu”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The “Spanish Flu” did not originate in Spain, but Spain had been neutral in WW I and so the Spanish […]

Juan Cole

Epidemics
In Age of Pandemic, is Mismanagement driving Saudi Arabia toward Bankruptcy?

In Age of Pandemic, is Mismanagement driving Saudi Arabia toward Bankruptcy?

By Motasem A Dalloul | @abujomaaGaza | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – On 6 March, the OPEC+ cartel failed to agree on a […]

Middle East Monitor

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Threat to Sea Life: Scientists find 1.9 mn. pieces of Microplastic from our Clothing on 3 Sq. ft. of Deep Ocean Floor

Threat to Sea Life: Scientists find 1.9 mn. pieces of Microplastic from our Clothing on 3 Sq. ft. of Deep Ocean Floor

By Ian Kane and Michael Clare | – What if the “great ocean garbage patches” were just the tip of the iceberg? While more than […]

The Conversation

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The Coronavirus and Geo-Politics: Trump's Xenophobia and Weapons of the Weak

The Coronavirus and Geo-Politics: Trump’s Xenophobia and Weapons of the Weak

Istanbul (Special to Informed Comment) – The coronavirus pandemic is not over yet and anyone hardly knows when and how it will end, but many […]

Abdullah al-Ahsan

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Trump threatened to pull US Security Umbrella from Saudi if it didn't raise Oil Prices to Help US Frackers

Trump threatened to pull US Security Umbrella from Saudi if it didn’t raise Oil Prices to Help US Frackers

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On April 2, the Republican Party more or less joined the Organization of Petroleum Exporting States Plus (OPEC+). That is […]

Juan Cole

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