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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/ Palestine
Marriage in the age of the coronavirus: The world is now living the Gaza experience

Marriage in the age of the coronavirus: The world is now living the Gaza experience

By Eman Abusidu | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Love is that natural feeling that sweeps through the hearts of every human being. […]

Middle East Monitor

Donald Trump
Why are white supremacists protesting to 'reopen' the US economy?

Why are white supremacists protesting to ‘reopen’ the US economy?

By Shannon Reid and Matthew Valasik | – A series of protests, primarily in state capitals, are demanding the end of COVID-19 lockdown restrictions. Among […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
The Assassin-in-Chief Comes Home

The Assassin-in-Chief Comes Home

( Tomdispatch.com) – “Be assured of one thing: whichever candidate you choose at the polls in November, you aren’t just electing a president of the […]

Tom Engelhardt

Books
Poetry of Uplift for our Plague Year: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Juan Cole’s New Translation)

Poetry of Uplift for our Plague Year: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Juan Cole’s New Translation)

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Today my new translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is out from I.B. Tauris/ Bloomsbury. I hope you all […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Stop Saying more have died from Coronavirus than in Vietnam: US War Killed a Million There

Stop Saying more have died from Coronavirus than in Vietnam: US War Killed a Million There

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The rash of headlines blaring that the coronavirus has now killed more than died in the Vietnam War betrays an […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israel’s Annexation of Occupied Palestine would be a War Crime

Israel’s Annexation of Occupied Palestine would be a War Crime

( Middle East Monitor ) – Israel is about to annex large swathes of the occupied West Bank, making the territory formally part of the […]

Asa Winstanley

Islamophobia
Coronavirus Masks reveal Hypocrisy of Islamophobic anti-Veil Laws

Coronavirus Masks reveal Hypocrisy of Islamophobic anti-Veil Laws

By Katherine Bullock | – Grey’s Anatomy, the longest running prime-time medical drama on U.S. television, contains many scenes of doctors and nurses in full […]

The Conversation

Drone Warfare
In War Crime, United Arab Emirates Drone Strike in Libya kills 8 Civilians

In War Crime, United Arab Emirates Drone Strike in Libya kills 8 Civilians

(Beirut) – An apparently unlawful drone attack by the United Arab Emirates that hit the Al-Sunbulah biscuit factory in Wadi al-Rabie, Libya, south of Tripoli, […]

Human Rights Watch

Climate Crisis
Lowest Solar bid in World History for new Abu Dhabi Facility, as expensive Coal, backed by Trump, declines further

Lowest Solar bid in World History for new Abu Dhabi Facility, as expensive Coal, backed by Trump, declines further

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Abu Dhabi has accepted a historically low bid of 1.35 cents a kilowatt hour for a new giant 1.5 gigawatt […]

Juan Cole

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