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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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Displaced and Refugees
Syrian Kurds charge Turkey with Ethnic Cleansing as US Military frets it will be "blind" without Kurdish Help

Syrian Kurds charge Turkey with Ethnic Cleansing as US Military frets it will be “blind” without Kurdish Help

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The semi-autonomous Kurdish region of northeast Syria today accused Turkish forces of conducting ethnic cleansing campaigns in the Kurdish region […]

Juan Cole

Hizbullah
Hezbollah: What Lebanon's Protests against Sectarian Elite Mean for the Party-Militia

Hezbollah: What Lebanon’s Protests against Sectarian Elite Mean for the Party-Militia

By Adham Saouli | – The national uprising that has engulfed Lebanon since mid-October is historic and revolutionary. Protests have continued across Lebanon, even after […]

The Conversation

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Top 6 Problems with Trump Taking Syrian Oil

Top 6 Problems with Trump Taking Syrian Oil

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump keeps talking about taking Syrian oil. In fact, many of those 1,000 special operations troops he pulled out, sending […]

Juan Cole

censorship
No Premature Burial for Academic Freedom: Speaking up in Ann Arbor

No Premature Burial for Academic Freedom: Speaking up in Ann Arbor

By Chandler Davis | – (Informed Comment) – Let me make a case for urgency of defense of academic freedom. I’m not addressing the whole […]

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Forty Years Later, US and Iran still Haunted by Embassy Hostage Crisis

Forty Years Later, US and Iran still Haunted by Embassy Hostage Crisis

(Informed Comment) – The 4th November 2019 marks the 40th anniversary of the Iran Hostage Crisis that has dominated and poisoned Iran-US relations ever since. […]

Farhang Jahanpour

Donald Trump
Trump in Blunder-land or Down the Rabbit-Hole

Trump in Blunder-land or Down the Rabbit-Hole

(Tomdispatch.com) – There can be no question about it. Donald Trump is Lewis Carroll’s Queen of Hearts. “Off with his head!” was the president’s essential […]

Tom Engelhardt

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Biggest Iraqi Crowds in History Demand changes in Bush Constitution

Biggest Iraqi Crowds in History Demand changes in Bush Constitution

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Dubai’s Al-Akhbar al-An reports that further large demonstrations broke out in Iraq on Saturday, leaving 91 wounded and one dead. […]

Juan Cole

Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
ISIL and Donald Trump’s Delusion

ISIL and Donald Trump’s Delusion

Despite al-Baghdadi’s death, Trump is creating the conditions groups like ISIS thrive in

John Feffer

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To Address Climate Change, We Need to Take Back the Supreme Court

To Address Climate Change, We Need to Take Back the Supreme Court

By Thom Hartmann | – (Via Yes! Magazine) – There were those among the founders and framers of the Constitution who didn’t mean for the […]

Yes! Magazine

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