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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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Why the California wildfires signal the arrival of a planetary fire age

Why the California wildfires signal the arrival of a planetary fire age

By Stephen Pyne | – Another autumn, more fires, more refugees and incinerated homes. For California, flames have become the colors of fall. Free-burning fire […]

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Bashar al-Assad
Syria’s Al-Assad:  Trump, Openly Criminal, is the best US President we could Wish for

Syria’s Al-Assad: Trump, Openly Criminal, is the best US President we could Wish for

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Syrian strongman (and mass murderer) Bashar al-Assad gave an interview to Syrian media in which he expressed his happiness that […]

Juan Cole

Lebanon
How Lebanon's Uprising Defies the Sectarian Narrative: Not Sunni, Shiite, Christian

How Lebanon’s Uprising Defies the Sectarian Narrative: Not Sunni, Shiite, Christian

By Mira Assaf Kafantaris | – Religion has shaped Lebanon since it gained independence from France in 1943. In this multicultural country of Muslims, Christians […]

The Conversation

Afghanistan
Afghanistan: CIA-Backed Forces Commit Atrocities: HRW

Afghanistan: CIA-Backed Forces Commit Atrocities: HRW

Disband All Irregular Paramilitary Forces, Cooperate With Independent Investigations

Human Rights Watch

Congress
Impeachment was only Made Possible by a Grassroots Mass Movement

Impeachment was only Made Possible by a Grassroots Mass Movement

By Anthony Torres (1st Published at Waging Nonviolence) – The last few weeks have been a turning point for impeachment. Suddenly, dozens of members of […]

Waging Nonviolence

Arab World
Looming Trump Impeachment puts him in Company of Challenged Corrupt Mideast Leaders

Looming Trump Impeachment puts him in Company of Challenged Corrupt Mideast Leaders

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – If we think about mass politics in the Middle East during the past 8 years as anti-corruption drives, it is […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Germany’s Carbon Dioxide Emissions to Fall “Markedly” in 2019 as Energy Use Declines

Germany’s Carbon Dioxide Emissions to Fall “Markedly” in 2019 as Energy Use Declines

By Benjamin Wehrmann and Julian Wettengel | – Germany is headed for second consecutive year of substantial reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, as a sharp […]

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Donald Trump
Too Inept to end the fruitless US Forever Wars: Trump v. the National Security State

Too Inept to end the fruitless US Forever Wars: Trump v. the National Security State

(Tomdispatch.com) – Let us stipulate at the outset that Donald Trump is a vulgar and dishonest fraud without a principled bone in his corpulent frame. […]

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Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
After al-Baghdadi, What Future for far-right Mideast Radicalism?

After al-Baghdadi, What Future for far-right Mideast Radicalism?

By Natasha Lindstaedt | – Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of Islamic State (IS), is dead. After US special forces raided his safe house in […]

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