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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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Trump, head of GOP, demands Chinese Communist Party Prosecute Businessman for Crime of Making Money

Trump, head of GOP, demands Chinese Communist Party Prosecute Businessman for Crime of Making Money

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A particularly unperceptive and unfeeling wag came up with the bon mot defining a “socialist” as someone kept up at […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Is Turkey planning an attack on Syrian Kurds?

Is Turkey planning an attack on Syrian Kurds?

ISTANBUL —The Turkish government plans to use Syrian refugees to displace the local Kurdish population in northern Syria. But so far, the scheme isn’t working […]

Reese Erlich

Authoritarianism
Duke U. Faculty reply to Trump Dept of Ed. demand for Negative Teaching on Islam and Palestinians

Duke U. Faculty reply to Trump Dept of Ed. demand for Negative Teaching on Islam and Palestinians

Letter: 62 Duke faculty respond to Department of Education directive letter to the editor By Concerned Faculty October 3, 2019 | ( The Duke Chronicle) […]

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America now solves problems with troops, not diplomats

America now solves problems with troops, not diplomats

By Monica Duffy Toft | – Is America a bully? As a scholar, under the auspices of the Military Intervention Project, I have been studying […]

The Conversation

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US Press Horrified by Trump's "Shoot Migrants in the Legs" but ignores what Israeli Snipers do to Palestinian Protesters

US Press Horrified by Trump’s “Shoot Migrants in the Legs” but ignores what Israeli Snipers do to Palestinian Protesters

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Americans were horrified to hear that Trump wanted to have US forces at the US-Mexico border to charge migrants with […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
The New Age of Protest

The New Age of Protest

(Foreign Policy in Focus) – People are hitting the streets to protest government inaction, repression, and corruption. Does that mean democracy is in trouble or […]

John Feffer

Constitution
How the impeachment inquiry might affect Trump's 2020 re-election chances

How the impeachment inquiry might affect Trump’s 2020 re-election chances

By Dennis Altman | – The next 13 months will see American politics completely dominated by the fate of Donald Trump. As the House of […]

The Conversation

Authoritarianism
A Trumpian Future for our Kids:  A Hot, Sweltering 1984

A Trumpian Future for our Kids: A Hot, Sweltering 1984

By Frida Berrigan | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Okay, I’ll admit it. Sometimes I can’t take the bad news. It’s too much. It’s so […]

Tomdispatch

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Trump's Ukraine Ask was Criminal; but it Was SCOTUS' Citizens United that Invited Foreign Interference in US Elections

Trump’s Ukraine Ask was Criminal; but it Was SCOTUS’ Citizens United that Invited Foreign Interference in US Elections

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump is accused of soliciting the help of a foreign government to dig dirt on, essentially to do opposition research […]

Juan Cole

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