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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 isn’t the First: the Government has often Persecuted Whistleblowers

Trump isn’t the First: the Government has often Persecuted Whistleblowers

By Jennifer M. Pacella | – When President Donald Trump likened a whistleblower’s White House sources to spies and made a lightly veiled reference to […]

The Conversation

Constitution
Impeach Trump for his Crimes against the People, not just Against the Bidens & Dems

Impeach Trump for his Crimes against the People, not just Against the Bidens & Dems

(Afterwords.org) – Democrats need to take Trump’s crimes against people and the planet as seriously as those against Joe Biden. “Has Trump finally gone too […]

Peter Certo

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Saudis Riposted to drive Houthis from Najran, after Defeat of Saudi-Backed Yemeni Nationalists

Saudis Riposted to drive Houthis from Najran, after Defeat of Saudi-Backed Yemeni Nationalists

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The details of the alleged Houthi operation against Saudi Arabia are still murky, and Saudi Arabia has so far declined […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
What the Dinosaurs Teach us: Earth won't Recover from Human-Caused Mass Extinction for 2 mn Years

What the Dinosaurs Teach us: Earth won’t Recover from Human-Caused Mass Extinction for 2 mn Years

By Paul Bown, Samantha Gibbs, and Sarah Alvarez | – Around 66 million years ago, a giant asteroid struck the Earth, causing the extinction of […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Israel’s systemic harassment of human rights workers

Israel’s systemic harassment of human rights workers

By Asa Winstanley | @AsaWinstanley | – Last week Israel … raided the offices of Addameer, a prisoners rights association, stealing some of its computers […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
Make America Greta Again

Make America Greta Again

By Tom Engelhardt | – (Tomdispatch.com) – Look what Greta started and what she did to me! I took part in the recent climate-strike march […]

Tom Engelhardt

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Yemen's Houthis Say they Invaded Saudi Arabia, Captured Thousands of Troops in Najran

Yemen’s Houthis Say they Invaded Saudi Arabia, Captured Thousands of Troops in Najran

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Update 9/30: The Houthi military operation appears to have been against Saudi-backed nationalist bases in the far north of Yemen, […]

Juan Cole

Constitution
Spies and the White House have a history of running wild without congressional oversight

Spies and the White House have a history of running wild without congressional oversight

By Charles Tiefer | – At the heart of the current crisis over President Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is an intelligence […]

The Conversation

History
The First Inscriptional Evidence for the Wife of the Prophet Muhammad, Aisha

The First Inscriptional Evidence for the Wife of the Prophet Muhammad, Aisha

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Saudi archeologist Muhammad al-Maghthawi has published a photograph of an inscription in the vicinity of Medina that seems to […]

Juan Cole

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