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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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Donald Trump
Top Six Pieces of Dirt Cohen Dished on Trump in his Opening Statement

Top Six Pieces of Dirt Cohen Dished on Trump in his Opening Statement

“He once asked me if I could name a country run by a black person that wasn’t a “shithole . ”

Juan Cole

Venezuela
The Trojan Horse of US "Aid" to Venezuela

The Trojan Horse of US “Aid” to Venezuela

The arc of U.S. militarism across the 20th century and into the 21st is neither moral nor does it bend toward justice.

H. Patricia Hynes

censorship
In Middle East, Impunity for Human Rights Abuses reigned in 2018: Amnesty

In Middle East, Impunity for Human Rights Abuses reigned in 2018: Amnesty

Beirut (AFP) – “The crackdown on civil society actors and political opponents increased significantly in Egypt, Iran and Saudi Arabia,” the rights watchdog said in […]

Juan Cole

Inequality
The Survival of the Richest:  The Real Wall

The Survival of the Richest: The Real Wall

Money keeps flowing upward through banks and speculation, while the economic lives of those not at the top have largely remained stagnant

Nomi Prins

Qur'an
New Archeological Evidence for the Kaaba, Sanctuary of Peace, in Early Islam

New Archeological Evidence for the Kaaba, Sanctuary of Peace, in Early Islam

“This inscription was written in the year when construction work was done on the sacred shrine in the year 78 [697-8].”

Juan Cole

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A Victim of Trump?  Iran's Centrist Foreign Minister Mysteriously Forced Out

A Victim of Trump? Iran’s Centrist Foreign Minister Mysteriously Forced Out

Was Zarif forced out by regime hard liners angry about his role in the 2015 Nuclear Deal?

Juan Cole

nuclear weapons
Why Proposal to Sell Saudis Nuclear Technology without Safeguards is Terrifying

Why Proposal to Sell Saudis Nuclear Technology without Safeguards is Terrifying

Within days of President Trump’s inauguration, senior U.S. officials were promoting an initiative to transfer nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Bulldozers uproot 300 Palestinian-Owned Trees near Jenin

Israeli Bulldozers uproot 300 Palestinian-Owned Trees near Jenin

B’Tselem: “Under the guise of a “temporary military occupation,” Israel has been “using the land as its own: robbing land”

Maan News Agency

Iran
Khamenei hails Assad in Tehran as Key to “Resistance” to US

Khamenei hails Assad in Tehran as Key to “Resistance” to US

Khamenei: “The creation of the buffer that the Americans are seeking to create in Syria is an example of these dangerous conspiracies”

AFP

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