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Pakistan now gets 25% of its Electricity from Solar, Plans Solar Panel factory
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Pakistan now gets 25% of its Electricity from Solar, Plans Solar Panel factory

Juan Cole

Only about 20 countries globally get a quarter or more of their power from solar.

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Protesting the U of Arkansas for Removing Middle East Center Director over her Condemnation of the Bombing of Iran

Protesting the U of Arkansas for Removing Middle East Center Director over her Condemnation of the Bombing of Iran

12/17/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

Who’s Responsible When a Military Order is Illegal? (Don’t Ask Donald Trump!)

Who’s Responsible When a Military Order is Illegal? (Don’t Ask Donald Trump!)

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Israel/ Palestine
The Great March of Return is a Turning Point in Palestinian Collective Memory

The Great March of Return is a Turning Point in Palestinian Collective Memory

People from all walks of life took part in what was dubbed the “Million Man March”

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Israel/ Palestine
Incremental Settler Colonialism: Israel to Approve 5,000 new Squatter Units in Palestinian West Bank

Incremental Settler Colonialism: Israel to Approve 5,000 new Squatter Units in Palestinian West Bank

Between 500,000 and 600,000 Israelis have moved into squatter settlements in occupied Palestinian territory, in violation of international law

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Pentagon
Goodbye to All That: The Forever Wars Go on Without Me

Goodbye to All That: The Forever Wars Go on Without Me

I’m active now in what little there is of an antiwar movement in this country

Danny Sjursen

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Israeli Snipers Kill 4, wound 207 as 40,000 Palestinians March Peacefully in Gaza for Right to Return

Israeli Snipers Kill 4, wound 207 as 40,000 Palestinians March Peacefully in Gaza for Right to Return

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – As an unprecedented 40,000 Palestinians in Gaza marched for the right to return, marking the one-year anniversary of the beginning […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
Global Heating Helped Cause the Massive Midwest Floods but TV Didn't Tell you That

Global Heating Helped Cause the Massive Midwest Floods but TV Didn’t Tell you That

Climate change is likely to cause a disproportionate increase in heavy precipitation events in the Midwest, a trend that is already apparent

The Conversation

Democratic Socialism
Bring Back Eisenhower Socialism

Bring Back Eisenhower Socialism

Conservative demagogues aim to scare you into embracing their pro-plutocrat agenda as the only tolerable choice

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Arab World
Arab World Warms to Russia after Trump gives Syria's Golan to Israel

Arab World Warms to Russia after Trump gives Syria’s Golan to Israel

“We appreciate the Russian position on the Jerusalem and Golan files. This position is consistent and based on the need to abide by international law, norms and standards.”

Middle East Monitor

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75% of Scotland's Electricity Now Green; & All Cars Electric by 2032

75% of Scotland’s Electricity Now Green; & All Cars Electric by 2032

Scotland is also doing groundbreaking research and development on wave and tidal energy

Juan Cole

Climate Change
Ocean Heat hits Record High, in Bad News for Planet

Ocean Heat hits Record High, in Bad News for Planet

The thermal expansion — water swelling as it warms — is expected to raise sea levels 12 inches

AFP

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