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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!)

12/17/2025 By Tomdispatch

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Israeli Crowds go to the Streets to Rally for and against Indicted PM Netanyahu

Israeli Crowds go to the Streets to Rally for and against Indicted PM Netanyahu

Tel Aviv (AFP) – Opponents and supporters of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took to the streets Saturday evening after the country’s attorney general said […]

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Green Transportation
Desperate European Automakers going Electric to Survive: Geneva Auto Show

Desperate European Automakers going Electric to Survive: Geneva Auto Show

The models going on show in Geneva reflect industry concerns, with a wide range of concept electric vehicles on display

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Vile Racism in W. Va. GOP: Rep. Ilhan Omar likened to al-Qaeda & LGBTQ Folks to KKK

Vile Racism in W. Va. GOP: Rep. Ilhan Omar likened to al-Qaeda & LGBTQ Folks to KKK

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Republicans in the West Virginia state legislature held a “GOP takes the Rotunda” event at the state capitol on Friday. […]

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Latin America
Venezuela crisis: Trump threats to Maduro evoke bloody history of US intervention in Latin America

Venezuela crisis: Trump threats to Maduro evoke bloody history of US intervention in Latin America

Rather than plan yet another coup d’etat, U.S. efforts in Venezuela should support the work of the Lima Group

The Conversation

Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia to Put Detained Women Activists on Trial

Saudi Arabia to Put Detained Women Activists on Trial

Riyadh (AFP) – Saudi women activists detained last year in a sweeping crackdown on campaigners will be put on trial, state media said Friday. “The […]

AFP

Israel/ Palestine
Do Israel Pharmaceutical Firms Test Medicines on Palestinian Prisoners?

Do Israel Pharmaceutical Firms Test Medicines on Palestinian Prisoners?

Last week, Israeli authorities refused to hand over the body of Fares Baroud

Middle East Monitor

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Netanyahu to be Indicted on Bribery, Fraud, Press Tampering: Israeli AG

Netanyahu to be Indicted on Bribery, Fraud, Press Tampering: Israeli AG

Netanyahu’s thuggish threats and sweetheart deals to manipulate press coverage of himself are on top of all that

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Climate Change
Could the Climate Crisis End America's Global Dominion?

Could the Climate Crisis End America’s Global Dominion?

Humanity has just 12 years left to cut carbon emissions by a striking 45% or the world’s temperature would rise by at least 1.5 degrees Celsius

Alfred W. McCoy

Israel/ Palestine
Israel Broke Int’l Law, Likely Committed War Crimes, Shooting 6,000 Gaza Protesters: UN

Israel Broke Int’l Law, Likely Committed War Crimes, Shooting 6,000 Gaza Protesters: UN

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A United Nations (UN) probe said, on Thursday, that Israeli security forces may have committed war crimes killing scores of Palestinians and […]

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