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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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With Trump AWOL, Europe Woos Mideast, fearing Russian & Chinese Dominance

With Trump AWOL, Europe Woos Mideast, fearing Russian & Chinese Dominance

“We don’t want to see this vacuum soaked up by Russia and China,

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Israel/ Palestine
A Teenage War Resister in Israel: An Antiwar Story from the Embattled Middle East

A Teenage War Resister in Israel: An Antiwar Story from the Embattled Middle East

By Rory Fanning | – (Tomdispatch.com) – Hilel Garmi’s phone is going straight to voicemail and all I’m hoping is that he’s not back in […]

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Can AIPAC sell Netanyahu's Kahanist Terrorists to Middle America?

Can AIPAC sell Netanyahu’s Kahanist Terrorists to Middle America?

The Israel lobbies demand silence from Americans and now are even attempting to deep-six the First Amendment by more or less outlawing BDS

Juan Cole

Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders returns Palestine to the Center of Political Debate in the US

Bernie Sanders returns Palestine to the Center of Political Debate in the US

Sanders rightly described the Senate anti-BDS bill as “absurd”

Middle East Monitor

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Snipers Kill 15-year-old Peaceful Protester, Wound 41, as Crowds Mourn

Israeli Snipers Kill 15-year-old Peaceful Protester, Wound 41, as Crowds Mourn

Mourners repeated slogans condemning Israeli crimes, especially against children

Maan News Agency

Donald Trump
Mueller: Former Trump Campaign Chief Broke Law ‘Repeatedly & Brazenly’

Mueller: Former Trump Campaign Chief Broke Law ‘Repeatedly & Brazenly’

District Judge Jackson agreed that Manafort had “intentionally” lied to investigators about his contacts with Russian operative Kilimnik

AFP

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Leftist Syrian Kurds Rejoice that Trump will Keep Hundreds of US Troops in Syria

Leftist Syrian Kurds Rejoice that Trump will Keep Hundreds of US Troops in Syria

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The left wing Democratic Union Party of Kurds in Northeast Syria and its paramilitary, the People’s Protection Units (YPG), warmly […]

Juan Cole

Saudi Arabia
Who Was Behind the Plan to Give Saudi Arabia Nuclear Power, and What Was Their Agenda? — “Trump, Inc.” Extra

Who Was Behind the Plan to Give Saudi Arabia Nuclear Power, and What Was Their Agenda? — “Trump, Inc.” Extra

By Charles Herman (Propublica) – For a year, “Trump, Inc.” has been digging into the 2017 inauguration. That reporting led us to look closely at […]

ProPublica

Climate Change
Marshall Islands Consider Radical Measures to Survive Fossil Fuel-driven Rising Seas

Marshall Islands Consider Radical Measures to Survive Fossil Fuel-driven Rising Seas

It will involve selecting islands to raise, add to, or build upon

AFP

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