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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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White Terrorist in Coast Guard who Plotted Mass Killings of Dems, Journalists is Arrested

White Terrorist in Coast Guard who Plotted Mass Killings of Dems, Journalists is Arrested

By Chris Lefkow | – Washington, DC (AFP) – A US Coast Guard officer who espoused white supremacist views and drafted a target list of […]

Chris Lefkow

Europe
Europe Rejects Trump’s demand they Take Back Captured ISIL Extremists

Europe Rejects Trump’s demand they Take Back Captured ISIL Extremists

The Kurds have warned the West that they lack the resources to ensure the foreign jihadists in their jails don’t escape

AFP

European Union
Morocco Produced 35% of its Electricity from Renewables in 2018

Morocco Produced 35% of its Electricity from Renewables in 2018

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Morocco produced 35% of its electricity last year from wind, solar, and hydroelectric sources, putting it on track to its […]

Juan Cole

Immigration
Defeating Fascism: What a Danish Woman Imam and Swiss Progressives can teach us

Defeating Fascism: What a Danish Woman Imam and Swiss Progressives can teach us

She used her networking skills to track down some of the extremist leaders of the anti-immigrant movement, then she went to see them.

George Lakey

Counter-Terrorism
Half a Million Dead, $5.9 Trillion Bill: The True Costs of US 'Global War on Terror'

Half a Million Dead, $5.9 Trillion Bill: The True Costs of US ‘Global War on Terror’

in the last two years, the U.S. has launched strikes in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen.

Stephanie Savell

Antisemitism
French Neo-Nazis Desecrate Jewish Cemetery with Swastikas in Alsace

French Neo-Nazis Desecrate Jewish Cemetery with Swastikas in Alsace

Strasbourg (AFP) – Around 80 graves have been daubed with swastikas at a Jewish cemetery in eastern France, local officials said, hours ahead of nationwide […]

AFP

Israel/ Palestine
John Legend: "For too long it has been out of balance for progressives to speak up for the rights of Palestinians"

John Legend: “For too long it has been out of balance for progressives to speak up for the rights of Palestinians”

“It means we see a young Palestinian kid not as a future security threat or demographic challenge, but as a future father, mother and lover.”

Maan News Agency

Donald Trump
Sleepwalking into our Constitutional Crisis in the Age of Trump

Sleepwalking into our Constitutional Crisis in the Age of Trump

As a historian of the Middle East, let me just point out that declaring a state of emergency is a means of creating a president for life

Juan Cole

nuclear weapons
Resetting the Nuclear Doomsday Clock

Resetting the Nuclear Doomsday Clock

In addition to the mini-nukes to be loaded onto missiles on nuclear subs, Trump is also advocating a modernized anti missile defense system

John Buell

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