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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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The Geopolitics of Walls: The Sense of Security is an Illusion

The Geopolitics of Walls: The Sense of Security is an Illusion

The wall addresses a core psychological insecurity. Trump supporters — and many others — feel as if their own privileges are evaporating.

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Capitalism vs. Socialism Is a False Choice:  We need true democracy  to Avoid self-extinction.

Capitalism vs. Socialism Is a False Choice: We need true democracy to Avoid self-extinction.

( Yes! Magazine) – Economic power is—and always has been—the foundation of political power. Those who control the peoples’ means of living rule. In a […]

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Iran
40 Years after the Iranian Revolution, Can the Opposition Still Hope for Change?

40 Years after the Iranian Revolution, Can the Opposition Still Hope for Change?

All opposition groups overuse the abstract notion of “secular democracy” without clearly explaining what exactly they have in mind

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Trump's Attempt to Strongarm Europe on Iran Crashes and Burns

Trump’s Attempt to Strongarm Europe on Iran Crashes and Burns

The agreement “is a basic pillar of the architecture of nuclear non-proliferation at the global level”

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
European Union has Documented Israeli War Crimes, but When Will it Punish Them?

European Union has Documented Israeli War Crimes, but When Will it Punish Them?

By Kamel Hawwash | – The lack of action to bring Israel to account for more than seven decades’ worth of crimes against the Palestinian […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
Democracy and the Green New Deal Demand higher Taxes on Rich

Democracy and the Green New Deal Demand higher Taxes on Rich

Tie the U.S. corporate tax rate to the ratio between CEO and worker pay

Sam Pizzigati

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Troops in Palestine Detained over 500 Palestinians, including 89 Children

Israeli Troops in Palestine Detained over 500 Palestinians, including 89 Children

This brings the number of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons to around 5,700 including 48 women and 230 children under 18.

Maan News Agency

Environment
Trump's Wall an Ugly Scar Across Hot Zone of Biological Diversity, Threatening Endangered Species

Trump’s Wall an Ugly Scar Across Hot Zone of Biological Diversity, Threatening Endangered Species

Prevents migration of ringtail cats, bighorn sheep, kit foxes, and Mexican gray wolves

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
School Climate Strikes: Children taking Radical Action and "Adults" have no Right to Object

School Climate Strikes: Children taking Radical Action and “Adults” have no Right to Object

Our inaction that has led the world they will inherit to this pretty pass

The Conversation

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