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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’s bombing of Gaza caused untold environmental Damage − Can it Recover?

Israel’s bombing of Gaza caused untold environmental Damage − Can it Recover?

By Lesley Joseph, University of South Carolina (The Conversation) – The war in Gaza has come with an awful cost. Tens of thousands of Palestinian […]

The Conversation

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How the Warfare State Paved the Way for a Trumpist Autocracy

How the Warfare State Paved the Way for a Trumpist Autocracy

By Norman Solomon ( Tomdispatch.com) – Donald Trump’s power has thrived on the economics, politics, and culture of war. The runaway militarism of the last […]

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Germany: A Not-So-Green Departing Government, A Future Coalition even Less Ambitious on Climate?

Germany: A Not-So-Green Departing Government, A Future Coalition even Less Ambitious on Climate?

Zwickau/Munich (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) –– When Germans voted in a national election in September 2021, 33% of the population considered that the environment […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Israel’s West Bank Offensive looks very much like a Prelude to Annexation

Israel’s West Bank Offensive looks very much like a Prelude to Annexation

by Rabia Ali ( Middle East Monitor ) – As its armed forces intensify their assault on the northern West Bank, concerns are mounting over […]

Middle East Monitor

Israel
Israel escalates strikes in Syria amid post-Assad transition: A pattern of regional expansion

Israel escalates strikes in Syria amid post-Assad transition: A pattern of regional expansion

Written byWalid El Houri ( Globalvoices.org ) – On February 25, 2025, as Syria’s new government convened a national dialogue to chart the nation’s future […]

Global Voices

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Should Biden, Blinken, Austin and Trump be tried at the Hague for Gaza Genocide?

Should Biden, Blinken, Austin and Trump be tried at the Hague for Gaza Genocide?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The civil society human rights NGO DAWN (Democracy for the Arab World Now) has submitted a detailed filing to the […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Why Trump’s Gaza “Reconstruction Proposal” is Doomed to Failure

Why Trump’s Gaza “Reconstruction Proposal” is Doomed to Failure

By Ali Asgary, York University, Canada There have been many conversations around U.S. President Donald Trump’s Gaza proposal to permanently displace Palestinians from Gaza to […]

The Conversation

African-Americans
Surviving Hard Times: The Last Generation of Black Americans under Jim Crow and the Culture of Racism in America

Surviving Hard Times: The Last Generation of Black Americans under Jim Crow and the Culture of Racism in America

By Douglas H. White ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Today, racism remains a poisonous force in America. Fascism and authoritarianism are on the rise and President […]

Tomdispatch

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For First time, US is at 42% Zero Carbon Electricity, as Solar Surges by 49 GW

For First time, US is at 42% Zero Carbon Electricity, as Solar Surges by 49 GW

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Business Council for Sustainable Energy Factbook is out, and it has good news for the environment despite the dark […]

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