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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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Climate Change
European colonisation of the Americas killed 10% of world population and caused global cooling

European colonisation of the Americas killed 10% of world population and caused global cooling

Our new data-driven best estimate is a death toll of 56 million by the beginning of the 1600s

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European Union
Europe declares independence of Trump, Creates Channel for Iran Trade

Europe declares independence of Trump, Creates Channel for Iran Trade

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In what French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian called “an important geo-political gesture,” France, Germany and the UK have swung […]

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Islamophobia
GOP Rep's Tweet seen as Racist toward Muslim-American Congresswoman (Young Turks)

GOP Rep’s Tweet seen as Racist toward Muslim-American Congresswoman (Young Turks)

Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian | The Young Turks | – The Young Turks: “Republican’s Tweet seeen as Racist On Twitter” Lee Zeldin let his […]

The Young Turks

Drugs
Not at the Border: The Real Nat'l Emergency is People Dying of Opioids

Not at the Border: The Real Nat’l Emergency is People Dying of Opioids

Since 1999, 400,000 Americans have died from overdoses of opioids, including legally prescribed ones

Rajan Menon

Israel/ Palestine
UN: Israeli Forces’ Violence Interfering in Palestinian Children’s Safe Access to Education

UN: Israeli Forces’ Violence Interfering in Palestinian Children’s Safe Access to Education

More than half of the verified incidents involved live ammunition, tear gas, and stun grenades fired into or near schools by Israeli Forces

Maan News Agency

Saudi Arabia
Top Ten Reasons Saudi Women are Running away from their Country

Top Ten Reasons Saudi Women are Running away from their Country

Rampant Discrimination, Abuse

Human Rights Watch

Featured
Trump Explodes at CIA over Iran: "Naive and Passive," "Go Back to School!"

Trump Explodes at CIA over Iran: “Naive and Passive,” “Go Back to School!”

Coats: “We continue to assess that Iran is not currently undertaking the key nuclear weapons-development activities.”

Juan Cole

Yemen
UN: Saudi-Led War on Yemen has Killed 6,700 Children, Left 358,000 Severely Malnourished

UN: Saudi-Led War on Yemen has Killed 6,700 Children, Left 358,000 Severely Malnourished

Child victims require “immediate treatment.”

Middle East Monitor

Israel/ Palestine
Israel Orders School Razed, Halt to Construction of Homes in Hebron, Palestine

Israel Orders School Razed, Halt to Construction of Homes in Hebron, Palestine

Israeli authorities seek to displace Masafer Yatta residents, in order to seize their lands

Maan News Agency

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