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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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Billionaire Wilbur Ross on Unpaid Fed Workers:  "Let them Eat Debt!"

Billionaire Wilbur Ross on Unpaid Fed Workers: “Let them Eat Debt!”

By Chris Lefkow | – Washington, D.C. (AFP) – Donald Trump’s billionaire commerce secretary fueled accusations Thursday that the US administration was deaf to the […]

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Syria
With Trump out, Putin and Turkey's Erdogan Carve up Syria

With Trump out, Putin and Turkey’s Erdogan Carve up Syria

Moscow plans to organise a three-way summit with Turkey and Iran early this year

AFP

Israel/ Palestine
MESA: Israeli Arrests of Palestinian Students and Professors, Israeli Assaults on Palestinian Campuses

MESA: Israeli Arrests of Palestinian Students and Professors, Israeli Assaults on Palestinian Campuses

The attacks, assaults, and detentions described above are grave violations of basic rights to education and academic freedom.

Judith E. Tucker

Far Right
White Terrorists who Pled Guilty to Bombing Minnesota Mosque Wanted to Build Trump's Wall

White Terrorists who Pled Guilty to Bombing Minnesota Mosque Wanted to Build Trump’s Wall

The wall would be “a powerful architectural statement of the determination of the American people to defend their nation and its Anglo-Saxon heritage”

AFP

Donald Trump
Trump as Hostage-Taker in Chief: From Congress to Cohen to Migrant Children

Trump as Hostage-Taker in Chief: From Congress to Cohen to Migrant Children

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – I argued when Trump was sworn in that his regime represented a new form of government, psychopathocracy— a government without […]

Juan Cole

Saudi Arabia
From Rights Abuses to Yemen War Crimes, Saudi Can't Escape Spotlight

From Rights Abuses to Yemen War Crimes, Saudi Can’t Escape Spotlight

New Human Rights Watch Report out Now

Human Rights Watch

Climate Change
Climate Stress drove Wave of Arab Spring Refugees

Climate Stress drove Wave of Arab Spring Refugees

Severe droughts made more likely by global warming worsened conflict in Arab Spring countries, forcing people to flee

Middle East Monitor

Immigration
US Uses Migrant Children as 'Bait' to Catch Sponsors: Lawsuit

US Uses Migrant Children as ‘Bait’ to Catch Sponsors: Lawsuit

Some 10,000 migrant children being held in Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) shelters are being denied due process rights as asylum seekers, the lawsuit argues. […]

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Syria
Not with a Bang but a Whimper: Last Village of ISIL “Caliphate” falls to Syrian Kurds

Not with a Bang but a Whimper: Last Village of ISIL “Caliphate” falls to Syrian Kurds

Beirut (AFP) – Kurdish-led fighters overran the last village held by the Islamic State group in Syria on Wednesday, confining its once vast cross-border “caliphate” […]

AFP

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