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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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Trump's anti-Iran Warsaw Conference Collapsing, as Russia says Iran should have been Invited

Trump’s anti-Iran Warsaw Conference Collapsing, as Russia says Iran should have been Invited

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A couple of weeks ago, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced a conference on security in the Middle East for […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
With World on Precipice of Climate Catastrophe, US CO2 Emissions Skyrocketed in 2018

With World on Precipice of Climate Catastrophe, US CO2 Emissions Skyrocketed in 2018

By Abrahm Lustgarten | – ( ProPublica) – A report by a private research company found that U.S. emissions, which amount to one-sixth of the […]

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Children
Behold the Child: US is Complicit in Thousands of Minor Deaths in Yemen & other Killing Fields

Behold the Child: US is Complicit in Thousands of Minor Deaths in Yemen & other Killing Fields

Children around the world are suffering, increasingly unsafe, and preyed upon in ever larger numbers

Karen J. Greenberg

Democracy
Health, Poverty, Conflict in Charts: Is the World Better off Today than ever before in History?

Health, Poverty, Conflict in Charts: Is the World Better off Today than ever before in History?

By Julius Probst | – Swedish academic Hans Rosling has identified a worrying trend: not only do many people across advanced economies have no idea […]

The Conversation

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Copenhagen to be 1st Carbon Neutral City by 2025 and other Wind Energy Good News Stories

Copenhagen to be 1st Carbon Neutral City by 2025 and other Wind Energy Good News Stories

Some ten percent of greater Copenhagen’s households will be powered by wind turbines set up on 9 artificial islands off its coast

Juan Cole

Qur'an
The West Has Islam Dangerously Wrong

The West Has Islam Dangerously Wrong

Western accounts have discounted this emphasis that the Qur’an clearly has on peace-building, peace-making, striving against violent conflict.

Juan Cole

Morocco
Why do Protests Keep Happening in North Africa? It's "al-Hogra"

Why do Protests Keep Happening in North Africa? It’s “al-Hogra”

It is used as a vehicle for social mobilization around overlapping rights such as the right to work, to education, to health, to housing

Hsain Ilahiane

Climate Change
We’re on Course to Miss our “Best Chance” of Stopping Runaway Climate Change by 2020

We’re on Course to Miss our “Best Chance” of Stopping Runaway Climate Change by 2020

An analysis by the World Resources Institute showed that current efforts to limit temperature increases are falling well short.

AFP

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Snipers Killed 180, Injured 23,000 Gaza Protesters with Live Fire since March

Israeli Snipers Killed 180, Injured 23,000 Gaza Protesters with Live Fire since March

23,000 Palestinians were injured in 2018 during the March of Return protests including 5183 minor boys, 464 girls and 1437 women

Maan News Agency

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