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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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Somehow Despite Trump “Tax Cut,” GM to fire 15% of Workers, Shutter Plants

Somehow Despite Trump “Tax Cut,” GM to fire 15% of Workers, Shutter Plants

Sen. Sherrod Brown said, “The company reaped a massive tax break from GOP tax bill and failed to invest that money in American jobs,.”

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UAE
Emirates Bows to Int’l Pressure, Releases Jailed UK Ph.D. Student

Emirates Bows to Int’l Pressure, Releases Jailed UK Ph.D. Student

Hunt said on BBC radio of the spying charges: “We have never seen any evidence that they are true”

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Corruption
‘Blue Wave’ Dems in House to Probe Trump Money ties to Saudis & Russians

‘Blue Wave’ Dems in House to Probe Trump Money ties to Saudis & Russians

Adam Schiff accused Trump of being “dishonest” about role of Saudi Crown Prince bin Salman in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi

AFP

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We can Break Saudi Arabia's Hold over the US by Driving Electric Cars

We can Break Saudi Arabia’s Hold over the US by Driving Electric Cars

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump has openly and consistently given Saudi control of oil prices as the reason for which he doesn’t want to […]

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Syrian Kurdish Women March to End Gender-Based Violence

Syrian Kurdish Women March to End Gender-Based Violence

“Women must organise and reach decision-making positions”

AFP

Climate Change
Climate Crisis:  Wildfire Smoke is Becoming Nationwide Health Threat

Climate Crisis: Wildfire Smoke is Becoming Nationwide Health Threat

By Richard E. Peltier | – (The Conversation) – The impacts of recent forest fires in California reach well beyond the burned areas. Smoke from […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Squatters in West Bank uproot 1,000 Palestinian Olive Trees a Month (800,000 since 1967)

Israeli Squatters in West Bank uproot 1,000 Palestinian Olive Trees a Month (800,000 since 1967)

Israeli settlers uprooted dozens of olive trees, on Saturday, near Turmusayya village near Ramallah

Maan News Agency

Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia: Free Dr. Hatoon al-Fassi

Saudi Arabia: Free Dr. Hatoon al-Fassi

His Majesty King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud King of Saudi Arabia and Custodian of the two Holy Mosques Fax: (via Ministry of the Interior) […]

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India Doubles Iran Oil Imports: Are Trump's Sanctions Cratering?

India Doubles Iran Oil Imports: Are Trump’s Sanctions Cratering?

China is also resuming imports from Iran

Juan Cole

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