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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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Islam: The Essence of the Qur’an is Compassionate Love: Qur’an 90

Islam: The Essence of the Qur’an is Compassionate Love: Qur’an 90

An early chapter of the Qur’an is 90, “The City.” It contrasts the wealthy elite of Mecca in western Arabia in the 610s of the […]

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Yes, Sen. Lindsey Graham, You have Iranian Ancestry and should be Proud

Yes, Sen. Lindsey Graham, You have Iranian Ancestry and should be Proud

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Sen. Lindsay Graham joked on Fox Cable News that he might do a genetic test to see if he has […]

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Yemen
Kashoggi, Yemen and the War on Journalism

Kashoggi, Yemen and the War on Journalism

(MENA Tidningen) – For the past week, the news cycle on the Middle East has been focused, for obvious reasons, on the murder of the […]

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Israeli Eviction Occupied Khan al-Ahmar Residents is a War Crime: Int’l Court

Israeli Eviction Occupied Khan al-Ahmar Residents is a War Crime: Int’l Court

Extensive destruction of property without military necessity and population transfers in an occupied territory constitute war crimes under the Rome Statute

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Israel/ Palestine
UN elevates State of Palestine to Chair of Group of 77

UN elevates State of Palestine to Chair of Group of 77

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Palestine’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, hailed as “a new victory” the UN General Assembly vote in favor of […]

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Elizabeth Warren
Dear Elizabeth Warren: Run for President, Challenge the Blob and End the Wars

Dear Elizabeth Warren: Run for President, Challenge the Blob and End the Wars

Boston (Tomdispatch.com) | – Senator Elizabeth Warren 317 Hart Senate Office Building Washington, D.C. Dear Senator Warren: As a constituent, I have noted with interest […]

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Why a US Divorce from Saudi Arabia would be Good for Us and Them

Why a US Divorce from Saudi Arabia would be Good for Us and Them

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Voices from the Right wing, prominently featured in Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal, are warning that the grisly murder of […]

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censorship
University of Michigan Professor Disciplined for Refusing to Write Student Recommendation Letter

University of Michigan Professor Disciplined for Refusing to Write Student Recommendation Letter

October 16, 2018 Committee on Academic Freedom Middle East Studies Association of North America ­­Elizabeth R. Cole Interim Dean College of Literature, Science and the […]

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Top US Senators  Call for Ouster of Saudi’s Bin Salman over Murder

Top US Senators Call for Ouster of Saudi’s Bin Salman over Murder

Washington (AFP) – An influential US Senate ally of President Donald Trump pledged Tuesday that Congress would take decisive action against Saudi Arabia over a […]

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