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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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Trump: SecDef Mattis, ‘Sort of a Democrat’ Could be Leaving Cabinet

By Jim MANNION | – (AFP) – US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis “could be” leaving the cabinet post, US President Donald Trump says US Defense […]

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Could Deb Haaland be the First Native American Woman in Congress?

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Iran:  Khashoggi was Murdered because West Shielded Saudis from Criticism

Iran: Khashoggi was Murdered because West Shielded Saudis from Criticism

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment): According to the invaluable BBC Monitoring press surveys of Middle Eastern newspapers, the coverage of the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal […]

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With Rich pro-Carbon, only empowered Workers can Stop Climate Armageddon

The global reaction to two landmark new reports suggests the world could well lose that confrontation.

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Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Squatters throw rocks on car of Palestinian Woman, Killing Her

Israeli Squatters throw rocks on car of Palestinian Woman, Killing Her

Ramallah (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) – A Palestinian woman died of her wounds after Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank threw stones at the car […]

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Saudi Arabia
Turkey: Saudis “Not Cooperating” on Khashoggi Probe; Trump Threatens Riyadh

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Istanbul (AFP) – Turkey on Saturday accused Saudi Arabia of failing to cooperate with a probe into the disappearance of a journalist inside its Istanbul […]

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Climate Change
Future of Climate Activism: Dutch Court orders Gov't to Reduce CO2 Emissions Dramatically

Future of Climate Activism: Dutch Court orders Gov’t to Reduce CO2 Emissions Dramatically

An appeals court in the Netherlands has upheld a 2015 lower court ruling in a class action case that the Dutch government needs to do […]

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Saudi Arabia
Saudi Media Meet Collapses after Khashoggi Murder, but Trump Wants Business

Saudi Media Meet Collapses after Khashoggi Murder, but Trump Wants Business

By Clare BYRNE and Fabien ZAMORA | – Paris (AFP) – Donald Trump claims he is being “very tough” with Saudi Arabia and Britain has […]

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Yemen: Saudi-led War, Climate Change Creating Disastrous Water Shortage

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By Romy Haber | – ( Global Voices Online) – Yemen, the stage of one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world, is facing […]

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