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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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Top 7 Reasons Progressive Andrew Gillum can Defeat "Monkey it Up" DeSantis

Top 7 Reasons Progressive Andrew Gillum can Defeat “Monkey it Up” DeSantis

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Congressional representative and Florida gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis shocked the nation on Wednesday by warning Florida voters not to “monkey […]

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Iran
Israel Renews Threat to Attack Iran Targets in Syria

Israel Renews Threat to Attack Iran Targets in Syria

Jerusalem (AFP) – Israel on Wednesday renewed its threat to attack Iranian military targets in Syria, after the two Muslim allies signed an accord on […]

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“A Deadly Blow:” Why is Iran Persecuting and Killing Sufi Mystics?

“A Deadly Blow:” Why is Iran Persecuting and Killing Sufi Mystics?

Washington, D.C. (RFE/RL) – Thirty-three-year-old Mostafa Abdi, a member of Iran’s largest Sufi order and editor of a news outlet focused on the Gonabadi dervish […]

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Turkey
Turkey's big Problem isn't Collapsing Currency, but Lack of Democracy under Erdogan

Turkey’s big Problem isn’t Collapsing Currency, but Lack of Democracy under Erdogan

By Gary M. Grossman | – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is presiding over the damaging loss of value of the Turkish currency, the lira, […]

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Climate Change
Storm Death Toll in Puerto Rico Rivals 9/11: But where is War on Climate Change?

Storm Death Toll in Puerto Rico Rivals 9/11: But where is War on Climate Change?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A team of researchers at George Washington University has estimated that excess deaths of Americans in Puerto Rico during and […]

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Pollution
It's Official: Burning Coal, Auto Exhaust & Air Pollution Making us Stupid

It’s Official: Burning Coal, Auto Exhaust & Air Pollution Making us Stupid

(TeleSur) – Sam Myers said how we live has decreased the nutritional value of our staple food source, “putting our health at risk.” Increasing levels […]

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Iran
Iran Parliament rakes Pres. Rouhani over Coals on Economy as Centrists Weaken

Iran Parliament rakes Pres. Rouhani over Coals on Economy as Centrists Weaken

Tehran (AFP) – Iran’s parliament declared its dissatisfaction with President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday, voting to reject his answers after grilling him over the deteriorating […]

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Yemen
Yemen: Saudis, UAE, US and Houthis All Guilty of War Crimes – UN

Yemen: Saudis, UAE, US and Houthis All Guilty of War Crimes – UN

By Nina LARSON | – Geneva (AFP) – All sides in Yemen’s bloody conflict may have committed war crimes, UN investigators said Tuesday, highlighting deadly […]

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Muhammad and Islamic Peace Studies: Interview with Juan Cole

Muhammad and Islamic Peace Studies: Interview with Juan Cole

Author Juan Cole Detroit (World Religion News ) – Joseph Richard Preville, American Writer and Book Critic, interviews Juan Cole. Joseph Richard Preville: What problems […]

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