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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 Slashes more than $200 mn in Aid to Palestinians

Trump Slashes more than $200 mn in Aid to Palestinians

Washington (AFP) – The United States said Friday that it had canceled more than $200 million in aid for the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip […]

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With South Africa Conspiracy Theory, Trump is becoming Dylann Roof

With South Africa Conspiracy Theory, Trump is becoming Dylann Roof

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – White nationalist terrorist Dylann Roof, who murdered nine African-Americans in a church, including a sitting state senator, confessed himself deeply […]

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Donald Trump
Anti-Trumpism as a Global–and Domestic–Movement

Anti-Trumpism as a Global–and Domestic–Movement

( Tomdispatch.com ) – One thing already seems clear in the Trump era: the world will not turn out to be the American president’s playground. […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Gaza is Running out of Fuel, Medicine:  UN

Gaza is Running out of Fuel, Medicine: UN

United Nations (United States) (AFP) – The United Nations has run out of funding to pay for fuel needed for hospitals, water plants and other […]

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Israel/ Palestine
It Took Me Three Decades to Drive One Hour from Gaza to Jerusalem

It Took Me Three Decades to Drive One Hour from Gaza to Jerusalem

By Abier Almasri | – Traveling Under Occupation Almost Impossible for Palestinians Locked Inside Gaza Earlier this year, the Israeli army gave me a permit […]

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Int’l Court of Justice Hears Iran’s Suit against Trump’s Unilateral Sanctions

Int’l Court of Justice Hears Iran’s Suit against Trump’s Unilateral Sanctions

The Hague (AFP) – Iran’s legal challenge against renewed sanctions by the United States goes before the UN’s top court Monday, as Tehran seeks to […]

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Donald Trump
Is Trump's Fascism part of the Reason for Cohen's Willingness to Indict Him?

Is Trump’s Fascism part of the Reason for Cohen’s Willingness to Indict Him?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – I can only imagine that some Jewish and other minority members of the Trump administration experience significant discomfort at being […]

Juan Cole

Nonviolence
The Hidden Success of the 1928 Peace Pact

The Hidden Success of the 1928 Peace Pact

Dubuque ( Waging Nonviolence) – In August 1928, over a dozen countries gathered in Paris to sign the Peace Pact, also known in the United […]

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Sufism
Morocco’s Visitation of the Poor honors Sufi Muslim Saint

Morocco’s Visitation of the Poor honors Sufi Muslim Saint

by Hamza Mekouar | – Moulay Driss Zerhoun (Morocco) (AFP) – It’s dubbed the “pilgrimage of the poor” — every summer, tens of thousands of […]

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