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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

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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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Israeli Marksmen continue to use Peaceful Palestinian Protesters in Gaza for Target Practice: 2 dead, 40 Wounded

Israeli Marksmen continue to use Peaceful Palestinian Protesters in Gaza for Target Practice: 2 dead, 40 Wounded

Over 30 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the “Great March of Return” protests began on March 30.

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Star Wars actor Natalie Portman cancels Award in Israel, hints Netanyahu has gone to the Dark Side

Star Wars actor Natalie Portman cancels Award in Israel, hints Netanyahu has gone to the Dark Side

Her decision showed extreme bravery.

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European Union
Iran formally switches from dollar to euro

Iran formally switches from dollar to euro

Middle East Monitor | – – Iran’s feud with the US is set to get worse after Tehran announced yesterday that it will start reporting […]

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Syria
Who has won the Syrian War in the wake of the fall of ISIL?

Who has won the Syrian War in the wake of the fall of ISIL?

Seyed Ali Alavi | ( OpenDemocracy.net) | – – ISIL may have been defeated, but the battle for Syria’s political soul is far from over. […]

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Acidification of Oceans
Like Eating Fish? Then buy an electric Car and put up Solar Panels

Like Eating Fish? Then buy an electric Car and put up Solar Panels

By Jefferson Keith Moore | (The Conversation) | – – Climate change is rapidly warming the Earth and altering ecosystems on land and at sea […]

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Israel Lobbies
Exposing Canary Mission’s campaign against Palestinian human Rights:  A Resource for College and University Leaders

Exposing Canary Mission’s campaign against Palestinian human Rights: A Resource for College and University Leaders

N.B. Yes, I have been smeared by this odious hate group, but there’s not much they can do to me. But they are trying to […]

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Friedman: Does Iran's Quds Force really Control four Countries and is Israel-Iran War Near?

Friedman: Does Iran’s Quds Force really Control four Countries and is Israel-Iran War Near?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Thomas Friedman’s column this week made several allegations about the danger of an explosive situation in […]

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Israel/ Palestine
‘Great March’ for Palestinian Refugees’ Right of Return Endures Bloody Crackdown

‘Great March’ for Palestinian Refugees’ Right of Return Endures Bloody Crackdown

By Joey Ayoub and Marwa Fatafta | ( GlobalVoices.org) | – – After months of preparing, tens of thousands of Palestinian protesters launched the “Great […]

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astronomy and outer space
Diamond rain in Sudan evidence of ‘lost planet,’ Arab Scientists Find

Diamond rain in Sudan evidence of ‘lost planet,’ Arab Scientists Find

Middle East Monitor | – – Diamonds from outer space formed inside a long-lost planet Diamonds found inside a meteorite which exploded over Sudan could […]

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