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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!)

12/17/2025 By Tomdispatch

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Is this America? Entire Island of Puerto Rico plunged into Darkness Again!

Is this America? Entire Island of Puerto Rico plunged into Darkness Again!

The Watchers: Watching the World Evolve and Transform | – – Posted by Matti K on April 18, 2018 The power grid has collapsed in […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Israel to French Mayor: You can’t visit Occupied Palestine if you stand against Occupation

Israel to French Mayor: You can’t visit Occupied Palestine if you stand against Occupation

TeleSur | – – Leclerc Patrice, a member of the French Communist Party, has been denied entry into Israel more than once for his support […]

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Education
Why do Red State Teachers need to Strike for a living Wage? It is about Class

Why do Red State Teachers need to Strike for a living Wage? It is about Class

By Steve Fraser | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – Teachers in red-state America are hard at work teaching us all a lesson. The American mythos […]

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Syria
With Turkish Troops in Syria, is Erdogan's Neo-Ottomanism a Diplomatic or Military Project?

With Turkish Troops in Syria, is Erdogan’s Neo-Ottomanism a Diplomatic or Military Project?

By Nicolai Due-Gundersen | (The Conversation) | – – On our third trip to Istanbul, my wife and I visited the 19th century Dolmabahce Palace, […]

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Donald Trump
Syria After Trump's Withdrawal: Top Reasons an "Arab Force" will Fail

Syria After Trump’s Withdrawal: Top Reasons an “Arab Force” will Fail

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – President Trump’s determination to withdraw US troops from eastern Syria by October, so that GOP candidates […]

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Corruption
The Hannity Case is so Serious it Requires a Consumer Boycott of his Advertisers

The Hannity Case is so Serious it Requires a Consumer Boycott of his Advertisers

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The problems at Fox Cable “News” go way beyond Sean Hannity. But he is a major […]

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Arab Americans
What People get wrong about Iranian-Americans (Looking at you, Mike Pompeo and John Bolton) (Video)

What People get wrong about Iranian-Americans (Looking at you, Mike Pompeo and John Bolton) (Video)

AJ+ | (Video News Clip) | – – “What do you think of when you hear “Persian” or “Iranian”? Iranian-Americans (aka Persians) break down common […]

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Guns
Growing up with Fear of Gun Violence in America: The Weaponization of Everyday Life

Growing up with Fear of Gun Violence in America: The Weaponization of Everyday Life

By Frida Berrigan | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – Guns. In a country with more than 300 million of them, a country that’s recently been […]

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Democracy
As Lebanon prepares to vote, Amnesty for the disenfranchised provokes Fierce Debate

As Lebanon prepares to vote, Amnesty for the disenfranchised provokes Fierce Debate

Haley Bobseine | (Informed Comment) | – – After almost a decade of multiple postponements stalling the national political process and depriving citizens of their […]

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