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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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Sweden's new Carbon Tax on Air Travel aims helping Environment

Sweden’s new Carbon Tax on Air Travel aims helping Environment

By Valéry Laramée de Tannenberg | EURACTIV.fr | translated by Freya Kirk | – – Sweden has introduced a new carbon tax. From 1 April, […]

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Israel/ Palestine
2 Dead, 30 wounded: Israeli troops again Fire on Peaceful Palestinian Protesters at Gaza Border

2 Dead, 30 wounded: Israeli troops again Fire on Peaceful Palestinian Protesters at Gaza Border

TeleSur | – – “I have no fear of dying because there is no life in Gaza,” one Palestinian told AFP. As Friday protests resumed […]

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Reality Show violence in the Age of Trump: Striking Syria

Reality Show violence in the Age of Trump: Striking Syria

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – President Trump along with allies British prime minister Theresa May and French president Emannuel Macron struck […]

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Russia, Iran and Syria respond to Trump's Threats

Russia, Iran and Syria respond to Trump’s Threats

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The UK-based Arabic language daily, al-Arabi al-Jadid (a secular, left-leaning newspaper helmed by Azmi Bishara from […]

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Syria
Syria: would a new foreign military intervention be legal?

Syria: would a new foreign military intervention be legal?

By James Sweeney | (The Conversation) | – – Just days after an alleged chemical attack killed and injured scores of civilians in Douma, Syria, […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Israel must hold killers of Reporter Yaser Murtaja in its own Military to account: CPJ

Israel must hold killers of Reporter Yaser Murtaja in its own Military to account: CPJ

Committee to Protect Journalists | – – Beirut–The Committee to Protect Journalists has condemned comments by Israel’s defense minister over the weekend that appear to […]

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Top 5 Lessons from the History of America’s Defeats

Top 5 Lessons from the History of America’s Defeats

By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – The lessons of history? Who needs them? Certainly not Washington’s present cast of characters, a […]

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Why Trump can't reverse Syrian regime dirty win in Ghouta & why Iran is Gloating

Why Trump can’t reverse Syrian regime dirty win in Ghouta & why Iran is Gloating

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Trump administration and the May government in the UK seem poised to launch missile strikes […]

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Plutocracy
Ryan steps down, with Lifetime dream of transferring Trillions from People to Super-Rich Fulfilled

Ryan steps down, with Lifetime dream of transferring Trillions from People to Super-Rich Fulfilled

By Jake Johnson, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org ) | – – Having successfully rammed through tax legislation that massively rewards America’s billionaires—including his long-time […]

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