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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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Why are only tinpot War Criminals Punished?  What about the Architects of the Iraq War?

Why are only tinpot War Criminals Punished? What about the Architects of the Iraq War?

By Peter Singer | (Project Syndicate) | – – It is unlikely that former US President George W. Bush or any member of his administration […]

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Islam
Peace in Islam:  Qur’an 73:10 on Patience as Tolerance

Peace in Islam: Qur’an 73:10 on Patience as Tolerance

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Chapter 73 of the Qur’an, “The Robed” (Al-Muzammil), contains what is probably the earliest Islamic injunction to turn the other […]

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Trump on Syria Chem Attack: Putin responsible for supporting "Animal Assad"

Trump on Syria Chem Attack: Putin responsible for supporting “Animal Assad”

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – On Sunday, Trump responded to the use by the Syrian regime of a chlorine-filled barrel bomb […]

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Yemen
Yemen War: Do We Americans bear a Responsibility to Halt it?

Yemen War: Do We Americans bear a Responsibility to Halt it?

By Olivia Alperstein | (Otherwords.org) | – – American taxpayers are helping to fight someone else’s war in Yemen, and the blood is on our […]

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Syria
Russia says Syrian rebels to be brought out of Douma

Russia says Syrian rebels to be brought out of Douma

Middle East Monitor | – – Russia’s military said an operation would begin on Sunday to bring fighters of the Jaish al-Islam rebel group out […]

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Petroleum
Why Electric Cars are Better:  Massive Keystone Pipeline Oil Leak Twice as bad as Thought

Why Electric Cars are Better: Massive Keystone Pipeline Oil Leak Twice as bad as Thought

TeleSur | – – The spill gave further ammunition to environmental groups and other U.S. opponents of another pipeline the company has proposed, the long-delayed […]

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Syrian Regime kills dozens in Chem attack on Douma Holdout Enclave: Why?

Syrian Regime kills dozens in Chem attack on Douma Holdout Enclave: Why?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Saudi-backed fundamentalist militia “Army of Islam” in the Douma district of East Ghouta near Damascus […]

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Qatar
Geographical Warfare?: Saudi plans to make Qatar an Island

Geographical Warfare?: Saudi plans to make Qatar an Island

By Daniel Martin Varisco | (MENA Tidningen) | – – On June 5, 2016 Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain began a boycott of its […]

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Syria
Kurds of Afrin looted by Turkey-backed Arab Militias, as Syria blocks Kurdish Exodus

Kurds of Afrin looted by Turkey-backed Arab Militias, as Syria blocks Kurdish Exodus

Human Rights Watch | – – Turkish-Allied Groups Loot, Destroy People’s Property (Beirut) – Syrian government forces are blocking some civilians fleeing the Turkish-led military […]

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