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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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Is Saudi Crown Prince's 'Recognition' of Israel anything New or Positive?

Is Saudi Crown Prince’s ‘Recognition’ of Israel anything New or Positive?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Former Israeli prison guard at the notorious Ktzi’ot Prison camp for Palestinians and now editor-in-chief of […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Israel: Massacre of Palestinian Protesters in Gaza was a Calculated War Crime (HRW)

Israel: Massacre of Palestinian Protesters in Gaza was a Calculated War Crime (HRW)

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Donald Trump and the Art of the Arms Deal (for Everyone)

Donald Trump and the Art of the Arms Deal (for Everyone)

By William D. Hartung | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – It’s one of those stories of the century that somehow never gets treated that way. […]

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Tens of Thousands Actually dead in Saudi War on Yemen

Tens of Thousands Actually dead in Saudi War on Yemen

By Helen Lackner | (OpenDemocracy.net) | – – . . . [Saudi Crown Prince] Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) was the brain behind the coalition originally […]

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Saudi Arabia
Spanish Activists to Kick Out Saudi Ship Loading Weapons for Yemen War

Spanish Activists to Kick Out Saudi Ship Loading Weapons for Yemen War

TeleSur | – – The Bahri Hofuf ship was already kicked out of Bilbao, but sneaked into Santander. In the first days of March, a […]

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Shooting Protesters in Cold Blood: How Israel became a Typical Middle Eastern Dictatorship

Shooting Protesters in Cold Blood: How Israel became a Typical Middle Eastern Dictatorship

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Israeli army snipers who were ordered to shoot unarmed Palestinian protesters last Friday at the […]

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Climate Change
How to Survive Climate Change: Learn from Puerto Ricans & Hurricane Maria

How to Survive Climate Change: Learn from Puerto Ricans & Hurricane Maria

By Jane Palmer | ( Mosaic) | – – The rest of the world can learn from Puerto Rican communities rallying together to recover from […]

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Donald Trump
As N. Korea Summit Looms, Trump's New Security team are hardly Diplomats

As N. Korea Summit Looms, Trump’s New Security team are hardly Diplomats

By Christopher R. Hill | (Project Syndicate) | – – While Mike Pompeo and John Bolton have shown that they can communicate with Donald Trump, […]

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Christianity
Pope, after Gaza violence, says ‘defenceless’ being killed in Holy Land

Pope, after Gaza violence, says ‘defenceless’ being killed in Holy Land

Middle East Monitor | – – Pope Francis, in his Easter address on Sunday, called for peace in the Holy Land two days after 15 […]

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