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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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Saudi High Command fired by King over Yemen Quagmire

Saudi High Command fired by King over Yemen Quagmire

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Saudi cabinet, chaired by King Salman, on Monday evening fired army chief of staff and […]

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A School Shooting's (Ir)rational Victims

A School Shooting’s (Ir)rational Victims

By Michael Slager | (Informed Comment) | – – The mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where a former student gunned down 15 […]

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The "Iran deal": when American and Iranian arch-conservatives are on the same side

The “Iran deal”: when American and Iranian arch-conservatives are on the same side

By Kourosh Ziabari | (OpenDemocracy.net) The domestic critics of the Iran deal and its Republican misanthropists in the United States are making a similar mistake. […]

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Anger as Israel begins deportation of African Refugees

Anger as Israel begins deportation of African Refugees

By Tanja R. Müller | (The Conversation) | – – Around 20,000 Israelis and African migrants took to the streets in Tel Aviv on February […]

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Europe's big Plans for Iran Trade announce Independence from Trump's Washington

Europe’s big Plans for Iran Trade announce Independence from Trump’s Washington

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Despite the significant economic problems Iran faces, and despite the real problems in unequal income distribution, […]

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Dr. Strangelove in the 21st Century: Trump’s Pentagon lowers Nuclear Threshold

Dr. Strangelove in the 21st Century: Trump’s Pentagon lowers Nuclear Threshold

( Tomdispatch.com) – If you’re having trouble sleeping thanks to, well, you know who… you’re not alone. But don’t despair. A breakthrough remedy has just […]

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Could Trump's Fragile Ego spark Korean or Iran War?

Could Trump’s Fragile Ego spark Korean or Iran War?

By Bandy X. Lee and Jeffrey D. Sachs | (Project Syndicate) | – – Donald Trump is not the first leader with a severe personality […]

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Priests close Church of Holy Sepulchre over Israeli "attack on Christians"

Priests close Church of Holy Sepulchre over Israeli “attack on Christians”

Middle East Monitor | – – Church leaders in Jerusalem shut the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Sunday in protest at a new Israeli […]

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UN Security Council calls for 30-Day Ceasefire in Syria's East Ghouta

UN Security Council calls for 30-Day Ceasefire in Syria’s East Ghouta

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The United Nations Security Council finally passed a resolution calling for a 30-day ceasefire between the […]

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