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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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Repression of Climate and Environmental Protest is intensifying across the World

Repression of Climate and Environmental Protest is intensifying across the World

By Oscar Berglund, University of Bristol and Tie Franco Brotto, University of Bristol (The Conversation) – Climate and environmental protest is being criminalised and repressed […]

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The Great Sufi Qushayri on “Responding to Evil with the Greatest Good” (Peace on Earth, Good Will toward Men in Islam)

The Great Sufi Qushayri on “Responding to Evil with the Greatest Good” (Peace on Earth, Good Will toward Men in Islam)

In honor of the season’s ‘Peace on Earth, Good Will toward Men”

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Palestinian Christians call on Western Churches to ‘Humanize’ the Children of Gaza

Palestinian Christians call on Western Churches to ‘Humanize’ the Children of Gaza

By Jane Barter, University of Winnipeg (The Conversation) – The human rights group, Amnesty International, recently issued a report concluding that Israel’s actions in Gaza […]

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Israel invades and Occupies more of Syria, as World stands By

Israel invades and Occupies more of Syria, as World stands By

( Code Pink ) – The United States, Turkey and Israel all responded to the fall of the Assad government in Damascus by launching bombing […]

Nicolas J. S. Davies

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Pope Francis: “I Think of Gaza, of so much Cruelty, of the Children Machine-Gunned”

Pope Francis: “I Think of Gaza, of so much Cruelty, of the Children Machine-Gunned”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On the Sunday before Christmas, Pope Francis said, “May the weapons be silenced and Christmas carols resound!” according to Kristina […]

Juan Cole

Libya
Russia Moving Military Assets To Africa After Syria Setback

Russia Moving Military Assets To Africa After Syria Setback

By Maja Zivanovic and Jean Fernand Koena ( RFE/RL ) – Russia is reducing its military footprint in Syria and shifting some of its assets from […]

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Climate Crisis
Climate Change Taking the World’s Four Legacy Empires Down:

Climate Change Taking the World’s Four Legacy Empires Down:

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Some 2,000 years ago, an itinerant preacher, Saul of Tarsus, was writing to a wayward congregation in Corinth, Greece. Curiously enough, […]

Alfred W. McCoy

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Irony is Dead: Netanyahu cannot Attend Auschwitz Ceremony for Fear of Arrest on ICC Warrant for War Crimes

Irony is Dead: Netanyahu cannot Attend Auschwitz Ceremony for Fear of Arrest on ICC Warrant for War Crimes

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not be able to travel to Poland […]

Juan Cole

Hizbullah
Iran’s Axis Crumbles as Hezbollah Falters and Assad Falls.

Iran’s Axis Crumbles as Hezbollah Falters and Assad Falls.

Iran faces a sobering recalibration of its regional ambitions

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