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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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Scrutiny as $300 mn Puerto Rico bid goes to Trump-linked Firm w/ 2 Employees

Scrutiny as $300 mn Puerto Rico bid goes to Trump-linked Firm w/ 2 Employees

By Julia Conley, staff writer. | ( Commondreams.org) | – – Tiny company financed by a major donor to the Trump campaign and the Republican […]

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Top 7 ways Saudi could learn from Qatar about Moderate Islam

Top 7 ways Saudi could learn from Qatar about Moderate Islam

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Saudi Crown prince Mohammad Bin Salman has announced that he wants to take his kingdom toward […]

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Donald Trump
Will Trump's Iran moves Backfire, Enabling Hard Liners?

Will Trump’s Iran moves Backfire, Enabling Hard Liners?

By Reese Erlich | ( 48hills.org )- – In Washington DC, Trump’s moves against the Iran nuclear agreement are seen as getting tough on a […]

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Cold War
The Break-Up of America: Donald Trump and the Fourth Great Shattering

The Break-Up of America: Donald Trump and the Fourth Great Shattering

By John Feffer | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – When the historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., published his bestseller The Disuniting of America in 1991, […]

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Climate Change
Puerto Ricans Must Come First, Not Wall Street Vultures

Puerto Ricans Must Come First, Not Wall Street Vultures

By Maria Beri | (Inequality.org) | – – Every dollar going to one of the hedge funds that have bought up much of the island’s […]

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Solar Energy
Game over for Coal: Solar Power costs to plummet by 60% in coming Years

Game over for Coal: Solar Power costs to plummet by 60% in coming Years

TeleSur | – – “It’s not always the best strategy to try to protect your industry and have high prices in the long term” claims […]

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Fading ISIL in Syria lashes out, kills 128 in reprisals as Gov't takes back Town

Fading ISIL in Syria lashes out, kills 128 in reprisals as Gov’t takes back Town

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The so-called Islamic State group of Syria and Iraq, which locals call Daesh (in US, it […]

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Africa
Sen. Lindsey Graham surprised at US Troops in Niger?  He could have read Nick Turse

Sen. Lindsey Graham surprised at US Troops in Niger? He could have read Nick Turse

By Jon Queally, staff writer. | ( Commondreams.org) ” – – Graham Should Read More Nick Turse, TomDispatch, and Common Dreams. What U.S. Senators Don’t […]

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GCC
Kuwait, Terrified of Gulf Depression, Frantically Mediating Saudi-Qatar Crisis

Kuwait, Terrified of Gulf Depression, Frantically Mediating Saudi-Qatar Crisis

Nicolai Due-Gundersen | (The Conversation) | – – A blockade against Qatar by its Gulf neighbours is now in its fifth month. Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, […]

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