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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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No, It Wasn't Iran: Top 7 Reasons Baghdad took Kirkuk

No, It Wasn’t Iran: Top 7 Reasons Baghdad took Kirkuk

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Iraqi Army and its Shiite militia adjuncts have taken Kirkuk city and raised the Iraqi […]

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France's Macron slams Trump 'Bad Policy' by Mulling Iran Visit, Seeking Trade

France’s Macron slams Trump ‘Bad Policy’ by Mulling Iran Visit, Seeking Trade

TeleSur Macron’s visit to Iran would be the first by a French head of state or government since 1976. Widening transatlantic divisions are coming into […]

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Morocco’s Solar Power Revolution Sparks Jobs, High-Tech Investment

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Buddhism
Eyewitness: the Rohingya horrors and Aung San Suu Kyi's whitewash

Eyewitness: the Rohingya horrors and Aung San Suu Kyi’s whitewash

By Ellen Wiles< | (The Conversation) | - - It was a bright autumn morning, and I had just dropped off my two children at […]

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In Absence of US Leadership, War Breaks out between Kurds and Baghdad

In Absence of US Leadership, War Breaks out between Kurds and Baghdad

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The “Voice of Iraq” reports that last night artillery duels broke out between Iraqi army forces […]

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Nearly 300 dead in Somalia Terrorist Attack (largely ignored by US TV News)

Nearly 300 dead in Somalia Terrorist Attack (largely ignored by US TV News)

TeleSur | – – “In our 10-year experience as first responders in Mogadishu, we haven’t seen anything like this,” the Aamin Ambulance service posted on […]

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