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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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Deporting Dreamers will cost US $400 bn. over 10 Years

Deporting Dreamers will cost US $400 bn. over 10 Years

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump’s consiglieri, Jeff Sessions, came out yesterday to smear the some 800,000 young people in the […]

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Weathering the Violence of Climate Change

Weathering the Violence of Climate Change

By Gulrez Shah Azhar | (Project Syndicate) | – – SANTA MONICA – With India experiencing its worst drought in 140 years, Indian farmers have […]

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The rise and rise of Iran: How Tehran has become pivotal to the future of the Middle East

The rise and rise of Iran: How Tehran has become pivotal to the future of the Middle East

By Mohammed Nuruzzaman | (The Conversation) | – – Iran and the US are once again on a dangerous collision course. President Trump’s search for […]

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The only Winners around Trump are the People who messed up the Mideast

The only Winners around Trump are the People who messed up the Mideast

By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – It was bloody and brutal, a true generational struggle, but give them credit. In the end, […]

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“If he only had a Heart”: Trump as empty Kettle (Cartoon)

“If he only had a Heart”: Trump as empty Kettle (Cartoon)

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Have we Won yet? Was ISIL a flash in the Pan?

Have we Won yet? Was ISIL a flash in the Pan?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – With the Iraqi campaign against ISIL having wrested from it Mosul and Talafar, and with Hawija […]

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Do Muslim Americans need a Civil Rights Movement?

Do Muslim Americans need a Civil Rights Movement?

By Emily Cury | (The Conversation) | – – The past year has been a difficult one for American Muslims. According to a July 2017 […]

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Politics Above Law: How Trump channels Far Right icon Carl Schmitt without Knowing It

Politics Above Law: How Trump channels Far Right icon Carl Schmitt without Knowing It

By Andrew Kolin | (Informed Comment) | – –             Trump’s various public statements have made clear that he is not an avid reader. He […]

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Gaza: Over 1 million children in ‘unlivable’ circumstances

Gaza: Over 1 million children in ‘unlivable’ circumstances

By Jonathan Fenton-Harvey | (Informed Comment) | – – Over a million children in Gaza are living in impoverished circumstances due to electricity shortages, causing […]

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