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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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Education
Now they hate Universities: Trumpie anti-Intellectualism infects GOP

Now they hate Universities: Trumpie anti-Intellectualism infects GOP

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – A new Pew poll finds that 58% of Republicans now say that colleges and universities have […]

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Israel/ Palestine
New UN Report Documents Legacy of 10-year Siege in Gaza

New UN Report Documents Legacy of 10-year Siege in Gaza

By IMEMC News | – – Most of the projections for 2020, on the situation in the Gaza Strip, have deteriorated further and faster than […]

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Employment
Uber Can be Fixed; and Mideast Women Need It

Uber Can be Fixed; and Mideast Women Need It

By Neslihan Cevik | (Informed Comment) | – – While in such metropolises as New York or Istanbul, Uber is most famous for hacking the […]

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Iraq
Rolex "Caliph" of ISIL Dead:  Syrian Observatory

Rolex “Caliph” of ISIL Dead: Syrian Observatory

TeleSur | – – Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s death has been widely speculated for months. Reports from the United Kingdom-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, SOHR, […]

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Top 5 Muslim-related Hypocrisies in the Donald Trump Jr. Russia Meeting

Top 5 Muslim-related Hypocrisies in the Donald Trump Jr. Russia Meeting

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The dishonesty and bad faith of Donald Trump’s Muslim ban and general pose of hating Muslims […]

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Israel/ Palestine
S. Africa ruling party will downgrade ties with Israel over Illegal Occupation

S. Africa ruling party will downgrade ties with Israel over Illegal Occupation

Ma’an News Agency | – – PRETORIA (Ma’an) — The African National Congress (ANC), the ruling party of South Africa, voted on Tuesday in favor […]

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Iraq
Can the Liberation of Mosul begin to free the Mideast from Fundamentalism?

Can the Liberation of Mosul begin to free the Mideast from Fundamentalism?

By Balsam Mustafa | (The Conversation) | – – After an offensive lasting nearly nine months, the Iraqi prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, walked through the […]

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Donald Trump
How Dangerous is Trump’s Flirtation with Violence?

How Dangerous is Trump’s Flirtation with Violence?

By Ian Buruma | (Project Syndicate) | – – NEW YORK – Some people might have dismissed Donald Trump’s recent tweet of a video clip […]

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Corruption
Hobby Lobby caught smuggling Iraqi Antiquities (TYT)

Hobby Lobby caught smuggling Iraqi Antiquities (TYT)

Cenk Uygur and Brett Erlich | (The Young Turks News Video) || – – “Hobby Lobby just got caught smuggling. Cenk Uygur and Brett Erlich, […]

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