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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

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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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Mosul curses ISIL corpses: “Beguiled by promises of Virgins, you’re Garbage now”

Special Correspondent | (Mosul) | (Niqash.org) | – – NIQASH’s Mosul correspondent left the city shortly after the extremist Islamic State group took over. But […]

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Allies Furious as Trump w/draws from G7 Climate Commitment, May leave Paris Accord

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump bombed at the G7 summit in Italy. Despite an “intense” discussion with Germany, France and […]

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TeleSur | – – According to one witness, the suspect was heard saying “get off the bus, and get out of the country because you […]

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Dissent
Iraq Parliament Mulls ending Freedom of Assembly

Iraq Parliament Mulls ending Freedom of Assembly

By Afef Abrougui | ( Globalvoices.org) | – – When armed men in civilian clothes kidnapped journalist Afrah Shawqi from her home on 26 December […]

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Who are Egypt's Coptic Christians, ISIL's latest Victims?

Who are Egypt’s Coptic Christians, ISIL’s latest Victims?

By Paul Rowe | (The Conversation) | – – Coptic Christians in Egypt have been attacked while traveling on pilgrimages and bombed while praying on […]

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Donald Trump
Top 5 Questions about Kushner's back channel to Moscow

Top 5 Questions about Kushner’s back channel to Moscow

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – In a meeting with Sergey Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to the US, WaPo reveals that Jared […]

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Environment
Retraining Workers for Climate Action:  How the Light Gets In

Retraining Workers for Climate Action: How the Light Gets In

H. Patricia Hynes | (Informed Comment) | – – Every now and then I re-visit these lines of the Canadian poet and songwriter, Leonard Cohen: […]

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Far Right
Roger Ailes: The Man Who Destroyed the News

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By Neal Gabler | ( Billmoyers.com) | – – The founder of the right-wing network inflicted harm on the body politic that may be impossible […]

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Donald Trump
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By Rebecca Gordon | ( Tomdispatch.com | – – The Trump administration seems intent on tossing recent history down the memory hole. Admittedly, Americans have […]

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