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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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Eight Reasons Why Marco Rubio Would Be a Disastrous Secretary of State

Eight Reasons Why Marco Rubio Would Be a Disastrous Secretary of State

Code Pink ) – Of all Trump’s choices for his foreign policy team, Marco Rubio is the least controversial to the neoconservative foreign policy establishment […]

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

Afghanistan
How to Lose a War:  The Story of America’s Intervention in Afghanistan

How to Lose a War: The Story of America’s Intervention in Afghanistan

Review of Amin Saikal, “How to Lose a War: The Story of America’s Intervention in Afghanistan” (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2024). Munich, […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Israel-created Fuel Shortage in southern Gaza leaves 1.2 Million Civilians without Water

Israel-created Fuel Shortage in southern Gaza leaves 1.2 Million Civilians without Water

( Middle East Monitor ) – The southern Gaza city of Khan Younis warned Saturday that a week-long fuel shortage has left more than 1.2 […]

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Donald Trump
Seeds of Resistance: Reviving the Peace Movement in the Age of Trump

Seeds of Resistance: Reviving the Peace Movement in the Age of Trump

( Tomdispatch.com ) – When the election results came in on November 5th, I felt a pain in the pit of my stomach, similar to […]

William D. Hartung

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Morocco to double Green Energy in Sahara in anticipation of 2030 World Cup

Morocco to double Green Energy in Sahara in anticipation of 2030 World Cup

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The World Cup, disputed territory and green energy are three of the things that increasingly make the world go round, […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Ta-Nehisi Coates describes what he saw in Palestine as ‘Apartheid’, resembling America’s segregated Jim Crow South

Ta-Nehisi Coates describes what he saw in Palestine as ‘Apartheid’, resembling America’s segregated Jim Crow South

By Dennis Altman, La Trobe University | – In May 2023, renowned Black American writer Ta-Nehisi Coates spent ten days in the West Bank and […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
Project Esther: A Trumpian Blueprint to Crush anticolonial Resistance

Project Esther: A Trumpian Blueprint to Crush anticolonial Resistance

The Heritage Foundation strategy named after the biblical Jewish queen offers insights into the persecution those who oppose Zionism and white-supremacy will likely face in […]

Yoav Litvin

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Gaza as Israel’s AI-Driven High-Tech Genocide:  UN

Gaza as Israel’s AI-Driven High-Tech Genocide: UN

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A Special Committee of the United Nations Office of the High Commission on Human Rights has issued a new report […]

Juan Cole

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Medicare Advantage: A By-the-Numbers Look at This Profit-Seeking Healthcare Scam

Medicare Advantage: A By-the-Numbers Look at This Profit-Seeking Healthcare Scam

Proponents claimed it would lower costs and improve health care for seniors. It has achieved neither of those goals; instead, it has become a wildly […]

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