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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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Protesting Flawed Disciplinary Process toward Student Protesters at Swarthmore

Protesting Flawed Disciplinary Process toward Student Protesters at Swarthmore

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Valerie Smith President Swarthmore College president@swarthmore.edu Dear President Smith and colleagues: We write on […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

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Conservative Muslim Cleric in North Gaza denounces Hamas for violating Islamic Laws of War

Conservative Muslim Cleric in North Gaza denounces Hamas for violating Islamic Laws of War

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Rushdi Abualouf of the BBC reported on a new fatwa or considered legal opinion issued by the conservative Salafi scholar […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Targeting UNRWA Could Harm Israel’s Own Interests

Targeting UNRWA Could Harm Israel’s Own Interests

srael is strengthening the case of those who question its international legitimacy

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Extreme Weather has already cost Vulnerable Island Nations $141 Billion

Extreme Weather has already cost Vulnerable Island Nations $141 Billion

Emily Wilkinson, ODI Global; Ilan Noy, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington; Matt Bishop, University of Sheffield, and Vikrant Panwar, ODI Global (The […]

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Donald Trump
Netanyahu, Delirious at Trump’s Return, Dumps his Defense Minister to Pursue Complete Occupation of Gaza

Netanyahu, Delirious at Trump’s Return, Dumps his Defense Minister to Pursue Complete Occupation of Gaza

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – It was no coincidence that Israeli PM Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu chose the US Election Day to fire […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Democratic Party
Gaza:   Harris lost because her Party represented War Mongering, Q.E.D.

Gaza: Harris lost because her Party represented War Mongering, Q.E.D.

( The Times of Israel) – My beloved grandmother Savta Greta z”l often liked to use the acronym “Q.E.D.”  – an abbreviation of the Latin […]

Shamai Leibowitz

Donald Trump
A New Age of Presidential Unilaterism?

A New Age of Presidential Unilaterism?

( Tomdispatch.com ) – As the dust settles over election day, it’s worth reflecting that it’s not only the election results that have been at […]

Karen J. Greenberg

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Germany: For First time, Wind and Solar Power Generation exceeds Fossil Fuels

Germany: For First time, Wind and Solar Power Generation exceeds Fossil Fuels

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Ember energy analysis firm reports that for the first nine months of 2024, Germany generated more electricity from wind […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Newly Elected Trump is Threatening to turn back the Tide on America’s environmental Laws and reverse Climate Progress

Newly Elected Trump is Threatening to turn back the Tide on America’s environmental Laws and reverse Climate Progress

By Stephen Lezak, University of Oxford and Barbara Haya, University of California, Berkeley | – The Cuyahoga River, which runs through downtown Cleveland, Ohio, used […]

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