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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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Syria’s Aleppo Falling: The Government Russia actually Turned

Syria’s Aleppo Falling: The Government Russia actually Turned

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – By Monday morning Syrian time, the large and important district of Shaikh Saeed in southeastern Aleppo […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Palestinian East Jerusalem Vanishing: Israeli Strategy Exposed in New Video

Palestinian East Jerusalem Vanishing: Israeli Strategy Exposed in New Video

By IMEMC | – – A new video released by the Negotiations Affairs Department, titled “East Jerusalem: Israel’s Colonial Project Unraveled,” declares that Israel’s policy […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Jerusalem 1896: Incredible Footage of Jews, Muslims, Christians living under the Ottomans

Jerusalem 1896: Incredible Footage of Jews, Muslims, Christians living under the Ottomans

Nahda Productions | (Historic Video) | – – “Incredible footage of Palestine and Jerusalem from the year 1896. Muslims, Jews and Christians lived next to […]

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Authoritarianism
Life under the Junta: Deadly Explosion at Cairo’s Coptic Christian Cathedral Kills 25

Life under the Junta: Deadly Explosion at Cairo’s Coptic Christian Cathedral Kills 25

TeleSur | – – The Coptic cathedral explosion has reportedly killed 25 people and injured dozens more. A crowd gathered outside Cairo city’s biggest Coptic […]

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Displaced and Refugees
Why is the US at War in Yemen and will Trump Escalate?

Why is the US at War in Yemen and will Trump Escalate?

San Francisco ( Tomdispatch.com) | – The long national nightmare that was the 2016 presidential election is finally over. Now, we’re facing a worse terror: […]

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Energy
Is Bruited Sec. of State Tillerson allied with Iran & at war with Iraq?

Is Bruited Sec. of State Tillerson allied with Iran & at war with Iraq?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – A couple of years ago an oil tanker showed up off the Texas coast with cargo […]

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Iran
In Iran, Women’s militia Leader Demands Persecution Of Gender-Rights Activism

In Iran, Women’s militia Leader Demands Persecution Of Gender-Rights Activism

By Golnaz Esfandiari | ( RFE/RL) | – – Minou Aslani, head of the Women’s Basij organization in Iran, has condemned efforts to increase the […]

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Central Intelligence Agency
Those times the US meddled in other People’s Elections

Those times the US meddled in other People’s Elections

TeleSur | – – U.S. concern over alleged Russian foul play in this year’s election is ironic given decades of Washington’s deadly foreign intervention. Revelations […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Amnesty International calls on Israel to drop ‘baseless’ charges against activists

Amnesty International calls on Israel to drop ‘baseless’ charges against activists

Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Human rights organization Amnesty International released a statement Friday demanding Israel to drop the “baseless” charges […]

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