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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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In the shadow of Trump, a DAPL Victory and Global Protests against Fossil Fuels

In the shadow of Trump, a DAPL Victory and Global Protests against Fossil Fuels

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The surprise announcement Sunday by the Army Corps of Engineers that they will not permit the […]

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Donald Trump
All the President's Men:  The Warmongering Washington Blob is Back

All the President’s Men: The Warmongering Washington Blob is Back

By John Feffer | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – Shortly after taking office in 1969, President Richard Nixon devised his “madman theory.” It […]

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Under BDS Pressure, G4S Ends Most Illegal Business with Israel

Under BDS Pressure, G4S Ends Most Illegal Business with Israel

IMEMC | – – Human rights campaigners to intensify pressure against the company… *G4S announces sale of most of its Israel business, following intense BDS […]

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Barack Obama
Nine Things Obama Could Do Before Leaving to blunt the National Security State

Nine Things Obama Could Do Before Leaving to blunt the National Security State

By Pratap Chatterjee | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – In less than seven weeks, President Barack Obama will hand over the government to Donald […]

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Why Trump & his Cabinet's Jihad against "Political Islam" will Fail

Why Trump & his Cabinet’s Jihad against “Political Islam” will Fail

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Several members of Donald Trump’s new team, including National Security Adviser Mike Flynn and proposed Secretary […]

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Antisemitism
IfNotNow’s ‘Jewish Day of Resistance’ against Trump and appointees

IfNotNow’s ‘Jewish Day of Resistance’ against Trump and appointees

By Sarah Aziza | (Waging Nonviolence) | – – Demonstrators gathered in over 30 U.S. cities last Wednesday as part of a “Jewish Day of […]

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Climate Change
Denialist GOP House "Science Committee" Retweets Fake News Breitbart

Denialist GOP House “Science Committee” Retweets Fake News Breitbart

Deirdre Fulton, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org ) | – – Committee’s tweet comes during hottest year on record. Displaying a troubling disregard for science, […]

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Russian Pundit:  Fall of East Aleppo a Geopolitical Turning Point toward Multi-polar World

Russian Pundit: Fall of East Aleppo a Geopolitical Turning Point toward Multi-polar World

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – By Friday evening outside observers like Rami Abdelrahman of the Syria Observatory in the UK were […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Occupation economically suffocates Palestinian East Jerusalem

Israeli Occupation economically suffocates Palestinian East Jerusalem

By: Al-Shabaka | (Ma’an News Agency) | – – In an unusual move, and after years of neglect, American and European delegations and development agencies […]

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