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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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Gaza Yet Stands:  Juan Cole’s New Book

Gaza Yet Stands: Juan Cole’s New Book

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Many observers have complained that our understanding of the current Mideast War too often begins with the horrendous Hamas attacks […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Hamas at a crossroads: Sinwar’s death leaves a Vacuum; Israeli actions make it harder to fill with a Moderate

Hamas at a crossroads: Sinwar’s death leaves a Vacuum; Israeli actions make it harder to fill with a Moderate

By Mkhaimar Abusada, Northwestern University | – (The Conversation) – Hamas will soon begin the process of deciding who will next head the militant Palestinian […]

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Medicide: Israel’s Attacks on Clinics and Hospitals in Gaza are War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity: UN

Medicide: Israel’s Attacks on Clinics and Hospitals in Gaza are War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity: UN

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Earlier this month the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory issued a report demanding that […]

Juan Cole

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As Middle East Crisis Escalates, Hopes For Diplomatic Solution Dim

As Middle East Crisis Escalates, Hopes For Diplomatic Solution Dim

By Michael Scollon ( RFE/RL RFE/RL ) – Israel’s two-front war in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, as well as the threat of escalation with […]

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How Dangerous anti-Protest Laws can Silence the Climate Movement

How Dangerous anti-Protest Laws can Silence the Climate Movement

( ) – In August, climate activist and cellist John Mark Rozendaal was arrested and charged with criminal contempt for playing a few minutes of […]

Stan Cox

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The Yemen Model and Failed US Middle East Policy

The Yemen Model and Failed US Middle East Policy

Review of Alexandra Stark, “The Yemen Model: Why U.S. Policy Has Failed in the Middle East” (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2024). Munich, […]

Marc Martorell Junyent

Israel/ Palestine
With northern Gaza Desperate and Hungry, Israel’s Actions are shaking the World Order to its Core

With northern Gaza Desperate and Hungry, Israel’s Actions are shaking the World Order to its Core

By Tristan Dunning, Macquarie University; Martin Kear, University of Sydney; and Shannon Brincat, University of the Sunshine Coast | – (The Conversation) – While the […]

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Arms Sales
Time to look at history from the point of view of the arms industry?

Time to look at history from the point of view of the arms industry?

How did we end up in a situation where there is increasing talk of an emerging Third World War? A look back at a century […]

Anne-Ruth Wertheim

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If one Thing can Unite Sunnis and Shiites in Lebanon, it is Israeli Aggression

If one Thing can Unite Sunnis and Shiites in Lebanon, it is Israeli Aggression

Istanbul (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Prior to the recent Israeli attacks on Gaza and Lebanon, the popularity of Hezbollah, within and outside of […]

Mohamed Jegham

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