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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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Israel/ Palestine
Palestinians Count The Toll Of Israel’s Devastating War In Gaza

Palestinians Count The Toll Of Israel’s Devastating War In Gaza

By Iliya Jazaeri ( RFE/ RL) Muhammad Nasser’s life was torn apart after Hamas, the U.S.- and EU-designated Palestinian terrorist group, carried out an unprecedented […]

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Arab World
Can the West ever Humanize the Arabs?

Can the West ever Humanize the Arabs?

by Hissa Al Thani ( Middle East Monitor ) – To be humanised is to be recognised as worthy of life, respect and the fundamental […]

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The Great Babylon: America’s complicity in Gaza Atrocities

The Great Babylon: America’s complicity in Gaza Atrocities

Orono, Maine (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Yesterday, I interviewed a refugee Ukrainian family in transition from their homeland looking for a permanent place […]

Hugh J. Curran

Israel/ Palestine
Israel is using surveillance Technology to subjugate and target Palestinians

Israel is using surveillance Technology to subjugate and target Palestinians

Written by Safa Hebron’s Al-Shuhada Street checkpoint with at least 8 CCTV cameras and the Smart Shooter in view. Photo by AV, used with permission. […]

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Displaced and Refugees
Cross-Border Refuges: Cyclical Displacement between Lebanon and Syria

Cross-Border Refuges: Cyclical Displacement between Lebanon and Syria

By Jasmin Lilian Diab, Lebanese American University | – (The Conversation) – The escalation of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah since September 2024, and Israel’s […]

The Conversation

China
China’s Green Energy Wave enters the Middle East

China’s Green Energy Wave enters the Middle East

London (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Facing rising trade barriers and diplomatic tensions with the US and the EU, Chinese renewable energy companies are […]

Neil Thompson

Israel/ Palestine
Israel’s War on the World

Israel’s War on the World

( Code Pink ) – Each new week brings new calamities for people in the countries neighboring Israel, as its leaders try to bomb their […]

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

Climate Crisis
Climate Change and the Missing War on Poverty

Climate Change and the Missing War on Poverty

( Tomdispatch.com) – It was William Shakespeare who, in Troilus and Cressida, wrote, “One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” And yet, in […]

Liz Theoharis

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The Gazafication of Lebanon: Israel Blows up Nabatieh City Hall, kills Mayor and Aid Workers

The Gazafication of Lebanon: Israel Blows up Nabatieh City Hall, kills Mayor and Aid Workers

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli military has begun giving southern Lebanon the Gaza treatment. Some 25% of Lebanese are under “evacuation orders,” which […]

Juan Cole

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