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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!)

12/17/2025 By Tomdispatch

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Displaced and Refugees
The El Fasher, Sudan, Massacre: Appeal for a UNHRC Special Session

The El Fasher, Sudan, Massacre: Appeal for a UNHRC Special Session

The Human Rights Council should convene a special session on the Sudan to address the situation in and around El Fasher, North Darfur

Human Rights Watch

Climate Crisis
How Wars ravage the Environment, and the Legal Response

How Wars ravage the Environment, and the Legal Response

Research demonstrates that the equivalent of over 32 million tonnes of CO₂ was generated in the first 15 months of the Gaza war.

The Conversation

Featured
On the Occasion of Dick Cheney’s Passing:  “All the Vice President’s Men”

On the Occasion of Dick Cheney’s Passing: “All the Vice President’s Men”

Dick Cheney and the Iraq War – was it about Oil? How Cheney coarsened American politics

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Democratic Socialists of America
Zohran Mamdani’s Proposals to Help New Yorkers Are Surprisingly Affordable

Zohran Mamdani’s Proposals to Help New Yorkers Are Surprisingly Affordable

It would be nice if all Revolutions were this Cheap! Mamdani’s proposals are eminently affordable

Common Dreams

BRICS
The Multipolarism of Fools: The BRICS are not the Answer

The Multipolarism of Fools: The BRICS are not the Answer

Trump depended on the Liberal Int’l Order he Despises

John Feffer

Donald Trump
Conflicting Visions of an International Force for Gaza in Istanbul and Washington

Conflicting Visions of an International Force for Gaza in Istanbul and Washington

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Two visions of the future of Gaza are congealing, in two different power centers. One is the Arab and Muslim […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Israel didn’t silence Palestinian Journalists Alone; We Helped

Israel didn’t silence Palestinian Journalists Alone; We Helped

  by Tony Rigopoulos A few days ago, in a full room at the opulent gardens of Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna — once home to […]

Middle East Monitor

Academic Freedom
Protesting U of Tennessee’s Firing of Professor Tamar Shirinian for Protected Speech

Protesting U of Tennessee’s Firing of Professor Tamar Shirinian for Protected Speech

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Letter to the Chancellor of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, denouncing the suspension pending […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

African-Americans
When Zohran Mamdani campaigned in Arabic, He was Speaking an old American Language

When Zohran Mamdani campaigned in Arabic, He was Speaking an old American Language

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani made a campaign ad in quite passable colloquial Arabic for the some 180,000 Arab residents of […]

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