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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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Iran
Rouhani: forget Geopolitics: Iran's real Enemies are Water & jobs Shortages & Drugs

Rouhani: forget Geopolitics: Iran’s real Enemies are Water & jobs Shortages & Drugs

By RFE/RL | – – – Iran’s President Hassan Rohani has warned that water shortages, unemployment, inflation, and problems like drug addiction are threatening the […]

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Apartheid
Activists strip against Israeli separation wall in Bethlehem

Activists strip against Israeli separation wall in Bethlehem

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Several foreign activists stripped bare near the Israeli separation wall in the city of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank in refusal […]

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Pope Francis Endorses Iran Deal:  Another Dilemma for GOP Catholic Candidates

Pope Francis Endorses Iran Deal: Another Dilemma for GOP Catholic Candidates

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Republican presidential candidates are virtually unanimous that human-caused climate change is a hoax and burning […]

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Arab Americans
Islam Hysteria:  14 yr old Muslim Student Invents Digital Clock, is Arrested

Islam Hysteria: 14 yr old Muslim Student Invents Digital Clock, is Arrested

The Dallas Morning News | (Video Interview with Ahmad Mohamed) | – – “Ahmed Mohamed, 14, an Irving MacArthur High student who invents as a […]

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Displaced and Refugees
Favoring Christian over Muslim refugees is bad for everyone

Favoring Christian over Muslim refugees is bad for everyone

By Sarah Hackett | (The Conversation) | – – The unfolding refugee crisis has been marked by stories of displacement, violence and despair. There have […]

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Barack Obama
Obama as Grandmaster of Grand Strategy: Containing China

Obama as Grandmaster of Grand Strategy: Containing China

By Alfred W. McCoy | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – In ways that have eluded Washington pundits and policymakers, President Barack Obama is deploying a subtle […]

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Islam
Ashrawi: "Israel is provoking a global holy war" over Aqsa

Ashrawi: “Israel is provoking a global holy war” over Aqsa

By IMEMC News | – – PLO Executive Committee Member Dr. Hanan Ashrawi met with [British Consul General to Jerusalem] Dr. Alastair McPhail at the […]

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Egypt
Mexican Tour Organizers, Buddhist Healers, Baffled by Egyptian Army Attack

Mexican Tour Organizers, Buddhist Healers, Baffled by Egyptian Army Attack

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Gabriela Bejarano Rangel, the sister and daughter of the Mexican organizers of the tour to Egypt […]

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Culture
Andrew Garfield of Spiderman:  Trump 'has a lot,' Unwelcoming of those with Little

Andrew Garfield of Spiderman: Trump ‘has a lot,’ Unwelcoming of those with Little

Popsugar Entertainment | (Video Interview with Andrew Garfield) | – – “Andrew Garfield spent hours with families who’d lost their homes in the foreclosure crisis […]

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