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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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Apartheid
Nearly all of Gaza's Water 'Undrinkable'

Nearly all of Gaza’s Water ‘Undrinkable’

By Celine Hagbard – (IMEMC) | – – Reporters from RT (Russia Today) traveled to Gaza to look into last year’s report that 90% of […]

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Colonialism
The lost fortunes of Palestine’s dynamic Ottoman-era merchants

The lost fortunes of Palestine’s dynamic Ottoman-era merchants

By Charlie Hoyle | (Ma’an News Agency) | – – The pink stone mansions hidden among the modern urban geography of Bethlehem —surrounded by an […]

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African-Americans
What if Kim Davis Refused to License Marriages of Inter-Racial Couples?

What if Kim Davis Refused to License Marriages of Inter-Racial Couples?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Kentucky court clerk Kim Davis was released from prison on Tuesday after having been jailed for […]

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Books
How Persian Literature shaped the culture of Iran and India

How Persian Literature shaped the culture of Iran and India

Sunil Sharma interviewed by Maryam Kamali | ( Iranian Medieval History) Sunil Sharma is the Associate Professor of Persianate and Comparative Literature at Boston University’s […]

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Militarization
How the Sept. 11 Attacks Changed American Lives Forever

How the Sept. 11 Attacks Changed American Lives Forever

By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.org) | – – Fourteen years later and do you even believe it? Did we actually live it? Are we […]

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Foreign Policy
Why Dick Cheney is just as wrong about Iran as he was about Iraq

Why Dick Cheney is just as wrong about Iran as he was about Iraq

By William Beeman | (Informed Comment) | – – There are so many lies in Dick Cheney’s address to the AEI that one hardly knows […]

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Authoritarianism
The 3000: Why have some Tunisians joined ISIL/Daesh in Syria?

The 3000: Why have some Tunisians joined ISIL/Daesh in Syria?

by Youssef Cherif | (Middle East Center Blog, LSE Political Science) | – – Tunisia, regarded as the Arab ‘beacon of hope’ and the cliché […]

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Apartheid
Israel plans to tear down 13,000 Palestinian Buildings in Palestine

Israel plans to tear down 13,000 Palestinian Buildings in Palestine

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has produced a report [pdf] in […]

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astronomy and outer space
Multiple views of Meteor Explosion over Bangkok

Multiple views of Meteor Explosion over Bangkok

Attila Nagy | (Video compilation) | – – “Several dashcams captured meteor entering Earth’s atmosphere and exploding over Bangkok, on the 7th of September, 2015.” […]

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