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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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While Saudi Arabia Goes to War Abroad, It’s Simmering at Home

While Saudi Arabia Goes to War Abroad, It’s Simmering at Home

By Giorgio Cafiero and Daniel Wagner | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | – To hear Saudi leaders tell it, the primary threat to the kingdom’s […]

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4 Million Syrian Displaced Abroad: ‘Biggest Refugee Population From a Single Conflict in a Generation’

4 Million Syrian Displaced Abroad: ‘Biggest Refugee Population From a Single Conflict in a Generation’

By Kanya D’Almeida | – – UNITED NATIONS, (IPS) – Barely 10 months ago, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said the refugee population from […]

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Hamas
What is terrorism? The Charleston massacre and Palestinian resistance

What is terrorism? The Charleston massacre and Palestinian resistance

By Heike Schotten | (Ma’an News Agency) | – Well before the advent of the US “War on Terror,” Edward Said wrote: “As a word […]

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Climate Change
Dirty Energy vs. Clean Power  The Past Battles the Future at Seneca Lake

Dirty Energy vs. Clean Power The Past Battles the Future at Seneca Lake

By Ellen Cantarow | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – Let’s amend the famous line from Joni Mitchell’s “Yellow Taxi” to fit this moment in the Finger […]

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African-Americans
South Carolina removes the Physical Flag: Can it remove the Spiritual Illness of Racial Discrimination?

South Carolina removes the Physical Flag: Can it remove the Spiritual Illness of Racial Discrimination?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The South Carolina legislature has voted to remove the Confederate flag from the grounds of the […]

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Apartheid
Amira Hass: “Let me be blunt: Gaza is a Huge Concentration Camp”

Amira Hass: “Let me be blunt: Gaza is a Huge Concentration Camp”

By Amira Hass / Julie Poucher Harbin | ( ISLAMICommentary) | – – by JULIE POUCHER HARBIN, EDITOR, ISLAMiCommentary Amira Hass, Haaretz correspondent for the […]

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Climate Change
Big Oil, Coal Racketeering:  Corp. Memos Reveal Decades of Climate Lies

Big Oil, Coal Racketeering: Corp. Memos Reveal Decades of Climate Lies

Union of Concerned Scientists | (Video Report) | – – “For nearly three decades, many of the world’s largest fossil fuel companies have knowingly worked […]

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Democratic Party
The Rear-View Mirror on Hillary Clinton’s Campaign Bus (Political Cartoon)

The Rear-View Mirror on Hillary Clinton’s Campaign Bus (Political Cartoon)

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Alevis
Why defeating ISIL/ Daesh with military might is starry eyed idealism

Why defeating ISIL/ Daesh with military might is starry eyed idealism

By David Alpher | (The Conversation) | – – Just this past weekend of July 4, US-led coalition aircraft targeted the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa […]

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