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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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Bernie Sanders' 10,000-person crowd in Madison biggest of any Candidate so Far

Bernie Sanders’ 10,000-person crowd in Madison biggest of any Candidate so Far

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Democratic Party’s left wing is fed up and isn’t going to take it any more. […]

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Arab Spring
Syria: When al-Assad Regime shuts off Internet, State Violence Spikes

Syria: When al-Assad Regime shuts off Internet, State Violence Spikes

By Sarah Myers West | (Electronic Frontier Foundation) | – – EFF has noted and protested when authorities deliberately cut off Internet access in times […]

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Apartheid
Israelis Detain, expel Former Pres. of Tunisia from Gaza Aid Flotilla; he vows to return

Israelis Detain, expel Former Pres. of Tunisia from Gaza Aid Flotilla; he vows to return

By IMEMC | – – Israeli occupation authorities deported to France, late on Monday, former Tunisian president Moncef al-Marzouqi, who took part in Freedom Flotilla […]

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Entertainment
Daily Show Iraq: Ahmed Albasheer Fights ISIL/ Daesh With Comedy

Daily Show Iraq: Ahmed Albasheer Fights ISIL/ Daesh With Comedy

AJ+ | (Video Report) – – “Every week, millions of people tune in to watch Iraqi comedian Ahmed Albasheer lampoon ISIL on his version of […]

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African-Americans
If ISIL had burned down 4 Churches, it would have been Headline News

If ISIL had burned down 4 Churches, it would have been Headline News

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Seven African-American churches have burned down in the past week and at least four of these […]

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Authoritarianism
2 Years after Coup, will Assassination of Egypt's Att'y General be Pretext for More Repression?

2 Years after Coup, will Assassination of Egypt’s Att’y General be Pretext for More Repression?

By MariaGloria Polimeno | (The Conversation) | – – Hisham Barakat, Egypt’s most senior prosecutor, has been killed by a car bomb that hit his […]

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Barack Obama
Demonizing as Policy:  Washington Elites divided over which state to declare Enemy No. 1

Demonizing as Policy: Washington Elites divided over which state to declare Enemy No. 1

By Michael T. Klare | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – America’s grand strategy, its long-term blueprint for advancing national interests and countering major adversaries, is in […]

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Colonialism
Michael Oren, Neo-Orientalism and the Ghost of Edward Said

Michael Oren, Neo-Orientalism and the Ghost of Edward Said

By Daniel Brumberg | (Informed Comment) | – – Poor Edward Said cannot rest in peace. Twelve years after he passed away from cancer, his […]

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The Great Wall of Turkey? Ankara imagines DMZ w/ Kurds, ISIL

The Great Wall of Turkey? Ankara imagines DMZ w/ Kurds, ISIL

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – So I am going to tell you a story about Turkey, Syria and the United States. […]

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