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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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Inside the Trump Administration’s Man-Made Hunger Crisis

Inside the Trump Administration’s Man-Made Hunger Crisis

12/18/2025 By ProPublica

Trump Administration Concedes U.S. Researchers may Talk with Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur  on Palestine, Despite Sanctions

Trump Administration Concedes U.S. Researchers may Talk with Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on Palestine, Despite Sanctions

12/18/2025 By Middle East Studies Association

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Denying ISIL Legitimacy and the problem of Radical Returnees

Denying ISIL Legitimacy and the problem of Radical Returnees

By Akil N. Awan via The National Interest Last week, President Barack Obama chaired a special meeting of the UN Security Council in which member […]

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Palestine goes to UN Security Council to Demand Israeli Withdrawal by 2016

Palestine goes to UN Security Council to Demand Israeli Withdrawal by 2016

By Juan Cole AP reports that Palestine is presenting a resolution to the United Nations Security Council (through its “Arab Group”) calling for a complete […]

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Iran
Netanyahu's Nuclear Hypocrisy on Iran; In fact, Everyone in the ME needs to Disarm

Netanyahu’s Nuclear Hypocrisy on Iran; In fact, Everyone in the ME needs to Disarm

By Farhad Malekafzali With negotiations to limit Iran’s enrichment in return for easing of economic sanctions on the verge of failure, hopes for a step-by-step […]

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Failure Is Success:  How American Intelligence Works in the Twenty-First Century

Failure Is Success: How American Intelligence Works in the Twenty-First Century

By Tom Engelhardt [Note for TomDispatch Readers: My new book, Shadow Government: Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single-Superpower World (with […]

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Barack Obama
Drone Strikes as much an Obama Legacy as Health Care:  John Oliver

Drone Strikes as much an Obama Legacy as Health Care: John Oliver

John Oliver “The United States has launched a huge number of drone strikes under President Obama. It’s widely accepted and extremely terrifying” Last Week Tonight […]

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$22 Billion to Fight ISIL in same Year Congress cut $8.7 bn in Food Stamps

$22 Billion to Fight ISIL in same Year Congress cut $8.7 bn in Food Stamps

By Juan Cole It was all the way back in February, so the memory of this headline has faded: ” Congress passes $8.7 billion food […]

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Human Rights
The Other Iraq Reality: Shiite Militias besieging Sunni Towns

The Other Iraq Reality: Shiite Militias besieging Sunni Towns

By Erin Evers, HRW Shia militias, still operating under the control of former Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, are laying siege to Latifiyya, especially the Asa’ib […]

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Christians
Tony Blair obsessed with Religious "Crusade" against Iraq, like Bush: Former British Dep'ty PM

Tony Blair obsessed with Religious “Crusade” against Iraq, like Bush: Former British Dep’ty PM

Channel 4 News: “Former deputy prime minister John Prescott calls his ex boss Tony Blair a ‘crusader’ because of Blair’s recent calls to send troops […]

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Pretext for US Syria Bombings?:  No sign that Dread "Khorasan" Group even Exists

Pretext for US Syria Bombings?: No sign that Dread “Khorasan” Group even Exists

AJ+ Imran Khan “The Khorasan Group: The U.S. government insists it’s one of the biggest threats facing the country. But until a couple of weeks […]

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