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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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Dear Hillary Clinton:  When did not bombing Syria create Isis?

Dear Hillary Clinton: When did not bombing Syria create Isis?

By Fariborz S Fatemi Hillary Clinton’s criticism of Barack Obama on Syria and the rise of Isis is wrong, and an exercise in selective memory. […]

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Why Militarized Policing is the worst Response to Ferguson's Problems

Why Militarized Policing is the worst Response to Ferguson’s Problems

By Chris Cocking, University of Brighton The town of Ferguson, Missouri has now seen ten days of almost nightly disorder following the shooting of black […]

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What do Iraq's Sunni Arabs have in common with Ferguson, Mo. African-Americans?

What do Iraq’s Sunni Arabs have in common with Ferguson, Mo. African-Americans?

By Juan Cole If prime minister-designate Haydar al-Abadi in Iraq is to hope to defeat the so-called “Islamic State” (actually a kind of mafia made […]

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How effective will Erdogan be as Turkey's new President?

How effective will Erdogan be as Turkey’s new President?

By Mustafa Gurbuz The future of Turkey depends not only on Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ambitions but also strategies of the opposition parties, which have proven […]

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Iran Hard Liners denounce US Human Rights Abuses in Ferguson, Mo.

Iran Hard Liners denounce US Human Rights Abuses in Ferguson, Mo.

By Golnaz Esfandiari via RFE/RL The unrest in the U.S. state of Missouri sparked by the fatal police shooting of a black teenager is being […]

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The American Cult of Bombing

The American Cult of Bombing

By William J. Astore via Tomdispatch.com When you do something again and again, placing great faith in it, investing enormous amounts of money in it, […]

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Five things to Know about the Peshmerga Fighters of Iraqi Kurdistan

Five things to Know about the Peshmerga Fighters of Iraqi Kurdistan

AJ+ “The Peshmerga are seen as one of the only forces who can defeat the Islamic State group, formerly known as ISIS or ISIL. But […]

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ISIS to US:  We'll drown you in Blood; beheads US Journalist, Holds Tikrit

ISIS to US: We’ll drown you in Blood; beheads US Journalist, Holds Tikrit

By Juan Cole The Iraqi military made a push on Tikrit north of Baghdad on Tuesday, but had to call off their campaign when they […]

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How America made Martyrs of two Iranian Democrats and overthrew Iran's Liberal Government in 1953

How America made Martyrs of two Iranian Democrats and overthrew Iran’s Liberal Government in 1953

By Farhad Malekafzali August 19 is the anniversary of the 1953 CIA-MI6 coup in Iran. The coup overthrew a government with a remarkable commitment to […]

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