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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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I was Arrested at Columbia University in 1968: I am Cheering on the Students of Today

I was Arrested at Columbia University in 1968: I am Cheering on the Students of Today

New York (Special to Informed Comment) – Earlier this week Columbia University started suspending the students who refused to leave the encampment they built to […]

Bob Stein

Featured
This is Why the Students are Protesting: Eyes on Israel's Killing Fields in Gaza

This is Why the Students are Protesting: Eyes on Israel’s Killing Fields in Gaza

Bayreuth, Germany (Special to Informed Comment- Feature) – Lisa Hajjar has compared what is happening in Gaza to the Killing Fields of Cambodia. Yet where […]

Janelle Carlson

Israel/ Palestine
Birding in Gaza amid a Nightmare of War

Birding in Gaza amid a Nightmare of War

( Tomdispatch.com ) – He’s a funny little chap: a sharp dresser with a sleek grey jacket, a white waistcoat, red shorts, and a small […]

Rebecca Gordon

Anti-intellectualism
“Intifada” in Arabic just means Uprising or Mass Protest; it is used for the Jewish Warsaw Uprising

“Intifada” in Arabic just means Uprising or Mass Protest; it is used for the Jewish Warsaw Uprising

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A key feature of American bigotry toward people from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and toward Muslims more […]

Juan Cole

Children
Israeli Violence against Palestinian Children is rooted in Viewing them all as Dangerous Adults

Israeli Violence against Palestinian Children is rooted in Viewing them all as Dangerous Adults

Written by Safa     A playground in the West Bank. Picture taken by Justin McIntosh, August 2004. Wikimedia Commons. (CC-BY-2.0). ( Globalvoices.org ) – Since […]

Global Voices

Displaced and Refugees
What Causes Famines?  In Gaza and Elsewhere, Outside Pressure and Vulnerability can lead to Hunger and Death

What Causes Famines? In Gaza and Elsewhere, Outside Pressure and Vulnerability can lead to Hunger and Death

By Paul Howe, Tufts University | – The United Nations’ latest report on hunger makes for grim reading. On April 24, 2024, the international body […]

The Conversation

Democratic Party
Hubert Humphrey Redux? Biden is Risking Election and Country with his Embrace of Netanyahu's War

Hubert Humphrey Redux? Biden is Risking Election and Country with his Embrace of Netanyahu’s War

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – CNN reports ominously this week that “Biden is actually 11 percentage points behind Trump among young voters 18-34 in a […]

Juan Cole

Genocide
The World concludes that Israeli Lies Smeared the Main Aid Agency helping Starving Palestinians as “Terrorists”

The World concludes that Israeli Lies Smeared the Main Aid Agency helping Starving Palestinians as “Terrorists”

By Binoy Kampmark ( Middle East Monitor ) – The Israeli authorities, in their campaign of remorseless killing, doctoring and adjusting the numbers of the […]

Middle East Monitor

Genocide
Netzah Yehuda: the ‘Violent and Aggressive’ IDF unit the US is Thinking of Sanctioning

Netzah Yehuda: the ‘Violent and Aggressive’ IDF unit the US is Thinking of Sanctioning

Israel War Crimes

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