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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 Rick Perry:  Would Teddy Roosevelt have extended Medicaid to all? (Poster)

Dear Rick Perry: Would Teddy Roosevelt have extended Medicaid to all? (Poster)

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States with Highest White Teen Births most Opposed to Obamacare

States with Highest White Teen Births most Opposed to Obamacare

[Some responses to this rather damning series have suggested that minority health statistics skew the averages. So in this map, we’ll just look at the […]

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Morsi provokes Constitutional Crisis in Egypt by recalling Parliament

Morsi provokes Constitutional Crisis in Egypt by recalling Parliament

Egyptian President Muhammad Morsi tried to steal third base on Sunday, announcing that he was calling back into session the dissolved Egyptian parliament. It would […]

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Top Ten Surprises on Libya’s Election Day

Top Ten Surprises on Libya’s Election Day

Most Western reporting on Libya is colored by what is in my view a combination of extreme pessimism and sensationalism. It has been suggested that […]

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States with Highest Infant Mortality Rates most Opposed to Obamacare

States with Highest Infant Mortality Rates most Opposed to Obamacare

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Voters in Libya:  Indescribable Joy, “Libya is Free”

Voters in Libya: Indescribable Joy, “Libya is Free”

Saturday morning, 2.8 million registered voters in Libya went to the polls to choose a parliament for the first time since 1965. One woman standing […]

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Omar Khayyam (492)  “What’s with your supposed zodiac?”

Omar Khayyam (492) “What’s with your supposed zodiac?”

What’s with your supposed zodiac, then, that it is so helpful to the nasty? It bestows on them palatial baths, and  mill works,  and long walkways to their mansions– […]

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Libya’s Elections Hold Vast Promise, Pose Hard Challenges

Libya’s Elections Hold Vast Promise, Pose Hard Challenges

Libya goes to the polls on Saturday for the first time since 1965. Since in that 1965 election parties were banned, and since King Idris’s […]

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States with fewest Passports most Opposed to Obamacare

States with fewest Passports most Opposed to Obamacare

Only about one third of Americans have passports, and if it weren’t for the post- September 11 requirement that one travel to Canada and Mexico […]

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